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By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.

— Emmett Kelly

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

— Twyla Tharp

And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.

— Todd Barry

Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.

— Lorraine Bracco

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

— Judy Garland

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

— Kelly Bishop

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute - I've got to have them.

— Ken Dodd

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

— Joe Rogan

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist.

— Jeff Dunham

✗Opposing Perspectives

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.

— Tommy Lee Jones