When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing.
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Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have basically a thousand people in a room together that can laugh at the same time, but I think of it almost as, like, a religious experience.
It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.
Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.
It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.
Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.
Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke.
Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.
A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.