You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.
The majority of my audience has always been women.
With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.
A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.
If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.
You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.