It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.
If you outsmart your audience, you're going to lose them.
You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.
You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.
If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.
I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.
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 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.
Audiences can be very judgmental.
You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.