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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.
I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.
You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.
I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.