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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.
I've heard people say, 'There are no bad audiences,' but that's just not true. There are people who just shouldn't be together in a room, who produce a really bad audience.
But you can't really know your audiences so well.
The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.
I don't want to be above my audience; I want to be one with my audience.
But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.
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 only be as good as you dare to be bad.
Somebody has to be on stage, and some people have to be in the audience. That's the only difference. Don't put any thought as to why you are on the stage or how you need to be 'better' than the people in the audience. You aren't better. You're simply the speaker.