David Dobkin Quotes

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

Just because you're laughing, it doesn't mean the audience will, necessarily.

Audience laughter, when it's deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.

I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.

There are these showcase clubs where 14 guys will go on in a row and people are laughing at everything, and I'm like - 'I can't laugh that much. That's so weird to me.'

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

The thing with the comedian is you can make all the jokes you want and not every joke it going to be a winner, and not every joke is going to land, there'll be some that somebody doesn't laugh at, but that's just part of the deal.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.

The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

I think it's awesome to be able to make people laugh.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.