John Hodgman Quotes

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.

We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.

Also I can come up with new bits - people yell stuff out and it's a new subject or a subject that I've been thinking about that I haven't done onstage yet and I'll just run with it.

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

I do a lot of talking, playing with the audience, but I don't really know what that's going to be. Somebody kind of feeds me cold. He gives me these kind of cold games that I play with the audience or quizzes that I do with them.

I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren't hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they're excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

In our show we know, if we're not getting a response, you see it in our face... we either do something to get a laugh, or the audience is in on it with us.

I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd.

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

When it comes to being on stage, I might be on stage one minute and the next minute I might be in the audience, dancing and lifting people's spirits.

I love working in front of American crowds.

I just love engaging a live audience - I love that.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.