Wendy Liebman Quotes

I really enjoy connecting with the audience.

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

I want to keep people engaged and I want them to feel connected to what I'm doing.

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.

My goal's always to connect and relate to my audience. I want them to leave my show feeling like they got to know me better - not only that, but like we could be friends. I want people to leave going, 'Oh my gosh, I could totally hang out with her!'

I always like to have some type of connection with the crowd.

You can generate a phenomenal relationship with an audience. It's very gratifying, a real privilege.

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.

I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.

There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

I'd like to think my performance is today. I never try to - it's so, as you know, watching me, I have a beginning, middle and ending. But every night the show changes and I relate to an audience and I relate to the young people.

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

There is always something wonderful about a live audience.

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.