Aubrey Plaza Quotes

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

The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

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

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

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.'

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.

The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job. I've had some audiences where I didn't care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid.

Comedy can be more difficult than drama. It requires more attention to timing. In the theater, you're always dependent on the audience for the energy, but in comedy the feedback you get is more important. You can judge by the quickness and the length of the laugh just where you stand with the audience.

When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.

I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'

I've actually never done standup before.

I think you develop strong instincts when you're a comedian. You have to pay your bills by making people laugh every six seconds... or not. I had to do that for 22 years.

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

As a comic, you are trying to please people in some way - to make them laugh.

Comedy is not about appearance; it's about rockin' a mike. Are they laughing? That's the only test.