In what ways do a comedian's performances get influenced by their audience?

Question

When doing stand-up, to what extent does the audience’s reaction impact the success of the jokes or bits?

Answer 1

About comedy and profanity: I think too often, mediocre comedians use profanity as a “crutch” and that gifted comedic talent have enough skill to be funny as hell without excessive profanity, especially those that can be funny while exploring the “darkness”.  

My speed is Zoltan Kaszas, Anjelah Johnson, Michael McIntyre, Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias, Jimmy O Yang, Jo Koy, Michael Yo, Alex Velluto, Jim Gaffigan, and Bryan Regan, to name a few.

Answer 2

I took a lot of acid in high school, and loved renting weird stuff from Blockbuster, listening to Dr. Octagon, and turning the TV on late at night on TNT and reading weird stuff like Beastmaster or Puppet Master. The world seemed like a huge weird place and I was really inspired by that. Tom's new shows on Netflix is so god damn delightful, Tim and Eric are looking up from Hell and smiling, thank you Tom Segura for keeping the dream alive (and doing the young Chinese girl voice)

Answer 3

Andrew. Please please consider having a conversation with Sadhguru and/or Satya Ji. I feel that exploration of the Yogic sciences is underrepresented in your catalog and would undoubtedly be immensely beneficial for your audience. I couldn't possibly think of two better individuals to explore those topics with than Sadhguru and Satya Ji. These topics are so much more practical and grounded in reality than most people realize, and would actually be perfect additions to your work towards science and public health education. Considering your close friendship with Rick Rubin, I feel strongly that this would be a wonderful and gainful coming together of beautiful minds. Love you man and keep up the amazing work!

Answer 4

Please have Dr. Heidi Haavik on your show! She is AMAZING! Great speaker, very knowledgeable, energetic & passionate about her research! She is a chiropractor and has a PhD in neurophysiology. Look her up and please have her on!

Answer 5

Thanks for the interview. The guest was very nice and knowledgeable but I feel Huberman made it more like a conversation about likes dislikes and opinions between friends on this one missing the chance to really provide information and skill sets to the reader.

Answer 6

If you wanna move in, you can move in.

Answer 7

Yeah always wondered about the involuntary, bursting out, uncontrolable laugh. Hopefully will find answers here! Thx

Answer 8

Huberman out here interviewing sociopaths lol

Answer 9

OMG my favorite cousins! Big fan of you both and can’t wait to see you in Akron Tom!

Answer 10

This was unexpected but appreciated! Cant wait to read this later!
Would also love to see huberman do an episode with theo von !

Answer 11

Excellent episode and excellent choice of beverage, Tom!

Answer 12

Very enjoyable conversation to listen to. First huberman lab podcast I didn't have to pause & rewind. It's great to see Andrew mix it up with the guests and find out even more about his interests. I'm a huge fan and I've learned so much from this podcast.

Answer 13

Two Cousins One Lab

Answer 14

Dr. Segura

Answer 15

I listened to the podcast and loved it! It was great finding out these two are related! ❤️

Answer 16

Please enable the auto audio generator feature in Hindi for viewers too. It’ll make the content more accessible for a larger audience in India.

Answer 17

How cool is this?? I put this in the suggestion box a few months ago, the science of comedy with Tom Segura and here it is! Both of these guys remind me of each other and here it turns out they’re related love it! Thanks for another great episode

Answer 18

Tom doing his best to be human.

Answer 19

LMFAO my wife choosed his series yesterday, he reminded me of you Andrew, and today you have content about him

Answer 20

I’m a big fan of both of these guys. Why not try something a bit different? Bravo.