Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience.

Being a professional comedian is doing it right and good, when you don't feel like it.

Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.

You must study their deliveries, their use of their bodies, their timing, and their use of audio and vocal effects.

It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are.

When I've mentioned things that I thought only happened to me, or thoughts that I felt had only had crossed my mind, the audience response indicated that they seemed to have happened to, or been thought of by many people.

I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that's the reason you're doing television - to get them to come see you in a nightclub.