The World Motivation
With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.
“With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.”
— Rik Mayall · Audience
With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.
Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.
London audiences are the most challenging around - it's a group of such diverse strangers.
Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.
I'm frightened of interviews.
What's challenging is to surprise the audience.
Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.
There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
People questioned if there was enough audience to sustain a major league, high-production value, second wrestling company, nationally, weekly. I think we've shown there is, there isn't any question now.
My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.