Andrew Scott
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There's no better atmosphere or there's no more attentive atmosphere than when you think somebody has made a mistake.
The whole audience is like, oh my God, something's happening here, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And the actor's fear is that, oh my God, everybody's going to think I'm a terrible person.
But actually what I think the audiences feel is it reminds them that they've remembered all the other lines.
Oh God, this is, this is sort of live.
And once you get over that idea of we making a mistake, if you know, like otherwise, like, you know, the weird stuff that happens makes it, you know, makes the day the day, you know what I mean?
And I always think it's weird as well.
Do you like in comedy, do you feel like you guys, um,
dissect the audience as much as we like we do in the theater oh used to yeah yeah i mean i would be uh and we'll get to this because uh you know we'll be talking about this a little later in the interview but it's like the way a um meteorologist dissects a weather system i used to
you know, tonight, tonight you're pretty good.
Now I felt like they were, and then you get to be like someone who studied wine all their life and you've just sipped some wine instead of being like, oh my God, I love, this is a great, I'm here in Tuscany.
I just had a great sipper of, you know, of Pinot Noir.
The audience, when I first came out, they were, ah, yeah, no, you know what, there's enthusiasm, but it's kind of a froth.
It's not, now then I would say on the upper right hand of the, I couldn't get them.
There was sort of a tentativeness, but then I felt like,
And they were a little judgmental, you know, and you're like, shut up.