It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.
“I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.”
“My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and that we are our brother's keeper.”