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a live audience. A comedy in a movie theatre can seem much funnier when other people are laughing, same for stand-up. When you watch a comic on television performing in front of a live audience, you'll notice the audience is laughing a lot - but you - maybe not so much. If you're alone you may not laugh much at all, but add a few friends, you'll start laughing more. I saw Robert Klein many years ago live, with friends, and we laughed almost non-stop for two hours. If I had watched the same performance on TV, by myself, I wouldn't have been laughing so hard. Nowadays, we tend to watch our movies in our own living rooms, where there's no audience to laugh along with us.
