Comedian attacked onstage at South Carolina comedy club. Where was security?
by All I keep asking while watching this footage is simply: Where is the club’s security staff? Why isn’t anyone breaking this up? How is this …
Tag: hecklers
Benny Feldman uses his Tourette’s to heckle himself onstage
Benny Feldman is a clever young comedian from the Philadelphia area who has opened for multiple headliners when they’ve come through the City of Brotherly …
Comics Come Home 22 exposes divisiveness of audiences to political comedy in 2016
Denis Leary isn’t afraid of being an asshole. It’s the title of his longtime hit comedy single, and Leary has even updated it with the …
Watch Chaotic Moon’s heckler-destroying robot from Moontower
I told you last week that the audiences at the 2016 Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin loved the pre-show videos that screened before every live …
Open mic host kicks open micer to ground during Las Vegas show
No sooner do I announce once more my desire to avoid posting heckler videos — because it’s my firm belief that sharing and spreading videos …
Audience interactions and crowd work gone awry: Is the customer always right?
Stand-up comedians need an audience to laugh at their jokes and pay for their services. Comedy clubs provide a direct conduit for both, and need …
“The Joke,” a cartoon by Jim Benton
Award-winning cartoonist Jim Benton published this six-panel strip this week, “The Joke,” that’s really more about the audience acting as pre-emptive comedy police by heckling …
Lewis Black on staying ahead of the curve, interacting with fans through his special “The Rant Is Due” shows
You think going back to school is tough for your kids. Lewis Black isn’t happy about it, either. “School’s starting and you’re already behind. I …
Jimmy Carr: Gagging Order, at #JFLMTL 2014
All of the shows at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival begin first with a pre-recorded announcement for audience members to check in using social media, …
Revisiting Louis C.K.’s “Heckler” story from FX’s Louie #tbt
It has been a week since a crowd of thousands near Hartford heckled Dave Chappelle with shouts of appreciation and misbegotten requests, derailing his planned …