Comedian attacked onstage at South Carolina comedy club. Where was security?
All I keep asking while watching this footage is simply: Where is the club’s security staff?...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“The Joke,” a cartoon by Jim Benton
Award-winning cartoonist Jim Benton published this six-panel strip this week, “The...
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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,...
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Jimmy Carr: Gagging Order, at #JFLMTL 2014
All of the shows at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival begin first with a pre-recorded...
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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...
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Hey Hartford, hey America, hey world! Pipe down and let Dave Chappelle do his thing!
This is why we cannot have nice things? If you love Dave Chappelle and you miss seeing him on your...
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Global Comment on one comedian’s two rape jokes, and that comedian’s response
Comedians used to complain about performing in any comedy club that put comment cards on the...
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