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heckling in comedy clubs....

chico enrico said:
But the OP is talking about going to see Jimmy Carr. :mad: Anyone who pays good money to see that prick deserves to have their night 'spolied'. You wouldn't say folk shouldn't demonstrate against a Ku Klux Klan rally because you'd be spoiling the fun of the folk in white sheets and pointy hats?

I think Carr would be well good to heckle. You can just tell he's not got any experience of playing to 'un-refined' crowds and, not having one ounce of wit or spontaniety in his body, he'll get unnerved and lose the rag real easy. :D
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Have you seen Jimmy carr do Stand up yourself?
 
He's been around a long time. I'm sure he's verrrrry experienced with all sorts of hecklers.
And in fact he seems the type who'll have a very funny pre-prepared put down for anything you can come up with.
I'm interested to hear the results!
 
I like heckling. Making people laugh for money is an incredibly difficult thing, far too many shit ones out there and deserve to be heckled off, they either get better or stop. The best comics are ones that are thinking bring it on. If they are good they can take it.

Lee Hurst for instance, don't heckle him unless you want to become part of the nights entertainment.
 
I hate heckling. Even if you're mildly amusing, you're still just disrupting the whole fucking thing. I didn't come here to listen to some bloke in the audience.
 
My mate used to do a bit of stand-up and I asked him what his favourite line for tackling hecklers was. He said the one that worked best was:

"I don't come to your place of work and knock the sailors' cocks out of your mouth!" ;)
 
missfran said:
I hate heckling. Even if you're mildly amusing, you're still just disrupting the whole fucking thing. I didn't come here to listen to some bloke in the audience.
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But if the comic is any good they'll run with it and make the whole epxperience a bit more spontaneous

I saw some poor bloke trying to heckle mark thomas and tbh up until then he'd been a bit dull and formulaic - once he had the heckler to bounce off he was funny. The heckler was utterly shit though - maybe that helped
 
seeformiles said:
My mate used to do a bit of stand-up and I asked him what his favourite line for tackling hecklers was. He said the one that worked best was:

"I don't come to your place of work and knock the sailors' cocks out of your mouth!" ;)
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:D

I'm going to write that down :D
 
If i was a comedian doing stand-up i'd make sure i brought a load of my mates along so if anyone heckled whilst i was doing my turn they'd get a smack and dragged outside for a kicking. That'd teach anyone to think twice before they heckled my act.

but then again i bet 'Jimmy' Carr and his sort haven't got and mates who're up for giving folk violencings cos he's a wanker.
 
i remember going to see mark thomas in the plimsoll arms years ago when he had not long become a dad and was doing a load of mushy shit about fatherhood. my friend got bored (as a lot of us were) and shouted "do some political stuff". bit of an embarassed silence and he looked a bit sheepish and carried on.

a few months later he was getting proper stuck in again in a political way, so altho i don't think she can claim total credit by any means, i think it does show that heckling has its place :D
 
seeformiles said:
My mate used to do a bit of stand-up and I asked him what his favourite line for tackling hecklers was. He said the one that worked best was:

"I don't come to your place of work and knock the sailors' cocks out of your mouth!" ;)
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funny thing is you just know that line, a cracker though it is, was probably nicked off some dodgy old working man's comic who everyone on here would probably regard as satan incarnate.
 
My big heckling moment came when Green Day played the little Hull Adelphi in, oooh, 1991? Can't remember what I said but it was enough for wotsisname singer twat to ask me up on stage to make my point clearly to the audience. I got up and mumbled a merry christmas to everyone, to which the bassist said something like I was a fucking idiot and had nothing to say and should now leave the stage.

Now they're dead famous that incident had the potential of a great anecdote, but it's actually embarrassing and ultimately unmemorable. So I shared it with you guys.

Edit: of course, Green Day aren't comedy ;)
 
chico enrico said:
I think Carr would be well good to heckle. You can just tell he's not got any experience of playing to 'un-refined' crowds and, not having one ounce of wit or spontaniety in his body, he'll get unnerved and lose the rag real easy. :D
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He's such a slimy cunt I wouldn't be surprised if he planted a heckler with a script in the audience and then used some rehearsed ripostes.
 
copliker said:
He's such a slimy cunt I wouldn't be surprised if he planted a heckler with a script in the audience and then used some rehearsed ripostes.
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I severely doubt it. Just watch his latest DVD (comedian). Trust me there is so much audience interaction he would have to have half the audience in his pocket (which, if nothing else, would make the exercise a bit of a loser financially).

Anyway, I can understand the carr haters (his TV stuff is generally fair to middling, and he is always on something seemingly unjustifiably...) and I too used to be one. Worth checking out though. you may be slightly surprised.

Anyway, I don't think that anyone has given me a line i'd feel comfortable using (possible exception of "I used to fuck guys like you in prison"...). I don't want to end up looking like the guy in this you tube vid either, so unless something truly amazing hits me, I'll probably shut up...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xtjx-yplqTw
 
Jon-of-arc said:
Anyway, I don't think that anyone has given me a line i'd feel comfortable using (possible exception of "I used to fuck guys like you in prison"...).]
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It's a sad turn of events when hecklers have to steal lines from Patrick Swayze films. Although you may as well borrow from the best.
 
Stigmata said:
It's a sad turn of events when hecklers have to steal lines from Patrick Swayze films. Although you may as well borrow from the best.
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I knew I had heard that somewhere. I do llove road house. Almost as good as Red Dawn. Some quick snatches of Road House genius...

Dalton: People who really want to have a good time won't come to a slaughterhouse. And we've got entirely too many troublemakers here. Too many 40-year-old adolescents, felons, power drinkers and trustees of modern chemistry
(sounds like my kinda place...)

Red Webster: How long are you gonna be in town?
Dalton: Not very long.
Red Webster: That's what I said 25 years ago.
Dalton: Really? What happened?
Red Webster: I got married to an ugly woman. Don't ever do that. It just takes the energy right out of you. She left me, though. Found somebody even uglier than she was. That's life. Who can explain it?

and

Dalton: Pain don't hurt
 
Carr's material isn't bad, and he can handle an audience.

But he still comes off as such a smug git that I want to punch him. Not as badly as Ricky Gervais, but still.
 
In my experience, most hecklers are drunken attention-seekers who think they're far funnier than they really are. I went to a comedy club in Twickenham a couple of times and on both occasions the same bloke spent all evening heckling everyone, whether they were good or bad. I really wanted to wrap a chair round his head.

Another time, at a really crap 'improv' night just off Leicester Square, this old couple took offence at the act making jokes about handicapped people and got up to leave. The 'comedian' made some quip, and the woman turned round and said "you're disablist". He, being all smug, went "Um, that's not a real word", to which she replied "well you're not funny either" and walked out. He looked crushed. It wasn't really a heckle, but it was brilliant.
 
seeformiles said:
My mate used to do a bit of stand-up and I asked him what his favourite line for tackling hecklers was. He said the one that worked best was:

"I don't come to your place of work and knock the sailors' cocks out of your mouth!" ;)
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:D I've heard that one live! Is your mate a geordie by any chance?
 
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