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If you're wondering why videos like this get posted, look at how many views even the shittiest 'heckler' video gets. It's usually north of a million.
It's an easy way to get traffic/Monetization to your page you wouldn't have previously had.
Watching hecklers get decimated almost always feels awful, and not in a good way. I'm not sure why people enjoy watching those videos so much, but I could say that about half of the internet lately. You damn kids and your planking and hecklers and dubstep!
there was a lady last night who didn't understand why it's not ok to talk and text while sitting right in front of the stage. the host talked to her, the comics talked to her...it got a little awkward. she kept saying, "well i'm not the ONLY one talking" since people at the bar in the back were also talking. i didn't stay the whole night but i wonder if she was there to go up or just to see someone.
on a plus note, i actually had a decent set last night! after bombing about 3 times in a row it was nice to get some real laughs.
So we think she is from Boston and only remember her as someone who got drunk at a mike and did the same thing, but she had a host who could give 2 shits who was next on the list and did it the way he wanted. So he bumped her. And bumped her. And bumped her. Eventually she stormed out of the mike cursing and saying she was moving to NYC anyways and fuck off.
So maybe she did come out of here? But we could get into one of those 'who gets to call themselves a comedian' debates but whatever.
I do think this speaks more poorly of this adam guy who is clearly trying to capitalize on the publicity... if that's your aim I guess that's what you get. I'd rather work on my act and earn my million views and press. Or not get it if my work isn't the cause of it.
There's a difference between getting destroyed and just getting shit on.
There's no art to yelling "Butterface!" at a girl. It's just shit coming out of your ass that you toss on stage.
I question the (irrelevant and subjective) "Comic" status of anyone who heckles mean-spiritedly for any reason. This includes the piece of shit who yells "Kill yourself!" to someone and the obnoxious drunk girl who inspires it.
Formerly an enigmatic Irish woman. Don't ask.
The handwringing and moralizing over this is hilarious. I award you all 2000 eyerolls.
It's much funnier than anything in the video.
The guy who posted this was interviewed on the Huffington Post and confirmed that she was not thrown out so that the crowd could heckle. Assholery confirmed.
Also, the name of the video should be "Comic Heckled"
Last edited by Couldn'tThinkOfaName; April 4, 2012 at 11:49 AM.
Hot tub foot?
Handwringing and moralizing? I don't give a rusty fuck if she's a woman, drunk, whatever - my point is that watching videos of the time some "comic" yelled at and verbally MMA homoerotic-punched a "heckler" isn't fun to watch, in my opinion. On the rare occasions that I've resorted to sticking an audience member's hubris back up their butthole, even when the rest of the audience whoops and hollers and cheers as they've walked out humiliated (and yes, I have done it) I feel dirty and ashamed of myself. In most cases, they're drunk, stupid and not thinking straight, and using what I assume most of us have - quick powers of speech and thought - to lay them low is obviously possible, but I would never see any reason to post it online. In my most recent incident of this in my personal life I managed to get a whole crowd shouting at a guy to "go fuck himself" as he marched out of the place, and immediately after I felt like I'd been kicking a puppy. Can it be done? Yeah. Should it? Maybe. Should it get posted online? Nah, probably not. And I certainly wouldn't want to have it be the first thing of notoriety that I have my name attached to. It's a pretty negative aspect of comedy, which is probably why lots of people like talking about it but not something I consider a real great selling point of going to live shows. "Come watch the most sad, drunk person in the audience get humiliated until they storm out!"
I have drank a lot (A LOT) of alcohol in my time (Did I say a lot?), and I've never done something as blatantly inconsiderate and shitty as go out of my way to destroy (or at least completely waste the time of) someone's attempt to do something that I also wanted to do.
This girl is either, a) an incredible asshole, or, b) so incapable of handling her alcohol that she becomes an incredible asshole. Either way, her conduct should never be tolerated.
This may sound sexist in a weird way, but if she were a dude, someone would've punched her in the mouth. As it was, the audience was left to 'baby' her in a way by booing her, unable to kick her in her non-existent dick.
Hey, check me out. I'm a ghost.
Despite what that so called gentleman had to say, I thought her hair was nice. Decent bangs, too.
No, if she were a dude, someone would have kicked her/him out.
The video more represents a problem with the venue than anything else.
Formerly an enigmatic Irish woman. Don't ask.
Storm in a teacup. Laughable to get worked up about it. This is like watching Chess nerds squabble over some dude who broke one of their sacred little etiquette rules at a competition. Jesus wept. Is everybody here from California?
I never realized just how much a bad host can ruin an open mic. I went to a new mic tonight that has only been running a couple of weeks. The host bombed obliviously for his opening 7, and didn't even seem to be doing material. He just rambled, occasionally requesting a topic suggestion from the audience. (I guess he's been watching Live at the Purple Onion?) He then proceeded to do the same thing for 3-5 minutes in between every performer. This free-wheeling disaster set the tone for the evening, and several comics abandoned their material for some reason in order to fit in. On top of all this, the host and a couple other comics took to sexually harassing the female audience members in ways that were neither appropriate nor funny.
When the "show" finally ended, the host did an additional 15 or so with no material. I kept assuming he was almost done, so I never left. During this, he revealed he had only been doing stand up for three months. I guess he did well at one of the club's weird contests when he brought two dozen friends? I'm only six months in, and even I have a basic awareness of how comedy works and how an open mic should be run.
At least I know not to waste my gas money ever again.
I think some people think it's a bigger deal than it is. I haven't watched the video, nor will I, nor do I ever watch videos where a heckler supposedly gets their due. It happens rarely, it's almost never entertaining and if you're involved I haven't found it to be a good feeling.
However, I do find it amusing that in the midst of making a crack about Californians being pussies, the person from New York gets all New York-y by essentially telling us to just Shut Up About It, You Faggot Pussies. Stereotypes, amIright?!?
The video has been marked private, now I'll never know what everyone is complaining about.
Who's getting worked up about this? How can I discuss this topic in a way that accurately displays my cool detachment?Originally Posted by SeanX3
Formerly an enigmatic Irish woman. Don't ask.
If I see hosts doing material between comics, that's usually my cue to leave that mic. It's not uncommon around here to have mics that run for 3 hours. So if the host is doing 3 to 5 between sets, your night just got dragged out another hour.
I'm still not one hundred percent sure what you're specifically referring to since you're being pretty vague and in this post you're literally talking in some form of cliches. Part of the problem with the situation is that there is zealotry and moralization on both sides. Obviously myself and others see this to be a particular malignancy, but on the other side really the ONLY reason these videos are anything (aside from peoples' love of confrontation) is the zealotry and near fetishism that the comedy community has with "hecklers" as an idea. And THAT is what I think is sincerely a problem in comedy. A certain sector of comedy seem to be obsessed with hecklers. I feel like I'm in a lot of conversations with either newer comics or folks who satellite around comedy and they always talk about "I don't know what I'll do about hecklers" "What have you done?" "Man I saw this guy deal with this heckler and it was awesome!" These are the people who watch videos like this and say "YEAH!!!! I hate hecklers! Hecklers can get FUUUUUCKED!!!!" but if you ever actually ask these jagoffs what their interactions with real live hecklers who are yelling out and specifically disrupting the show has actually been it's almost certainly none at all. Because in truth they're incredibly rare to come across. I've been doing comedy for the better part of 5 years and I don't think I've even had to deal with one seriously.
Another thing that happens is that people are sooo sensitive to 'hecklers' that they think that ANY person who's a liiiittle bit drunk, and maybe a liiiittle bit loud needs to be shouted down and confronted. This leads to a stupid situation in which this audience person is, you know, a person, and they're GOING TO defend themselves. These two people are gonna have an interaction. Somebody has to win, and somebody has to lose, and the only people who definitely lose are people who came to see actual comedy, and would like for the show to get back on rails at some juncture and to not be focused around that one stupid thing from then on out. And the vast majority of time these people don't need to be dealt with at all. It can be moved past very quickly and elegantly and it's not difficult unless you have a big fat boner for 'dealing with the scourge of the heckler'.
So yes, I think this, and other videos is indicative of that mentality. And yes I think it's bad. And yes, I think it is a bit morally objectionable that this girl, no matter what happens from here on (and according to you things have been smoothed over) could've have had a really sad and dark moment of her's naked to the world for ever and ever. Obviously this is a problem with like 99% of internet videos but I'm just gonna be more sensitive because this is to some degree my world.
(Thankfully it looks like the video was taken down, least off Youtube)
The one week I don't show up!
had a great set last night. audience was really responsive and the new jokes went over very well. i stumbled a bit through one joke and accidentally left out another bit so i finished on the early side but still the best set i've done so far.
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