Feb. 23, 2025

Joe Rogan's Club Under Threat, Adam Sandler on Taylor Swift, and Comedian Heckling Issues

Show Notes
Transcript

In today's episode, Johnny Mac covers a serious threat to Joe Rogan's Comedy Mothership in Austin, detailing the arrest of a 35-year-old man from Houston who threatened violence against the club. The episode then shifts to lighter topics, with Adam Sandler expressing his fandom for Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, and his experience on the New Heights podcast.

Johnny also discusses comics' evolving careers, specifically Sam Morrell's tour and Mindy Kaling’s potential acting return. The episode wraps up with a look at comedians dealing with hecklers, featuring stories from Natalie Cuomo, Peter Kay, Larry Dean, and others.

00:00 Introduction and Joe Rogan's Comedy Club Threat
01:23 Adam Sandler on Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift
02:38 Sam Morrell's Comedy Tour and Evolution
04:05 Mindy Kaling's Career Reflections
06:02 Heckling Incidents in Comedy
09:10 Conclusion and Social Media Impact on Comedy

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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A scary one involving Joe Rogan's comedy club in Austin. Hi.

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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. KVUE reports

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a thirty five year old man from the Houston area

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is facing a felony charge after allegedly threatening to attack

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the comedy Mothership that Joe Rogan's Club in Austin. According

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to an affid, David, the club security manager contacted the

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detective who holds the club's police security contract. The manager

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told that detective he'd been made aware of threats posted

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online against the club, which included threats to shoot up

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the club and bomb the Comedy Mothership on a particular date.

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Club patrons emailed the club's manager expressing concern over the threats.

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The detective then looked at a screen captured YouTube video

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in which the subject addressed the club directly and said

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that quote at any time, he would go blow that

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place up if he wants to, and that there's nothing

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that they can do about it. The video continues where

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the man allegedly says that he would walk in with

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a fully automatic assault rifle and mow everyone down, and

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there's nothing they could do about it as the mothership. Boy,

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that's really terrifying. The man then listed his own address,

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threatening to kill anyone who showed up to his property.

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That made it easier for law enforcement to figure out

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where he lives. Switching gears. Adam Sandler big fan of

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Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift. Adam Sandlor was on the

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New Heights podcast. That reminds me, I meant to download

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that episode. I'm doing that right now. Boy, is my

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phone full. I have so many things I have to

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listen to. I didn't get to those trivor Noah things

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I told you about the other day. Here it is

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February tenth. Adam Sandler on favorite SNL moments casting Travis

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and Happy Gilmore two and what the water Boy something

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titles too long? There guys, Taylor is a fan of

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the romance. It said, you guys being together like yes.

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Sandlor revealed that Taylor Swift holds an almost untouchable status

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in his home, especially among his daughters. Sandlor said, somebody

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asked me, who do you get nervous around? I said,

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I do get nervous around Taylor Swift because I don't

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want to blow it from my kids and say something stupid. Yeah,

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you gotta be careful around Taylor Swift. You say the

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wrong thing, she could destroy your career. Adam Sandler, you

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think I'm kidding. Listen to this innocuous joke made one

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time on the Golden Globes by Joe Coy.

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As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader.

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The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL.

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On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of

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Taylor Swift.

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I swear wo Taylor did not like that, to suggest

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that people were looking at Taylor Swift. You don't want

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to take on Taylor Swift. No, be careful at him.

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Sam Morel explained why he named his tour the Errors Tour,

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and he said, I was just ripping off Taylor Swift. Now, Sam,

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be careful. If Taylor finds out the name of your

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tour and doesn't like the name of your tour, she

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might get really mad at you. For example, one time,

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Joe Koy told a joke about Taylor Swift. I don't

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know if you remember it from thirty seconds ago, but

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it's a great bit, so I'm gonna play it for you.

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On the Golden Globes. We have fewer camber shots of

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Taylor Swift.

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You don't want to mess with Taylor Swift. Sam Sam said,

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I was just ripping off Taylor Swift. It wasn't like

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I put a ton of thought into it. It was just like, Eh,

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what I'll sell a couple extra seconds. I was just

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thinking of boyfriends lying to their girlfriends as a fun joke.

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Sam's are doing this twenty years now, and talked about

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his evolution. I think you just try to evolve with

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the times, so it also stay true to who you are.

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So you don't just evolve because that's what the world

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is doing. You want to grow as a human, but

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you want to stay true to your comedy roots. It's

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weird balance, see it, right, If you're completely the same

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your whole career, and then the act doesn't grow and

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your style becomes predictable. When I was young, I thought

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anything had potential. So you lose a little bit of that,

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for lack of a better word, innocence, where like I

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can make this funny. When you're older as a comic,

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you rule out a lot. You'll say that premise is

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flawed or this doesn't work. Because of this, you just

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become more tuned with what should work and what shouldn't work,

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and your swing gets shorter. For me, it's like playing

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basketball the rec center or something, and you're like, oh, man,

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I just did a lot of cardio, but it didn't

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feel like cardio because it was fun. It's kind of

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how I felt about comedy in those years. It was

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just really fun. There were bad nights, for sure, and

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the knew they were bad, and I was aware that

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it sucked, but I also knew I was building towards something,

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or at least I hoped I was good stuff there.

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Variety did a big piece about Mindy Kaling. She spoke

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about the show never Have I ever, saying, I was like,

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as someone who was my own TV show and loves

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to act, how did I not act in the show

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about an Indian American family. It was going so good

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that I didn't want to jinx it by appearing in it,

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or it might be a distraction. Mindy's talking about possibly

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perhaps maybe appearing on season four of the Sex Lives

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of College Girls. She said, I could play an unhinged

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Latin professor. If we go to season four, that would

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be great. I watched that cast that just makes me

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want to act. Mindy says she's pondering whether to write

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herself a part in a new series. I wouldn't have

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to be the lead in my own show if I

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was writing it. I'd love to write a show for

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someone amazing and then play a supporting part in it.

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She got a Hollywood Walk of Fame earlier in the month.

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It's like aging where mentally I'm still twenty four and

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a staff writer on the Office, but then it's so

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actually I'm forty five. I'd have done these other things.

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Maybe it's from being a comedy writer, but it feels

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if you ever slow down and take a moment where

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you celebrate yourself or have any kind of self reflection,

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something bad is going to happen. It's something to be mocked,

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like the worst kind of character on Office or any

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of those other shows you take themselves too seriously. And

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she means the characters there and I didn't read the

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sentence right. You get it. But part of being a

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good role model and a good human is actually being

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so grateful for this, for lack of a better phrase,

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just taking it in. Although I think I detest the

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phrase taking it in. I'm just gonna be sincerely grateful

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for this star to whoever the shadowy committee is that

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decided I was worthy of a star. Behind the scenes, folks,

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you have to pay for those stars. So part of

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it is, hey, who can we get some money out of.

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They don't like, just tell you show up on Tuesday,

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We'll give you a star. They're like, do you want

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a star? It costs this, I mean, he said. The

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other thing so amazing about the star is the ceremony

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around it. You remember the image of a celebrity sitting

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in front of the star taking photos. I'm so excited

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for my kids to see it. I have awards, physical trophies,

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but this is one you have to visit. I'm Hindu

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and we get cremated, so I'm not gonna have a gravestone.

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So this is nice. There's a new Kim Kardashian commercial

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where Kim plays your fairy butt mother. I'm not interested

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in that subject at all. What I do find interesting

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is that the ad was written by Michelle Wolfe. Apparently,

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Michelle wolf was also the writer behind the twenty twenty

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three ad Ultimate nipplebra All Right, A few weeks ago,

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I told you a story about Natalie Cuomo going off

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on a heckler. It was a big deal on the

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intur webs. Has got an update here just to catch

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you up in case you missed the initial story. Natalie's

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up there on stage as a guy in the front row.

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He yells, it's not my fault. You don't have material.

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I can roast you too. You can't roast all of

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us to get nothing. Natalie kept it cool at first,

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and then the guy kept going and she yelled back,

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there's so many people coming together to be supportive, and

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then shouted in the guy's face, no, look me in

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the eyes. You're putting negative effing energy out there. So

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that's what went viral. In a social media clip, Natalie wrote,

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right after I said how grateful I was for everyone

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being there and selling out the show, this little man

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on the front road decided to let his true color shine.

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Only stand up for yourself and if you're going to

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be rude, at least have the decency to look me

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in the eyes. I also recently told you about the

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whole Peter k heckling thing. In case you missed that.

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Peter was at the Manchester Arena. There was one guy

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who kept yelling out it's garlic bread. I think it's

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the line. You kicked him out, and there was somebody

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else who was annoying and kicked that person out too.

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Kay had defended the move, saying he'd done his best

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to address the situation and made light of it as

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any comedian would, but unfortunately their interruptions continued. Some other

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comedians are weighing in now. Larry Dean told the BBC

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it's a really hard thing to do because no one

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wants to see a comic go serious. You feel like

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a teacher. Sometimes it changes the atmosphere when a heckler

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goes too far, but it really is about gauging to

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the people around me want to keep going. Last year,

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Dean found himself the victim of the most brutal heckle ever.

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Larry overheard a woman talking to someone else in the

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audience and decided to ask if she was okay. The

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woman said, my dad bought me these tickets because he's

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dying and he wanted me to have a laugh. We're

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not laughing, so I said to my pal, we're gonna leave.

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Dean told the BBC, obviously I'm not going to make

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fun of that. He seems so confused by the heckle

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that another audience member asked Larry the comedian if he

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was okay. Larry says, looking at it perspective wise, Chris

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show interruptions for the past two years, they've had it easy.

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They need to get this woman to know what a

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heckle really is. He said his second worst heckle involved

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a man on the front road repeating the same whispered

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swear word at him so that only he could hear it.

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I just had an Larry says. Arenas are harder to

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play than a theater or a comedy club because the

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laughter goes up but it doesn't come towards the stage.

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People say Peter k should have said this, But usually

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people who say that have never been on stage before

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and they don't know how hard it could be thinking

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that quickly in the moment about what the best thing

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for the show is. But you just want everyone to

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have a good time. Comedian Abby Clark says there's a

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difference between heckling and crowd work. With crowd work, a

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comedian is inviting it. You're asking a question, You're wanting

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a chat, and that's very different from somebody shouting out

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a random thing. Once it's fine or twice. If the

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comedian stops engaging with you or says that's enough, then

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at that point you're ruining it. I've had hecklers who've

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interrupted multiple times. But if they're engaging, joining on with

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what you're saying and being positive, I don't mind that.

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It's quite fun. If they're just derailing the gig because

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they like the sound of their own voice, and I

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think you should check them all out. Garlic bread, there's

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not much you could do with that. Welsh comedian Paul

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Hilliard says, heckling's just part of the game. It's not fun,

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but it can be. I've always been taught you've got

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to play to the room. If it's chaotic, it doesn't

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matter if you've written the best twenty minutes ever. You've

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got to control that room of people who are intoxicated

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and show them that you're fun, that's smart. There's a

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line if you're ruining the show, that becomes the venues problem.

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But it's our job as a comic to make that

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heckle part of the show is that's where the magic

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is what a pain in the neck for the performers.

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And this is all about feeding the social media beast

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because they don't want to burn materials, so you're posting

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crowd work and then people who don't know better than

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crowd work is heckling, and it's just I feel bad

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for the comedians. You're just trying to do your act.

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That's your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program,

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tell a friend about it. They might enjoy it too.

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See tomorrow.