History Main / TheHeckler

** Shadow of the Bat #38, ''Tears of a Clown'', TheJoker celebrates his anniversary of the day he was a still sane, but hapless comedian, and was thrown out of an exclusive StandUpComedy club for an unfunny act the patrons mercilessly heckled. Being desperately poor, this marks his StartOfDarkness as he agreed to provide to his family by pulling a job for the Red Hood gang. So TheJoker kidnaps all the patrons and reenacts his act with control collars that will kill them when they laugh. The funny thing is that the patrons are really hardcore StandUpComedy fans, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday so they have seen (and heckled) so many acts that nobody remembers the act of a bad comedian]]. Given TheJoker has a MultipleChoicePast, he cannot even be sure that this StartOfDarkness really happened.

** Shadow of the Bat #38, ''Tears of a Clown'', TheJoker celebrates his anniversary of the day he was a still sane, but hapless comedian, and was thrown out of an exclusive StandUpComedy club for an unfunny act the patrons mercilessly heckled. Being desperately poor, this marks his StartOfDarkness as he agreed to provide to his family by pulling a job for the Red Hood gang. So TheJoker kidnaps all the patrons and reenacts his act with control collars that will kill them when they laugh. The funny thing is that the patrons are really hardcore StandUpComedy fans, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday so they have seen so many acts that nobody remembers the act of a bad comedian]]. Given TheJoker has a MultipleChoicePast, he cannot even be sure that this StartOfDarkness really happened.

* In the audio recording of ChristopherTitus' special "Neverlution" he went on to talk about America's obsession with medication for ''everything'' and in response to his comment "We all have highs and lows" an audience member called out "This show is a low." Titus' comeback was "Wow, you must have a lot of stock in (specific drug, audio is unclear)." His subsequent mockery of the guy for trying to heckle him was met with rapt applause.

* Comedian BillyConnolly went to town on a heckler at one of his recorded gigs. His comeback was "I'm the man up here with the microphone, Jimmy. ''You'' are the one that's got to shout yourself hoarse. Nae contest. In fact, the only reason why I'm talkin' to ye now is so as the bouncers can get a fix on ye. You've only got one line left before you're oot on your arse, so you'd best make it a guid one!"

* In ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'', every time Mayor Mare gives a speech, a voice in the crowd shouts insults at her. When she tries to call the heckler out, he goes quite and blends into the crowd.

-->'''Both''': Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!
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** In ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesJokersFavor Joker’s Favor]]'' Charlie Collins realizes the only way to truly inspire fear into The Joker is stealing his act by menacing Joker's only dream: his FinalFight with Batman.

* In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', Terry was struggling to fend off TheJoker and asked Bruce for advice, being told about Joker's vanity and to ignore it. Terry opted for the complete opposite, becoming a heckler to mock the various tricks Joker used and calling him pathetic for fixating on the original [[TheComicallySerious Batman]] for so long.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Feat of Clay" Roland Daggett was promoting a new miracle facial cream that can turn your face into putty on an infomercial show. During the Q&A a woman from the audience went on a long rant about its rumored addictive qualities and became violent over it, eventually revealing herself to be Clayface.
** In the ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesJokersFavor Joker’s Favor]]'' Charlie Collins realizes the only way to truly inspire fear into TheJoker is stealing his act by menacing Joker's only dream: his FinalFight with TheBatman.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Feat of Clay" Roland Daggett was promoting a new miracle facial cream that can turn your face into putty on an infomercial show. During the Q&A a woman from the audience went on a long rant about its rumored addictive qualities and became violent over it, eventually revealing herself to be Clayface.

If done right, it can turn into a successful TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that gets the audience on your side. If done poorly, you end up looking like an idiot who ran into the wall. This character is a good way to involve conflict, as their very nature is about disrupting the intended activity they were involved with. Thus they may either be used to help poke holes in the bad guys claims or are put into place so the heroes can knock down their claims.

* BillBurr is famous for his swift and brutal responses to hecklers. After an audience booed every other comedian offstage and pissed him off something fierce, one set in Philadelphia consisted of nothing ''but'' Burr tearing the crowd a new asshole for his entire eleven-minute set, even counting down each minute to let them know he wasn't leaving 'til he was done. By about the halfway mark, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments most of crowd had started cheering him on]].

* StatlerAndWaldorf from ''TheMuppetShow''. Their whole schtick is to make fun of how bad the show is, and it is implied that it's the only reason they go to the show at all. Usually they keep their comments to themselves, except when Fozzie takes the stage; their insults get more laughs from the audience than Fozzie's jokes.

* AndyKaufman did a bit where he got heckled for repeating material, including the heckler informing the audience that he was a plant and the whole thing was scripted, ''including'' the part where the heckler tells the audience that he's a plant and it's scripted.

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-->'''Statler''': You know it's a great honor to be included alongside the world's best hecklers.
-->'''Waldorf''': Too bad ''we're'' stuck with the rest of them!
-->'''Both''': Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!

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** Another ''Simpsons'' example shows [[TheAhnold Reiner Wolfcastle]] doing stand-up comedy. Hecklers were killed off with various ordnance.

* Bart, and often Homer act as such in ''TheSimpsons'', usually for petty attention seeking reasons or one of their rivals being in the spotlight (in "Bart Star" Flanders became coach of Bart's football team, leading Homer to chastise him relentlessly during each game, until Flanders finally snapped and [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter made him coach instead]]).
* Done by Peter in an episode of ''FamilyGuy'' after he gets completely drunk during a comedy show. Similar to the above, the comedian finally loses patience and goads him to give it a shot himself, with the expected results.

* A hilarious scene in ''{{The Simpsons}}'' shows Reiner Wolfcastle doing stand-up comedy. Hecklers were killed off with various ordnance.
* In the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Boast Busters", Applejack, Spike Rarity and Rainbow Dash all heckle The Great and Powerful Trixie's act (or at least complain about it loudly in audible distance), believing her to be an egomaniac. She retaliates by daring them to better her in feats, of which she humiliates them all one by one.

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