History Main / TheHeckler

--->'''Patton''': ''See''?! See how it got fucking louder? Literally a ''moment'' after you made that fucking noise, you ''stupid douchenozzle''! You truly don't fucking get it, do ya? You poor motherfucker. You're gonna miss everything cool and die angry.

* Live audiences, clearcut good guys and bad guys, and an audience where half of them think they're in on the joke... the heckling ranges from signs to chants to shouted comments. Most of the wrestlers just roll with it unless an audience member is trying to mess with {{kayfabe}} or is using family-unfriendly language at a family-friendly show.

* The ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' episode "Jiminy Cricket" opens with [[Disney/{{Hercules}} Pain and Panic]] heckling Mickey's opening monologue.

* In Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Theatre/{{Mystere}}'', which has NoFourthWall, the NonIronicClown Brian Le Petit is this rather than an actual resident of the MagicalLand the show is set in (AllThereInTheManual material explains he wandered into the theatre by mistake, and he's the most "normal"-looking character in the show). He mocks the emcee during the NoTalkingOrPhonesWarning and disrupts the show several times with ScrewySquirrel hijinks, culminating in a DisappearingBox act with an audience participant that turns out to be [[spoiler: his ploy to ''woo the man's date'' while he's locked up]]. In the end, [[spoiler: he's not only escorted out of the theatre, but does not participate in the curtain call]].

--->'''Patton''': Oh my god, she's still talking to him, look at this! "Sweetie, there's something I've ''got'' to tell you. Let's wait until we pay for a comedy show and then I'll tell you all about it."''

* The Creator/EddieMurphy remake of ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor'' has his character have to deal with the same InsultComic (played by Creator/DaveChappelle) twice. The first time the comic goes on a "You so fat" monologue that he is too shy and mild-mannered to fight back. Following his transformation, he encounters the same comic and proceeds to heckle him, having such outlandish energy nobody can keep up. After the comic uses a "[[YourMom Your momma so fat]]" joke, he responds by exhausting ''all'' possible fat jokes to the point the comic is about to cry.

Naturally TruthInTelevision. It should be noted that 90 percent of the time when someone gets the courage to heckle it does not end well for them. The reason being is that often they make their move on private property where they can be asked to leave for disruptive conduct. At other times they are trying to heckle someone who has the microphone, thus few people can hear their comments but ''everyone'' can hear the responses. It is part of the business with [[StandUpComedy stand-up comics]], who are usually prepared for it; incidents like with Michael Richards are really fairly rare. (Let's face it, [[WhatAnIdiot anyone who tries]] to out-insult a professional InsultComic probably [[BullyingADragon deserves what they get]].)

Naturally TruthInTelevision. It should be noted that 90 percent of the time when someone gets the courage to heckle it does not end well for them. The reason being is that often they make their move on private property where they can be asked to leave for disruptive conduct. At other times they are trying to heckle someone who has the microphone, thus few people can hear their comments but ''everyone'' can hear the responses. It is part of the business with [[StandUpComedy stand-up comics]], who are usually prepared for it; incidents like with Michael Richards are really fairly rare. (Let's face it, [[WhatAnIdiot anyone who tries]] to out-insult a professional InsultComic probably [[InsultBackfire deserves what they get]].)

Naturally TruthInTelevision. It should be noted that 90 percent of the time when someone gets the courage to heckle it does not end well for them. The reason being is that often they make their move on private property where they can be asked to leave for disruptive conduct. At other times they are trying to heckle someone who has the microphone, thus few people can hear their comments but ''everyone'' can hear the responses. It is part of the business with [[StandUpComedy stand-up comics]], who are usually prepared for it; incidents like with Michael Richards are really fairly rare.

** He later comments in ''The Voice in My Head'' [[https://youtu.be/--FN8mPqSiw that the most effective way to throw off a comedian is not to heckle]], since that means you're engaged in their act, [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond but to simply not respond]]. As soon as you do that, you get their full attention, because comedians are {{Attention Whore}}s, and they will do whatever they can to provoke a reaction.

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* JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf from ''Series/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.
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* In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', Terry was struggling to fend off ComicBook/TheJoker and asked Bruce for advice, being told about Joker's [[BreakThemByTalking love to talk]], 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 episode [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE21FeatOfClayPart2 "Feat of Clay"]], Roland Daggett is 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 goes on a long rant about its rumored addictive qualities and becomes violent over it, eventually revealing herself to be Clayface.

* Adam Hills has told a few stories about hecklers in his routines. In one case, he was complaining about a sports commentator trying to coin the word "[[PerfectlyCromulentWord bouncebackability]]" and get it into the dictionary [[ForcedMeme by getting enough people to use it]]. Adam stated that this wasn't an appropriate criteria for a word making it into the English language, to which someone in the audience pointed out that he meant "criteri''on''", the singular as opposed to the plural. Adam says his is the best heckle he's ever received: being called on his misuse of the English language in the middle of a rant bemoaning the misuse of the English language. The heckler replied "Yes. That's irony."

** He later comments in ''The Voice in My Head'' that the most effective way to throw off a comedian is not to heckle, since that means you're engaged in their act, [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond but to simply not respond]]. As soon as you do that, you get their full attention, because comedians are {{Attention Whore}}s, and they will do whatever they can to provoke a reaction.

** He later comments in ''The Voice in My Head'' that the most effective way to throw off a comedian is not to heckle, since that means you're engaged in their act, but to not respond ''at all''. As soon as you do that, you get their full attention, because comedians are {{Attention Whore}}s, and they will do whatever they can to provoke a reaction.

* 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.

* In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', Terry was struggling to fend off SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker and asked Bruce for advice, being told about Joker's [[BreakThemByTalking love to talk]], 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 an episode of ''WelcomeBackKotter'' Mr. Kotter goes to an Open Mic night at a club to try his hand at standup comedy. He gets heckled and loses his nerve, until he starts talking about his students.

** And from ''Werewolves and Lollipops'', [[https://youtu.be/JgcaFM3DWw4?t=1m45s a heckler]] [[MomentKiller ruins a quiet moment]] during his set]], ''right'' before the punchline, and Patton spends the next ''two minutes'' tearing into him, explaining in detail how moments like that work when it comes to comedy, and capping off with this after having finished the joke.

* Adam Hills has told a few stories about hecklers in his routines. In one case, he was complaining about a sports commentator trying to coin the word "bouncebackability" and get it into the dictionary by getting enough people to use it. Adam stated that this wasn't an appropriate criteria for a word making it into the English language, to which someone in the audience pointed out that he meant "criteri''on''", the singular as opposed to the plural. Adam says his is the best heckle he's ever received: being called on his misuse of the English language in the middle of a rant bemoaning the misuse of the English language. The heckler replied "Yes. That's irony."

'''Dangerfield:''' What do I do for a living? I get guys fer yer sister, okay? Don't be a wiseguy. Just remember, don't fuck around with a comic who can't get laid.

'''Carlin:''' See? See? You gotta use psychology! You gotta be a bit of a psychologist up here and know how to appeal to a person.

** And from ''Werewolves and Lollipops'', [[https://youtu.be/JgcaFM3DWw4?t=1m45s a heckler]] [[MomentKiller ruins a quiet moment]] during his set]], ''right'' before the punchline, and Patton spends the next ''two minutes'' tearing into him, explaining in detail how moments like that work when it comes to comedy, and capping off with this.
--->'''Patton''': I'm gonna be a douchebag forever! [[NeverLiveItDown I'm being burned onto a CD for eternity being a douchebag]]! [[MundaneMadeAwesome When my body returns to the loam and the cities are but dust, alien civilizations will know that I AM A DOUCHEBAG]]! They will know! The neuromancers walking the wastelands will carry high my standard of douchebaggery! ''I am one with the gods''!