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How To Handle A Heckler
Performing in front of people and be a scary thing. There are plenty of talented musician who are afraid of a live crowd. The same goes for comedy. I know a lot of funny people who would never perform in front of a crowd of strangers. This is mostly due to fear of rejection. It can be difficult to stand in front of hundreds of people who don’t know you and are just waiting for you to fuck up. Sometimes the crowd will just ignore you, other times they will heckle you.
Nothing could possibly be worse that some stupid asshole with no talent what-so-ever screaming at you that you suck. Good performers can ignore these assholes and go on with the show, not letting the heckler ruin somebody else’s fun. The best performers fire back. Sometimes they get carried away and end up looking like the asshole them self. Remember Michael Richards? The best thing is everybody seems to handle hecklers different. Some prefer the embarrass technique, like Comedian Brendon Burns.
While others prefer violence.
So the next time you think you have the right to heckle somebody just because you paid to see them, remember this. A guitar upside the head, hurts.
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Man, he nailed that dude HARD with his guitar!!! Violence kinda throws a pall over a comedy routine, doesn’t it??