Helium - Heckler's Delight?
Give a peek at Punchline editor Dylan Gadino's open letter to the Helium Comedy Club, AKA "What's Wrong With Comedy These Days." Apparently it was a comedy nightmare for the stand-ups, and the club let patrons run around like drunk gorillas.
"I just returned from the 10:30 p.m. show and have never, in my entire life, seen a comedy club’s showroom so devastatingly out of control. Through the two hours of comedy you presented tonight, there were no less than five pockets of audience members that did almost nothing but taunt comics; they yelled out idiotic utterances, stupidly answered rhetorical questions from the comics and held conversations at their tables at volumes usually reserved for roadwork foremen relaying orders to jackhammer operators."
Why wouldn't a club do something to corral such a rowdy and disruptive audience? And if you're going to talk over the comedians and act like a drunk moron, why don't you just go to a sports bar and yell over the ball game like all of your idiot friends?
Comedians, have you had a heckling experience you'd like to share? Any insight into why people do this sort of thing in the first place? Let it out in the comments section. There, there, let it all out.












Comments
as the world descends into chaos, so does its comedy. with the invention of the two way screen machine no one will settle for passivity when they have a voice to be heard.
or people are just rudies.
Posted by: tony blanco | July 9, 2007 4:48 PM
One time at McDunna's, we interrupted a dart tournament so we could do our crummy open mic. The dart players then heckled everyone.
Hecklers with sharp projectiles... That's fun...
Posted by: Not Fojas | July 10, 2007 12:04 PM
One time Brendan McGowan fucked my girlfriend on the bar right when I was trying out my new tagger.
Posted by: fritz | July 10, 2007 2:12 PM
I am Chinese.
Posted by: Bradley Fojas | July 12, 2007 4:13 PM