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Comment on Do most comedians invite heclers to their shows? And they go over the bit so it seems sporadic? And get them more views or clicks or whatever? Kind of like a magician does with a plant?

backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I never invited hecklers back when I was doing it, but I did figure out which clubs and which nights tended to draw certain crowds that were more likely to heckle and was kind of mentally prepared to deal with it.

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AskewLord@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
certain crowds, like what? of a certain demographic or like drunks?

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- backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Demographics mostly. Blue city in a red state. The downtown clubs rarely had hecklers, gigs in the outlying towns were more likely to draw ire for the material. How people handle their drunkenness is also part of it. People who are assholes sober seem to feel more entitled to blast their opinion while drunk, and not surprisingly I found a lot more of them in the suburbs.
  
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