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“HECKLER: Say something funny! COMEDIAN: I don't do requests.”

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Book:Citations: A Brief Anthology

Source: Citations: A Brief Anthology

“COMEDIAN: [...] What is it you do for a living? HECKLER: I mind my own business. COMEDIAN: Self-employed, eh? No really, what do you do? HECKLER: I try not to "do.”

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Book:Citations: A Brief Anthology

Source: Citations: A Brief Anthology

“I bend arrows into ornaments, heckles only tickle my soul. I turn junk into jewel, I reclaim the fakes as fuel.”

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Book:Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“things were still horrific. The catcalls were constant, the glares and heckles never ceasing every time I so much as wore lipstick. Getting dressed and leaving my house, facing the scorn of strangers and the constant threat of physical violence, became an act of superhuman courage. Some days, the anxiety would win and I wouldn’t leave my apartment. One time two men on the subway loudly discussed whether they should set me on fire for being a faggot. I pretended not to hear them through my headphones.”

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Author:Jacob Tobia

“Gleefully pointing out the mistakes of previous generations while not daring to make any of your own is boorish heckling from the sidelines, not living.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“The internet's perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain't one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point-scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional “live audience” quickly conspire to create a “perfect storm” of perpetual bickering.”

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Book:Dawn of the Dumb

Source: Dawn of the Dumb

“There's two types of hecklers. If someone says something really funny it's normally them heckling as part of the show. They're trying to add onto one of your jokes. If someone says something really funny, I've never seen a comedian abuse them, you always sort of tip your hat a little bit if they nail it.”

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Author:Jim Jefferies

“To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater.”

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Author:Lenny Bruce

“Sometimes heckling can almost help a set, because it ratchets up the tension in the room... can even bring things to a climax.”

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Author:Demetri Martin

“Every week for me was the same audience, and every week they heckled me. The better I got at comedy, the better the audience was at heckling me. But it helped me with my joke writing.”

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Author:Felipe Esparza

“I would say, as far as heckling, there's benign and there's malignant; like tumors man. Sometimes you get really nice hecklers. I'd say percentage-wise it's only about 10 to 20 percent the whole year.”

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Author:Godfrey

“Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get stage time, and so I would go out to Pip's in Sheepshead Bay.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I do not want to encourage heckling and outbreaks at all.”

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Author:David Cross

“Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.”

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Author:Billy Connolly