Hecklers

[agent_PUNT]

http://www.sacredcow.com/allnew/index_content.php?n=multimedia_video_everyone

Look at the bottom of this page. There is a dude who deals with a heckler by smashing a guitar over his head.

It's pretty funny.

[JohnDenver]

Holy fucking anger issues.
That's hilarious how, after he cracks the guy, he tries to reattach the strap. Like all he's got to do now is get back in tune and then the hilarity can continue.

[agent_PUNT]

He tries to win the crowd back and once he realizes that they aren't on his side, he decides to end the set. I love it.

[3v3+Z]

I remember Allan Havey telling a heckler anecdote one night on his old Comedy Central show, "Night After Night with Allan Havey". I wish I could find somewhere online or something where HE was telling the story, because I'm going to butcher it. Anyway, he was talking about having a really obnoxious female heckler one night in a club. She just would not shut up. So he starts starts ripping on her. the audience is LOVING it. She still won't shut up. So he keeps upping the ante, getting more and more insulting with her. And the audience is right there with him, loving it more and more the further he takes it. So he starts to get kind of cocky. Feeling like he can do no wrong, he poured a drink over this woman's head.

You know what sucks. As I got to the end of this story it occurred to me, I DON'T REMEMBER EXACTLY HOW IT ENDS! I mean, I know that he completely LOST the audience by doing that. I just can't remember how he described the reaction or the consequences.

Hey, Allan! If you happen to stumble across this, I'd really like to hear this story again.

[3v3+Z]

From here (http://members.aol.com/comedyfaq/faq.html):
Q. I heard there's a video where some comic hit a heckler with his guitar - you know anything about that, Russ?

A. Once again, the comic was Kenny Moore from Dallas. It happened at my now defunct home club, Jodie's Comedy Shop in Bossier City, LA. I was the opener and I caught the guy when Kenny smashed him. He received 40+ stitches across his hairline. He sued the shit out of the hotel where the club was located.


I was trying to find out if this guy ever got anywhere or if he was ever even able to WORK again after this. The only thing I can find that [i]seems to be about him is here (http://www.andrewshaman.com/ramblings.htm). Scroll WAY down to April 12, 2004. Looks like this guy is still active!

I wonder what kind of drugs he was on.

[5InchTaint]

Originally posted by 3v3+Z
Feeling like he can do no wrong, he poured a drink over this woman's head.

Sounds a little like Tony Clifton.

[ME!!!!]

The "Slap the dick out of your mouth" joke was tired. But I have to admit the physical assult was some fresh material.

[Citrus Mountain]

gotta love physical comedy

[CptPlanet]

i saw this video awhile back. i wonder if that comic ever worked again

[3v3+Z]

Originally posted by CptPlanet
i saw this video awhile back. i wonder if that comic ever worked again
Originally posted four posts above yours
I was trying to find out if this guy ever got anywhere or if he was ever even able to WORK again after this. The only thing I can find that seems to be about him is here (http://www.andrewshaman.com/ramblings.htm). Scroll WAY down to April 12, 2004. Looks like this guy is still active!

[3v3+Z]

Originally posted by 5InchTaint
Sounds a little like Tony Clifton.
Right, except Andy/Tony knew he was coming off as an asshole, and that was kind of the point. Plus, his "victim" was often -- or maybe always(?) -- a plant (Bob Zmuda). And everyone knows, if you don't water the plants, they'll die.

PRE-POST EDIT: I guess Zmuda couldn't have been the "victim" once he took over the "Tony Clifton" character.

[aw!tte]

If only the comic had been a prop comic-- to see him send a dude to the emergency room after smacking him around with a huge inflatable cock or rubber chicken or something would have been so gratifying.

As pussified pascifist as I might be, there are a thousand people I would love to clock with a guitar-- my real-life hecklers (bosses, parents, etc) are way more annoying and deserved of retaliation than some jag-off in a bar...

[3v3+Z]

What if someone clocked a heckler with an actual CLOCK? Then you might be able to get the audience back afterwards. For example, you could say, "I just clocked that guy with an actual CLOCK!!" "Wow, that's quite a gash there, buddy! Well, a stitch in time..." "You're lucky it wasn't the top of the hour, otherwise the bird might've gotten you!" "Boy, TIME really FLIES, huh?" "Well, it looks like I'm out of time, so..."

Then, as an encore, you'll be DOING time! Ooh! And what if you got arrested for battery, and you used an actual battery...




ANYWAY, Has it occurred to anyone how easily this could've been STAGED? You don't actually SEE anything. The audience reactions seem kind of odd, too. I just tried to do a Google News search for "Kenny Moore", but unfortunately it seems they stick to actual NEWS (as opposed to "OLDS" [all my results were from 2005]). Anyone have other suggestions for checking this out, or should we just take "Russ ______'s" word for it?

How did you stumble onto this, PUNT? My searches indicate that this has been circulating for years. It says on that site that it took place on Halloween 1993, but it doesn't say when they posted it on their site, that I see.

I'm gonna change my avatar to some Sherlock Holmes related thing.