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Quotes About Heckling

I've never been heckled. I think because I look too small and vulnerable. Sometimes I look out into the audience and see pity in their eyes, so I guess those people may be the ones who would shout something out if they didn't feel so sorry for me.
~ Amy Hoggart
I don't really get heckled! I think it's because I might burst into song at any moment and even rude people have a weird respect for not interrupting singing!
~ Rachel Parris
When I'm a fan, I show up to boo. I don't show up to cheer; I show up to heckle.
~ Chael Sonnen
Humor heals the heckler.
~ Gerald C. Meyers
The guys had made log benches for spectators, back when they were twelve and had visions of every girl in class lining those benches, swooning as they showed off in the ring. Never quite worked out that way--if there were spectators, they were more likely to be heckling than swooning--but the memory made me smile as I lowered myself quietly onto the bench behind Daniel.
~ Kelley Armstrong
When being bullied or heckled, refuse to show the emotion the bully wants. Gain the audience's sympathy by trying to look calm and above it all.
~ Jay Heinrichs
Whenever Mosley was heckled at one of his rallies, he stopped speaking and searchlights focused on the heckler as jackbooted men beat him and then threw him out of the hall.
~ Adam Hochschild
I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that.
~ Holly Hunter
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.
~ Jim Gaffigan
I have the comedian's fear of bottles flying. I've never been bottled off, but I have had things thrown at me. Bag of crisps. And there's still a part of me, when I sit in an audience, that thinks people are going to start heckling the play.
~ Patrick Marber
I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.
~ Richard Dawkins
I can handle boos. Boos entertain me.
~ Matt Riddle
I love being out there. as an audience member. It gives the audience a little bit of something different. Like, why are these wrestlers sitting in the audience? And why are they heckling at this guy and that guy?
~ Shawn Spears
Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.
~ Aziz Ansari
I do a bit called, 'You go, girl!' where I say, 'Don't tell me 'You go, girl!' I get it. I don't need you encourage me.' And nine times out of 10 after I finish the bit, some guy in the back will yell 'You go, girl!' I get a lot of that or 'I hear ya!' I don't generally - knock on fake wood - get mean heckling.
~ Retta
to be a high-school English teacher in modern Britain is to be a bad comedian in a hostile club. You have to deliver your terrible material six times a day to a crowd that would rather be somewhere else. And the heckling is vicious and it never ever stops.
~ Stephen May
I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.
~ Johnny Vegas
I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that.
~ Kurt Russell
Let's say there was a fat guy heckling me. I would rip him to shreds, but I would never go for the obvious, never talk about how he's fat or anything.
~ Judah Friedlander
The first time I ever did stand up comedy a guy yelled out "Down in front". So I just sat down and watched the rest of the movie.
~ Unknown
I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.
~ Paul Daniels
Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.
~ Hari Kondabolu
You've got to be stupid to heckle me - I am very equipped to win.
~ Lewis Black