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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 31, 2013 17:03:26 GMT -5
I would think Chappelle would have been more creative than that. I've never heckled myself, but hecklers can actually make for great moments. I know some comics LOVE to deal with them. I would have thought Chappelle at least could have pulled that stunt where he eats his dinner on stage and doesn't say anything, which he has done before. Maybe he wasn't feeling hungry? No comedian enjoys being heckled. They might like ripping apart hecklers, but 99% of comedians would rather do their set than deal with some douche in the audience. Yeah, maybe I could have worded that better though I think it is more than 1 percent that actively enjoy having a heckler. Most love to rip them apart though. I'm sure plenty of guys have material just for that sort of thing. I know I've been to at least a show or two were comedians had obvious plants to heckles them just to launch into some tearing apart material.
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mizerable
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Post by mizerable on Aug 31, 2013 19:48:20 GMT -5
So much wrong with this. "Walking eggshells" =/= sitting down, not heckling and enjoying the show. Sorry that sounds so difficult for you to do. "You want an unruly audience?" NO! That's the whole point! Pointing to a shittier crowd does nothing except give an example of a shittier crowd. The crowd doesn't have a right to waste his time either. Why the hell would he want to deal with this stuff if he values his time? Dude, have you ever been to a comedy club? This isn't f***in' dinner theater or something. You're not guaranteed a super chill crowd, and a seasoned comedian like Dave Chapelle should know that. A lot of the people who went to this show apparently said that Dave overreacted. Again, they were coming back from intermission where Dave was unannounced, so good f***ing luck getting people in their seats as this is going on. It's like people coming into a movie as it starts, you're going to have people being inconvenient, even if they don't intend to be. So what about the people who were on their best behavior and did nothing wrong? I guess it's okay that they were gypped out of a performance because of a few people (again, I'm sure it was overblown). I just don't see the point of even doing stand up if you can't handle a few bad seeds.
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BigBadZ
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Post by BigBadZ on Aug 31, 2013 20:42:34 GMT -5
Maybe it's just me, but people give Dave WAY too much credit. The dude in the last decade has becomes increasingly pretentious. I say this as someone who does find him funny, but if I go to a performance, I'm not going to walk on eggshells with the fear I somehow irritate him. A few comments from the audience here and there are so f***ing commonplace...if you don't want to deal with that, you're in the wrong occupation. This doesn't sound like some kind of unruly audience. You want an unruly audience? Go listen to Bill Hicks talk about unruly audiences, then tell me which you'd prefer performing in front of. Just because he's Dave Chapelle doesn't mean it gives him the right to waste people's time. If he's lost in a routine or reading a book or talking about how he doesn't care and so forth...it just seems like he doesn't care to begin with. So much wrong with this. "Walking eggshells" =/= sitting down, not heckling and enjoying the show. Sorry that sounds so difficult for you to do. "You want an unruly audience?" NO! That's the whole point! Pointing to a shittier crowd does nothing except give an example of a shittier crowd. The crowd doesn't have a right to waste his time either. Why the hell would he want to deal with this stuff if he values his time? I don't disagree about the audience behavior but they aren't wasting his time because they paid. If he values his time enough to leave a performance early, he shouldn't value keeping the full amount of the ticket price his fans paid. If it's ok for a performer to leave whenever they want because they feel the crowd is wasting their time, what is to stop a band who charges $100+ per ticket to leave 30 minutes into the show??
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