A very long time ago..
in a small comedy club far, far away, a semi-famous old comic was doing rather badly and not getting many laughs. My brother, a regular at the club, heckled him the whole way through, and was getting bigger laughs. Finally the old comic turned and said "if you think you can do any better, you get up here"...so my brother did. He told a few jokes (obviously robbed from other people) but got lots of laughs and applause. The next week in the paper it was announced that sadly, said comic had retired.

Another time I was at Up the Creek with a few people including my dad and his wife (both very, very drunk). Toward the end of the night there was a very bad comic with a guitar (the worst kind). He was shit. My Dad's wife decided to heckle, but unfortunately the best one her alcohol riddled mind could come up with was "Are you from Australia?" at the top of her lungs. Stunned, the comic asked her to repeat what she said, which she did. It was completely random. The comic just stood there for a few seconds in silence, then flipped his guitar round to show the back which in big letters said "Fuck off". My Dad's wife was then kindly asked to leave by the doorman.
( JimmerUK Everyone's Favourite Jim, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 14:11, Reply)