HecklesForget the drunk bloke at the back yelling incoherent nonsense. Sometimes a well placed heckle can raise a mediocre act to a brilliant night out.
Tell us your best heckles and, if you are brave, the retorts that put you back in your place like the maggot you are.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 13:13)
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Not so much a heckle, but....I was in Amsterdam on a work trip and we got dragged to this god awful 'comedy' dinner theatre full of god awful Americans, to watch an improvised sketch show by other god awful Americans. One of them was doing this skit that involved asking people in the audience for a job they did in the past and making a sketch out of it. All these god awful Americans came back with 'lawyer', 'car salesman', 'clerk' etc etc
They came and asked me and I thought for a few seconds and said 'yeast siever'.
The bloke looked stumped, laughed, then said 'no really, what did you do?'.
I said I was a yeast siever.
He then asked me what a yeast siever was, and I gave a quick explanation.
He looked even more stumped.
He then asked me to elaborate, which I did, at length.
He looked even more stumped, looked round deploringly at his somewhat aghast colleagues, climbed back on the stage and sat down. And one of his colleagues jumped up to continue onto the next pointless unfunny skit.
Not sure what happened there. Did he think I was taking the piss? Did he not understand my quaint English accent? Did he have some morbid flashback to a dreadful accident involving some yeast that resulted in his entire family being decapitated?
Or was he just a third rate comic appearing in some third rate venue who realised that he was so third rate he couldn't even make up something funny about what is most probably one of the most bizarre and funny sounding jobs in the world?
I nonchalantly carried on drinking my overpriced Sea Breeze cocktail, paid for by my boss.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 16:11, Reply)
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