You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.
I always find a couple of hecklers. . . I'll kinda look at them, stare at 'em, and let them know I can't be stopped.
I'm fat positive, in that I don't see fat as a bad thing. But what I do see as a bad thing is how I'm treated. I can have the most positive outlook in the world, but that is not going to change how hecklers and people walking down the street are yelling at me.
Even if you get a joke right you've done it a thousand times and sometimes there's times where it just doesn't work or someone doesn't agree with you. And I want to show that. I have had more hecklers because that's part of comedy is arguments, you know?
Humor heals the heckler.
There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.
I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.
My timing is so precise a heckler would have to make an appointment just to get a word in.
I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.
I love hecklers. They remind you that you are a comedian.
In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.
I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren't hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they're excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.
I talk kinda slow, especially for the Northeast, so it was a way to beat [would-be hecklers] to the punch.
