I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.
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.
Humor heals the heckler.
I talk kinda slow, especially for the Northeast, so it was a way to beat [would-be hecklers] to the punch.
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.
There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.
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.
My timing is so precise, a heckler would have to make an appointment just to get a word in.
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?
I love hecklers. They remind you that you are a comedian.
