This one is about this crowd; do they have the same amount heckling over here that people came in with?
Not really, the big! You just have!
The big difference would be, if you do a gig in say London or a theater in—people are sitting there before I go, but this will be rubbish, whereas here, it is like, “It would be brilliant.” It is just sort of an upbeat happy thing that you get from having sunshine, unlike in my country where you have different forms of rain.
What do you do? How do you deal with it? Can you threaten people?
We play the rocky theme at them and they normally—they know not to mess with you anymore.
To be honest, the only heckling I get over here is if it is like a really drunk late night show because my kind of style, when you see me come out first, you do not want to mess with me and so most of the guys who are doing shows, and when you do a show, it is not really the place to heckle because it upsets the rhythm. If you are just doing a regular gig, yes, fair enough!
Well, what I find in Adelaide, in fact there is this certain amount of—you would not even call it heckling because people are shouting out stuff that came into their heads and just said, that reminds me of something or just this pointless, but quite amusing—but it is not even heckling, it is just someone talking and we are taking part and in general, I do not know if they have ever had an aggressive or a difficult heckle here, I mean, obviously—last year, I found it surprisingly polite in fact and not keen for you to reach with sensibilities. It was nice!
Not really, because sometimes when you do that, it tends to becomes just heck!
Heck really quickly and I stand up to go and just all of these like put downs, I think it is much better to deal with every individual situation even if it means that you are on the spot a bit and that is what brings good familiarity. If you go without thinking if I get any trouble, I am good talk, you just know that—it is easy to get the lines of thought by doing like a stock, but you do not hate yourself.
And sometimes, it is just an audience wants to be involved when they should not which is normally when they are loaded and they cannot really contribute much to the situation, but I am fine with that, I am happy to deal with hecklers! I have only had one heckle that really hurt my feelings and it was in Coventry and I was—I was like—the most depressing note of my life as it was, but one of the audience, this little old man got up and during my set, he walked out and stopped by the stage to say, “I am going home now.” And I said, okay, goodbye. And he goes, “Yeah, I paid to see a comedian.”
A little old man, he looked so nice and he just kept me down for the rest of the show, I was crying in the inside, it was horrible.
Do you have any kind of like comebacks or anything like that?
Normally, I do! But not with a little old man who just completely catches me down to the bottom. I tried to say, “Dad, you are drunk, go home! “ But all I got was, “Ah!” It was awful! It was so depressing. Long drive back to London from Coventry that night and it was awful!
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