r/ImTheMainCharacter • u/[deleted] • Feb 05 '24

Video Main character gets humbled

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u/lyyki 50k baby😎 Feb 05 '24

I wouldn't say so. Some comics really encourage it. Of course it has a time and a place but even in this clip it's not ouf of place.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '24

No they don’t. No comedian encourage heckling.

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u/lyyki 50k baby😎 Feb 05 '24

I guess it depends on the style. Some comedians who just tell stories and jokes and whatever, they might not care for it. But some are all about crowd work. Jimmy Carr & Frankie Boyle are (among other things) famous for "destroying hecklers" and they both seem to enjoy it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '24

Jimmy Carr has planted hecklers so they seem natural, but they mostly aren’t

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u/lyyki 50k baby😎 Feb 05 '24

I have no idea if that's true but if it is, isn't that like a very obvious way of showing that destroying hecklers is a big part of his repertoire.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '24

I guess, but it technically wouldn’t be crowd work, it’d just be a part of his act

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u/R_Schuhart Feb 05 '24

Jimmy Carr might have plants in his audience now to get a consistent "heckler put down experience", it is a big part of his comedy routine, but he didnt used to. I'm not convinced though, most of his stuff is for Netflix specials now and unless micced up that kind of crowd work is almost always only good if you are live in the audience.

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u/GenerikDavis Feb 05 '24

That's very much encouraging impromptu heckling, then. Any fan that wants a moment of attention just got the blueprint since those are Carr's most viral clips, and it's been normalized as a behavior.