Hecklers getting Destroyed!

Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
edited July 2021 in Off Topic Chat
I've been meaning to start a thread on this for a good while now as it's something that I wanted to highlight - the destruction of tedious hecklers wherever they turn up by the speaker they are relentlessly heckling. I intend to post some video examples of hecklers being destroyed and perhaps we can discuss them in this thread. Of course, please feel free to upload your own videos/stories/anecdotes etc. of hecklers getting destroyed by a speaker wherever it may have occurred over the years.

Here's the first such video from YouTube - an excerpt from the BBC coverage of the 1979 British General Election and the announcement that then Prime Minister James Callaghan MP had been returned to his Cardiff East seat (though he of course lost the General Election to the Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher). Here he deals with another candidate for the constituency - a selfish heckler called Pat Arrowsmith very well and very professionally in my view. It's also rather funny in places and not at all dry in content:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv0-stddBto

I'd love to hear your views on this thread and this first video we will be looking at.

Let's get a good and fun debate going here! :) -{
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).

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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    edited July 2021
    Here's another YouTube clip, this time of my favourite stand-up comedian Stewart Lee deconstructing a heckler in the way only he can -

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZQod7j-Cak

    :))
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I remember a discussion between a few comedians, who said many hecklers
    Think they're doing the comic a favour, helping out almost. 8-) They haven't
    Figured out that Comedians work for ages on routines, timing stories to get the
    Laughs in the right places. It must be terrible for a comic to be starting a good 10
    minute routine about , childbirth only to have some numpty jump in Two minutes in
    Destroying his timing and well worked out act. X-(
    I think some hecklers think the comic just tells jokes that come in to his head on
    Stage and have no idea of rehearsals and fine tuning material.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb6DkVSJTGo
    Ten minutes of Jimmy Carr dealing with various hecklers. :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • always shakenalways shaken LondonPosts: 6,287MI6 Agent
    Ive seen Chubby Brown live ,and his put down of hecklers is just brill ,he dosnt get int conversation with them ,he just calls them a very rude name ,the audience rolls up with laughter,drowns out the heckler
    By the way, did I tell you, I was "Mad"?
  • hehadlotsofgutshehadlotsofguts Durham England Posts: 2,112MI6 Agent
    He's brilliant AS. I have 3 of his dvds.

    Dave Spikey as Jerry St Clair destroying a heckler.


    https://youtu.be/NjI3Uf_gynI
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  • always shakenalways shaken LondonPosts: 6,287MI6 Agent
    I do sometimes think with Chubbs,that his crowd ,heckle on purpose ,just so he can abuse them ,great Northern humour
    By the way, did I tell you, I was "Mad"?
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    Obama disarms heckler's nuclear question:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-6HX62ZoPc
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,331MI6 Agent
    I think I'll be the heckler of this thread and defend the hecklers :v

    Once when the author Jens Bjørneboe attended a lecture someone from the audience shouted: "Speak louder!" Bjørneboe joined in and shouted: "And be funnier!" :))
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I always remember an old Billy Connolly video, in which he tells a heckler
    " I don't go to your place of work, and tell you how to clean toilets !" :D
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    I think I'll be the heckler of this thread and defend the hecklers :v

    Once when the author Jens Bjørneboe attended a lecture someone from the audience shouted: "Speak louder!" Bjørneboe joined in and shouted: "And be funnier!" :))

    Well yes, of course heckling works both ways - something I should probably mentioned in the OP.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    edited March 2018
    Although I don't care very much for Bill Clinton (or his wife for that matter) I did find this response to a heckler who enquired about Clinton visiting the Bohemian Grove club rather funny as he was speaking to an obvious conspiracy theorist who probably doesn't leave the confines of his PC very often:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8y-FPQlNfI
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    Some very interesting videos on UK political heckling from yesteryear:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLg9MAbHds8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXSMdwdkdmM

    The Hecklers (1966) film in full - Newsnight

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRjDusinQdc&t=874s
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • IanFryerIanFryer Posts: 327MI6 Agent
    always shaken wrote:
    I do sometimes think with Chubbs,that his crowd ,heckle on purpose ,just so he can abuse them ,great Northern humour

    I'm not the world's biggest Chubby Brown fan, but he did come up with one memorable put down to a heckler:

    "Haven't I seen you on television - interference."
  • IanFryerIanFryer Posts: 327MI6 Agent
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    I've been meaning to start a thread on this for a good while now as it's something that I wanted to highlight - the destruction of tedious hecklers wherever they turn up by the speaker they are relentlessly heckling. I intend to post some video examples of hecklers being destroyed and perhaps we can discuss them in this thread. Of course, please feel free to upload your own videos/stories/anecdotes etc. of hecklers getting destroyed by a speaker wherever it may have occurred over the years.

    Here's the first such video from You Tube - an excerpt from the BBC coverage of the 1979 British General Election and the announcement that then Prime Minister James Callaghan MP had been returned to his Cardiff East seat (though he of course lost the General Election to the Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher). Here he deals with another candidate for the constituency - a selfish heckler called Pat Arrowsmith very well and very professionally in my view. It's also rather funny in places and not at all dry in content:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv0-stddBto

    I'd love to hear your views on this thread and this first video we will be looking at.

    Let's get a good and fun debate going here! :) -{

    Remembering those times, I do have a little sympathy for Pat Arrowsmith, as almost no debate on Northern Ireland was permitted in the English media at the time. Ironically, ranting in that way was the only way she could gain access to the mainstream media, but it also ensured that she didn't put forward anything approaching a coherent argument and that nobody listened.
  • IanFryerIanFryer Posts: 327MI6 Agent
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    Some very interesting videos on UK political heckling from yesteryear:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLg9MAbHds8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXSMdwdkdmM

    The Hecklers (1966) film in full - Newsnight

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRjDusinQdc&t=874s

    Thank you for this - not had time to watch the whole thing yet, but Harold Wilson was very good at put-downs. Politicians of his era were more used to public meetings than the stage-managed robots we often see today.
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent

    Some stand up heckling from Duncan Thicket (aka Steve Coogan):

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5znEizruC5E

    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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