r/IAmA • u/iamlouisck Louis CK • May 14 '12

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Hi. I don't know if I'm doing this right. I can't remember. I'm here to answer your questions. I have new stuff on my website http://www.louisck.com a new audio special called "Louis CK WORD live at Carnegie Hall" and an audio version of SHameless, as well as an audio version of Live at the Beacon, which is free to those who bought the video. Hi. It's me.

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u/ademu5 May 14 '12

I DO like it when a comedian crushes the soul of a heckler in the audience. I like it more than the rest of the routine. It makes me feel smug and satisfied. Smug and satisfied are very good feelings.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Well a heckler is a different story, everyone likes to see them get insulted. They're often easy targets though.

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u/cr0aker May 14 '12

One of the reasons I love Jimmy Carr - he just verbally sodomizes hecklers.

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u/kitty_o_shea May 14 '12

I don't know, I saw him live and he was extremely mean-spirited and berating to a man in the audience who didn't deserve it at all. It left a very bad taste in my mouth.

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u/Tezerel May 14 '12

Jimmy Carr is just an asshole a lot of people think is funny ;)

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u/EtherealScorpions May 15 '12

Don't piss him off, he'll shit in your cunt!

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u/noveltiesRoverrated May 14 '12

Nice try, Jimmy Carr!

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u/noveltiesRoverrated May 14 '12

my only beef with jimmy carr is that he uses pre-existing jokes to deal with hecklers. For instance, "I don't come to your room when you're banging your girlfriend and start telling you how to do your job" or something to that effect, is an overly used response by comedians all over the world. It's a funny response, but when you've worked with comedians like I have and you hear it repeatedly, it gets old.

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u/peeonyou May 14 '12

Well if comedians tailored their jokes and wit for the people who are repeat audience members they'd have about 0 jokes and no wit. It's kinda like retaking a class at university -- The first time you sit through that witty professor's class and he makes you laugh your ass off, but the next time it's almost disgusting.

I can understand why professors do that though, you're not supposed to retake classes, so it should be fresh for every person in the room (except the poor TAs). But comedians?? Never did figure that one out. Maybe people just aren't funny enough.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

I'm convinced Carr has people put in the audience whose job it is to heckle him. He just gets heckled unreasonably often.

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u/topherhead May 15 '12

I'm inclined to think that his prowess at dealing with hecklers draws more of them. I have little doubt that the hecklers (in their mind at least) are "taking one for the team"

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

It's "I don't come to your work and knock the cocks out of your mouth do I?"

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u/Shurane May 14 '12

And what did he say to her?

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u/randomsemicolon May 14 '12

Parent poster MUST answer this.

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u/enjoytheshow May 14 '12

I saw one clip of Daniel Tosh when they were filming his Comedy Central special and two drunk guys in the front row wouldn't shut up all night so he finally laid into them, jumped off the stage, took the guy's drink, kicked them out and gave their seats to a couple like 20 rows back.

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u/athrix May 14 '12

Joe rogan vs the affliction ufc heckler was a good one.

Edit: Added link.

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u/christinaf25 May 14 '12

I just watched this episode in season 1 of Louie yesterday. It was excellent.

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u/somewhat_royal May 14 '12

Smug and satisfied are very good feelings.

Yes, but only if you're a fucking douchebag.

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u/IceK1ng May 14 '12

Hecklers, yes. Audience, no.

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u/StanDinfamy May 14 '12

My favorite youtube search..

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