Dealing With an Audience: Stand Up Comedy Tips

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"Grace: Ok, so, I'm Latina, so of course I got the butt, cause it's the law, I got the J. Lo booty right here check it out! Heckler: Yeah Shake That Booty! Grace: Well, you going to have to pay to touch it so shut up! All right so like I was saying, yes the booty. Heckler: Can I touch it?! Can I touch it?! Grace: Yeah, honey, it's going to cost you a thousand dollars and if you don't shut up it's going to be two thousand. Ok, going back to you people the ones that are not drunk like that poor idiot. Ok, yeah, the butt, yeah, totally, I got the big butt. You know what? I'm proud of it. I used to be totally embarrassed of it. Heckler: You're not funny! Grace: And I'm not proud of that person either, ok, if you keep talking we're going to have you just escorted out of here, you know what I mean? All right. So yeah you keep just, you know, talking and trying to shut them up. Heckler/Interviewer: That was good. Grace: That was just, you know, right off the top of my head. I've got it worse. Actually you were a nice heckler. The other day it was so weird. It was the weirdest heckler ever. This Latino guy, it was so weird, he was like 'I would not marry you!' I was like, Ok then that's because you're gay! And you know like I would totally, Ok. And then he just kept being mean to me and I was like, the audience was getting uncomfortable with him, and you know, I kept coming back at him and I'm just like not putting up with it but trying not to be mean at the same time because you can't be mean. Now if they get really mean, you can be mean, because the audience actually will want you to be mean to them to shut them up because they're uncomfortable. So I handled it really well, I was proud of myself, because every heckling experience is a completely different one, new one. It never repeats itself. You never get the same type of heckling. And so he was saying all these things and then I get off the stage and he was like, 'oh, you're the funniest woman I've ever seen. I love you! Oh, come here!' Then we danced together afterwards. So his way of showing love to me and appreciation was telling me I'm ugly and he would not marry me. I was like, OK! What ever! So Yeah, It's very insane and get ready to be called all kinds of things. I used to get upset and now I'm like, What ever!"