Peter Kay should he handle hecklers better?

[Doloresparton]

Apparently Peter Kay had 3 hecklers removed from his show on Saturday night.
One man, who was with his ds, kept shouting garlic bread.
The woman that was removed shouted I love you Peter Kay.

Should a renowned comedian handle hecklers with more wit or should ?drunk hecklers be thrown out.

He is great😃

Ugh granted I am not in the best of moods lately but these people who got thrown out were clearly very irritating. I find anyone who feels the need to chat or call out (or chew loudly!) just really annoying, be it at the theatre or cinema. Just shut up and let people watch in peace! What they said and did wasn't funny or witty either. He did right. And now they've both cashed in by pretending to be upset by it and selling story to daily mail. Annoying!

Same, totally agree with this

My daughter was actually sat next to garlic bread man.
When she sat down he asked her if she was English.

He was up and down to the bar and the loo, when a couple further along the row complained about the number of times they had to stand up for him he said to them 'what do you want me to do, fucking piss on you? '

Peter Kay did the right thing.

Famous heckler put down of yesteryear from Billy Connolly
‘I don’t come to your work and tell you how to sweep floors’

if people enjoy heckler interaction and crowd work check out Matt Rife.

Exactly. Woke up still half cut thinking I didnt make quite enough of a chunt of myself last night, what could I do to make an even bigger chunt of myself...? Cretins thinking they can be part of the show, get invited to the after party and be Peter's pals 😂

I regularly go to smaller venue comedy shows and it's a lot of fun. Theres a huge difference between to and fro with the audience and a drunk twat shouting out rubbish and constantly interrupting the show. Usually the comedian can handle it with crowd people pressure. No one wants to listen to a drunken idiot shouting but banter between the audience and comic is great.

Al Murray the pub landlord does a massive amount of crowd work and it's great fun. Harry Hill gets the audience playing games and messing about and is a lot of fun with the audience. But i prefer the intimacy if a smaller club and that kind of atmosphere, I'd not fancy a huge palladium show.

i saw frankie boyle get heckledd by a drunk twat wasnt even funny

was the woman with garlic bread man or a seprate heckler

I'm not sure why anyone would think the general public would be happy to have paid to listen to a random nobody bellowing garlic bread on repeat? Not exactly the height of witty entertainment is it.

Based on the immediate running to the media for sympathy reaction though perhaps the poor soul really did think people wanted to hear his nonsense. Can only assume he was the child who shouted out and disrupted classes in school and then never grew out of it.

OP's random interjections and irrelevant comments in this thread are surreal lol

He flies home every night from wherever he’s performing as he doesn’t like being away from the family.

I've seen hecklers eviscerated by people like Frankie Boyle and Jimmy Carr, the woman now complaining in the sun about being called Lisa Riley 😂 and Peter Kay's response I didn't realise that was an insult, she does look remarkably like Lisa Riley and it's such a nineties reference. I heard Peter Kay had lost his way a bit comedically but this sounds like he's on form.
They deserved whatever they got IMO.

yeah they were rightly removed. People like that aren’t just annoying for the comic, they’re annoying for everyone around them. And unless the comic is happy giving a bit of back and forth, then the hecklers deserve what they get.
How people can be so un-self aware never fails to shock me. I recently had a long (delayed on board) flight with a large family group sitting in front of me, spread across a few rows. The adults and kids were constantly shouting “I’m a real boy now” in a squeaky voice (from Shrek I guess) over and over again. I had a miserable baby and honestly just wanted to slap each one of them around the head to shut up. People like that, with no sense of how they might be bothering other people, or assuming other people will find them hilarious are just plane twats.

And the woman complaining about being compared to Lisa Riley. LOL! She looked just like her! I bet if PK made that joke about another woman she’d think it was hilarious.

i saw Paul Merton at the comedy club years ago. My then boyfriend decided to heckle him. Paul Merton decided to make him the joke for his performance and he is far kinder in his responses now then he was then

we edged away from my boyfriend (who wasn’t a boyfriend for long I just want to add) he was humiliated but deservedly so

There are different kinds of hecklers. The ones who want banter and can be quelled by a good comedian with great come backs and the ones who are just bladdered, hostile and/or will never shut up regardless of a good comeback from the comedian. This second type just ruin things and no amount of come back will make them shut up. Those ones need removing

Dh has met Peter Kay and seen him live ( separate occasions) both times he said he was great. The time he met him he said he was very pleasant. Being polite and respectful when you meet someone helps, and acknowledging that they are not their to have selfies with you or even owe you anything.
I absolutely agree that a lot of people have lost their manners. I really, really don’t want to hear your screaming kids when I’m at work. It’s totally unnecessary. Think bringing your entire family to the dentist whist it is only the mother who needs treatment.
As for Peter Kay, his show is more of a running commentary rather than quick one liners. I can see his it woukd disrupt his throw and ruin the show. Well done to him for getting the hecklers thrown out.

Absolutely agree with this. Comedians don't mind a witty comeback. Comedians can't do anything with a drunk who won't shut up and they need to be gone.

She was separate I think.
The piece I read was in The Times and talked about other comedians too.
It was quite informative.
I think the response on here is generally that these people were more idiots than hecklers and just spoiling the show for everyone.

He wanted to have his dinner quietly and leave just like every other member of the general public. Nobody is entitled to have a picture with someone, not should they feel obliged to. Disappointing for the staff no doubt but they'll live.

I agree people have the right to privacy but there was a kind of underlying I’m sure that if they had privacy while at eating they’d have a minute with the staff when they leave.

The management cordoned off half the restaurant for the group if I remember correctly to give them peace and so they wouldn’t be disturbed by other diners. The management could have said sorry no. It works both ways.

As I say it was many years ago now but I didn’t think it was such a big ask personally

I don't get the desperation to have pictures with /autographs of celebrities tbh.

Why anybody would have a shred of sympathy for someone either entitled enough or pissed enough (or likely both) to disrupt a performance is beyond me.
If you can’t behave properly you should be removed straightaway.

I agree. At our performance I was annoyed with the floor staff/ venue for ignoring it.

I agree. I couldn’t care less personally as they’re just people but some people love it.

Jesus, now her dad's sad facing in the daily mail saying how his daughter did nothing wrong and only tried to start a chant to let Peter know she loved him. What are these people on 😳.

I listened to Peter Kay reading his autobiography and he said that in real life he's really shy and the person on stage cracking jokes isn't actually him, but a kind of persona. The real Peter is watching him in wonder from the wings. Its must be overwhelming at times people wanting autographs and stuff when he's not 'on'.
That might be why some people have found in standoffish IRL too.