Quotes by Heckling I do not want to encourage heckling and outbreaks at all. David Cross heckling outbreaks want Sometimes heckling can almost help a set, because it ratchets up the tension in the room... can even bring things to a climax. Demetri Martin heckling ratchets rooms Every week for me was the same audience, and every week they heckled me. The better I got at comedy, the better the audience was at heckling me. But it helped me with my joke writing. Felipe Esparza heckling comedy writing Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get stage time, and so I would go out to Pip's in Sheepshead Bay. Jim Gaffigan heckling combat common To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater. Lenny Bruce heckling nonsense theater