God I love hecklers

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

There’s nothing to make an otherwise boring situation interesting like a good heckler. Obviously, by the nature of that statement, a bad heckler can be close to the most painful thing ever, but: when it’s good, it’s good.

What’s even better about a heckler is that their material doesn’t have to be the best. It just has to illicit a response from the person being heckled. For instance, a comedian totally destroying someone in the crowd, or an athlete punching the fan in the face.

While cruising digg, I came across this video of a press conference going on with O.J. Simpson’s lawyer. Now, I could care less about Stabby McKill Kill and his latest legal trouble, but I have to say this guy made watching it totally awesome. He is almost so great that I wonder if he wasn’t a plant. He looks a bit like one of Val Kilmer’s characters in The Saint.

Other great hecklers in history include:

  1. Joe Rogan in Vegas:
  2. Jamie Foxx destroying a fellow comic:
  3. And of course, the classic “Jackass” sequence from Happy Gilmore:

Do you have a great heckling moment caught on video that I forgot? Leave a link in the comments and I’ll add it to the post.