Tuesday night I was in Birmingham Al, at a comedy club called the Stardome. The place was packed with 400+ of the drunkest, rudest people in the 205. Three comics went up ahead of me and they all bombed miserably other than the opening act, he barely survived. There was one table of Yahoos that kept yelling out and heckling, so I figured I would go right after them when I got up. I hit them with my best heckle lines, mocked them, and goaded them into an interaction with me that I couldn't help but win, HELL, I'VE DONE THIS BEFORE! My final line to them after about 5 minutes of abuse was, "The only difference between me and you guys, is that they(the audience) like me!" The crowd screamed and the fools were escorted out of the building to 400 people singing, nah, nah, hey, hey, hey, goodbye (led by yours truly). So I went on to have a pretty strong set and ended up getting the standing O after an hour on stage. After the show, I went outside with the other performers to sell my CD, and all of a sudden a white pick-up truck (who'd da thunk it) rolled up behind me and 2 of the guys got out and started walking toward me. After a bit of gas passed through my britches, I started to go into "run" mode, but one of the smaller security guys intervened and radioed for additional help. I felt helpless as they SCREAMED at me, "come own funny man, come own!" People were watching, girls were giggling and in spite of my best tough guy look, I allowed myself to be escorted sheepishly back into the club. I'm pretty tough but I refuse to beat up two characters that were obviously not ready for all this.
wow...man, i'm just glad you're safe! see..ya need to hire me to go with you on these things. i could have screamed really loud and ran around in circles to attract attention to the problem.
Wow! I wouldn't want to be in your line of work right now bro! May be you should switch up clubs or something just to be safe
maybe they just wanted to buy a cd???......seeing as they missed the show and all. (glad you're ok...you gotta know when to hold 'em...know when to fold 'em... know when to walk away...and know when to run....)
"The only difference between me and you guys, is that they(the audience) like me!" _________ OMG! That is the meanest thing i've ever heard ~ those guys must have felt lower than a snake's shadow.
Glad you are ok. Man, I wonder if those guys are circling their calenders for your next show there. That would suck.
this happened in vancouver last week...thank god this didn't happen to you. http://www.canada.com/entertainment/story.html?id=085fb0ae-d844-49af-adee-54b97fcf0960 it was smart to get in the club...cuz we all know those b****es couldn't handle those fists of steel ...and had you used them, you'd be in big trouble right now.
AB, I for one and glad that you did the smart thing. Not always the macho thing, but smart none the less. I always look for to you threads and hope to someday see your act.
let me just tell you the words that stood out, and why I am glad you are okay, and please dont take this the wrong way 1. Another Brother 2. Birmingham, Alabama 3. Any combination of drunk and pick-up truck Ive been saying it for years, bring your act to NYC Brother!
Not mean Homey, just a very clever way to get the audience to cheer on my behalf. You should get out more often.
See, white guys harass stand-up comics and threaten them with bodily injury for telling a bunch of harmless jokes like this...
