Sooner or later, the infestation of crowd work content and "heckler destroyed" videos that plagues modern comedy was bound to metastasize into its purest form: an angry man in ill-fitting clothes ...

Not every audience member who speaks out during a comedy show is a heckler. But there's a way to test the waters without upsetting your audience, says comedian Paul F. Tompkins.By engaging in a civil ...