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In reply to the discussion: CEO, Comedy Central: Take Daniel Tosh off the air [View all]slampoet
(5,032 posts)Just like Ballet, Just like a poetry reading just like mime, just like all of Broadway, classical, and a lot of performances.
Ever notice that almost every college sport has a band EXCEPT tennis,rowing, golf, track?
That is because in some areas any other rhythm or outside sound is Heckling.
Spend some time doing ANYTHING memorized onstage in the same room as a noisy espresso machine if you don't think that this person's interruption didn't derail the performance. If you think that it didn't then you are saying that this joke was part of Tosh's normal set which we know isn't true.
Think of the reaction if this person had complained about the rape scene in an opera?
If Tosh and the heckler are both adults then you have to hold them to the same level of responsibility for their actions. You can't say that Tosh should have had the empathy to know rape jokes are wrong and then absolve the person who interrupted by saying she shouldn't also have the empathy to know she is derailing the show. Whether or not an unfinished lead in to a rape joke that might have been an intelligent lampoon of rape culture (not likely w Tosh) is worth putting a whole room through that is up for debate, but make no mistake she is a Heckler.
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