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heckler

[ hek-ler, hek-uh-ler ]

noun

  1. a person who harasses a public speaker or performer with impertinent questions, insults, etc.:

    As a comedian, you have to face any hecklers in the crowd head-on and deal with them, because if you don't, they can take over the show.



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But then in 2011 he weaponized comedy, slicing and dicing his political rivals in the same way a comedian deals with a heckler.

Whatever points heckler Ellen Sturtz was looking to score, the first lady was not playing.

Glaser says attacking the audience is off-limits, though she did call a heckler a “c--t” once.

His “joke” was reactive to the so-called heckler who called him out in front of an audience.

“You can hold your own rally,” the president told the heckler.

Then the bearded attorney, whose fame was secure as a heckler of witnesses, rose dramatically from his chair.

He wondered, at first in a vague sort of way, why he was such an ardent heckler.

As a heckler he was something fearsome; they had to seat him on the platform for to keep him quiet.

He was a stout man, dressed in a dark jacket, and had the appearance of a heckler.

He was a stout man dressed in a drab jacket and had the appearance of a heckler.

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