{"id":2489,"date":"2025-03-18T09:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2025-03-20T18:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:30:18","slug":"jimmy-carr-boots-out-rowdy-heckler-after-punches-fly-in-audience-during-his-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/jimmy-carr-boots-out-rowdy-heckler-after-punches-fly-in-audience-during-his-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Carr boots out rowdy heckler after \u2018punches fly in audience\u2019 during his show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JImmy Carr booted a heckler out of his show on Sunday evening, it is reported (Picture: Thomas M Jackson\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jimmy Carr<\/a> firmly put a heckler in their place – out of the door – at his Birmingham<\/a> gig on Sunday evening, it is reported.<\/p>\n

The 8 Out of 10 Cats comedian, 52,<\/a> was forced to intervene in an audience spat after a heckler annoyed their neighbours so much a punch was thrown. <\/p>\n

Just last month, Kay ordered for a man to be removed<\/a> from the audience after he repeatedly shouted, ‘Garlic bread!,’ during the comedian’s show.<\/p>\n

At Jimmy’s show, audience members sitting next to the heckler threatened to walk out and one of them – a man – was reportedly held back by his partner after he appeared to aim a punch at the rowdy individual.<\/p>\n

After being alerted to the commotion, Jimmy<\/a> stopped his show and told the four fans who were threatening a premature exit to take their seats. He then directed his signature no-nonsense delivery to the heckler, who was sitting in the front row of the first tier. <\/p>\n

An onlooker told MailOnline<\/a>: ‘Four people got up to leave and one of them had to be held back from hitting the heckler.<\/p>\n

‘Then Jimmy intervened, he told the four fans to sit down and said to the heckler, “You’re blind drunk, you’re probably on cocaine, so I’ll give you three choices.<\/p>\n

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The comedian put the audience member down in his trademark blunt style (Picture: Anthony Harvey\/Getty Images for Advertising Week)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

”’You can either get up and leave, go away and come back and see me again, or you can sit there, refuse to go and I’ll get security”.’<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the audience member refused to budge and Jimmy was forced to call over security, who escorted the heckler – and his female companion – out of the Birmingham Symphony Hall.<\/p>\n

The eyewitness added: ‘Everyone started cheering and Jimmy referred to the Peter Kay incident a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

‘”There must be something in the water at these comedy gigs at the moment.”‘<\/p>\n

This is part of a trend, Metro<\/strong> discovered in an investigation last year. <\/p>\n

In the past few years there has been an increase in the threat of violence for comedians<\/a> from audience members – and the trend goes deeper than being a side effect of the pandemic, as initially suspected.<\/p>\n

\u2018I had to leave a gig in Leicester once because this woman was gearing up to glass me in the face,\u2019 Fern Brady<\/a> revealed. \u2018This is not unusual in British comedy.\u2019  <\/p>\n

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This comes after Peter Kay asked for a man to be sent out for repeatedly shouting, ‘Garlic bread!’, during his show (Picture: Shirlaine Forrest\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Co-founder of Comedy Bloomers Kuan-wen Huang recalled how one audience member came up to him during a break at a gig and accused him of \u2018lying about living in Bermondsey\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018The violence thing is true,\u2019 he said. \u2018Everything after Brexit is a bit weird. It\u2019s a whole country that\u2019s lost its mojo and doesn\u2019t know where to go.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018I think it\u2019s the political climate that\u2019s caused this rise,\u2019 Benjamin Bankole Bello said, having experienced racist abuse while on stage as his character President Obonjo. <\/p>\n

He explained: \u2018If you think about the climate for Britain at the moment, where people blame immigrants and migrants for everything, I think that has also played into the psyche of people.’ <\/p>\n

Cultural studies scholar and Bristol University lecturer Dr Kirsty Sedgman told us that this shift is a symptom of a wider cultural division. <\/p>\n

\u2018When we see sudden societal shifts, or frustrations, they often tend to erupt first in live performance venues. I think that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing happening here,\u2019 she said. <\/p>\n

\u2018It would be too simplistic to blame it all on the pandemic.’ <\/p>\n

Got a story?<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk<\/a> entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff<\/a> page – we\u2019d love to hear from you.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JImmy Carr booted a heckler out of his show on Sunday evening, it is reported (Picture: Thomas M Jackson\/Getty Images) Jimmy Carr firmly put a heckler in their place – out of the door – at his Birmingham gig on Sunday evening, it is reported. The 8 Out of 10 Cats comedian, 52, was forced to intervene in an audience spat after a heckler annoyed their neighbours so much a punch was thrown. Just last month, Kay ordered for a … Continue reading “Jimmy Carr boots out rowdy heckler after \u2018punches fly in audience\u2019 during his show”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}