A video has emerged showing a stand-up comedian losing his cool at an audience for not laughing at his jokes. Take a look below:
The clip was shared by Reddit user AristonD in the subreddit Cringetopia - the title is pretty self-explanatory.
It seems as if the comedian was having a bad show, but rather than taking it on the chin and getting through the set, he decided to lecture the audience about why it’s all their fault.
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Talk about a bad day at the office.
While we don’t know a huge deal about the comedian, he started off the rant by saying he’d been doing stand up comedy for ten years.
He continues: “But this one night I’m going to realise every other audience was wrong and you’re right.
“Maybe I’m not funny right now but I don’t think you’re the one who’s going to derail this.”
Revealing to the crowd that he moved 3000 miles, gave up his life and toured Europe for four years, he says: “For some reason, right now, you think, ‘You’re not funny, f**k off.’”
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The comedian then told the crowd, who began to (seemingly sarcastly) applause and cheer: “Maybe you should accept this isn’t the easiest f**king gig in the world.
“I’m in a f**king corridor, the lights are one, everyone’s here at work parties. It’s hard, I’m trying, if you don’t like it, you f**k off.”
At this point, a woman in the crowd tells him to ‘stop swearing’, to which he responds: “Stop swearing? It’s comedy.
“If you wanted a clean comedy show, go to a clean comedy show. You don’t get to dictate what happens. Alright the show will continue now with less energy than before.”
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You can almost feel the awkwardness through the screen.
Safe to say, the internet had a lot to say about the outburst, with one Redditor commenting: “Having nights where you completely bomb is extremely common in stand up.
“You have to reflect on what went wrong and learn from it. This guy standing on stage b***hing and whining about bombing is just sad.
“Unless he learns some important lessons, he will get nowhere in the stand up world.”
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A second wrote: “Dude acting like he’s never heard of comics bombing before. Or heckling. Or how to write jokes.”
“Time for someone to consider a career change…,” commented another, while a fourth simply wrote: “Wow.”
Daisy Phillipson