Some of those heckles were actually pretty good, but Jimmy's just too good.

He's too good at this stuff, I've seen several videos of him and he's extremely quick on his toes with heckles and quick one liners.

No Jigga, you are wrong as well. The people who filmed this wish only to expose the rampant encroachment of the police into every aspect of civil society. The advent of technology in the hands of most people and the increasing awareness of the growing police state worldwide is one of the many stopgaps to a bleak future of decreased human rights and control of humanity by a small majority of agenda-oriented tyrants.

As far as police 'turning into' shitbag assholes? NO. Again you are wrong and completely clueless as tho the psychological profiling that goes on in the process towards someone becoming a 'law enforcement' dickbag.

Alpha types with low intellect and questionable imprint and socialization. Many come from abusive homes or generations of law enforcement. Many in the U.S. are members of or are sympathetic to, the clan and other such organizations or fraternities. MOST are racist, sexist, etc. Many police, were they not accepted into academies of sanctioned thugs would become criminals. Some were very close to becoming gang members, petty criminals, etc.

They dredge from the damaged-goods of society to fill their ranks, and this only gets worse as people like you, and others detached from what really goes on, continue to come the defense of force as a means to control society.

Cops definitely don't need any help form a deluded general public to grow in ranks or develop new and improved ways to exercise force as an arm of those who would control society to their ends.

I can do this all fucking day long, and there will still be the voices of insipid dullards who have by choice, drunk the Kool Aide of "give a fuck as long as I have my MTV."

If you'd have a " bad attitude too if someone was heckling me for my entire career," chances are good you'd make an excellent state thug or sympathizer to the cause of safety over freedom.

Your argument is pathetic and week.

I've seen excessive force, this wasn't anything crazy. What do you expect arresting someone who's resisting arrest to look like?

The police even politely explained afterward to the curious public, something they didn't have to do.

In truth, police turn into shitbag assholes because of people posting videos like this making it seem like they're bad guys when really they're not doing anything wrong. I'd have a bad attitude too if someone was heckling me for my entire career.

Was there a Heckler? I thought someone just walked out. Since when is that heckling?

@Yogi: There's a small part of Stanhope that is a resurrected Bill Hicks. He eventually get's too raunchy for me to recommend to most people, but I really like him for his stance. I always feel like this clip sums him up the best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsPDT5qHtZ4

Ah yes. Now here is a rape joke that is actually funny. Even Patton Oswalt is starting to get it -- someone who didn't at first, and after this last go round about rape jokes, finally does.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/06/14/go-read-this-loooong-gooood-patton-oswalt-piece-on-joke-theft-rape-jokes-and-heckling

I just thought of a different title for this Sift: "Off-duty Comic Heckles Conspiracy Theorist"

"That's the most work your butt's done all year!"

That's quality heckling lol!

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Fair enough, Sotto. I didn't realize there was a "trend" about comedians self-posting heckling videos for promotional purposes. And if I think about it, if he were doing it right, he would have posted some of the leading material that shows she's deserving of the heaps of abuse.

All that being said, he did ride it very well and was excellent at bringing the audience along on the trip.

There is something electric about being in a live audience and seeing someone heckle. Just that feeling that you're in no man's land, and this could go anywhere. I was lucky enough to see Marc Maron tee off on a drunk American woman in Melbourne - it was wild.

Meanwhile, who cares if he uploaded it himself? Man's gotta eat.

Yeah, but those comments were put there by the comedian himself. The video is on his own channel.

This whole trend of comedians putting up videos of themselves dealing with hecklers seems pretty artificial to me. It's basically just a tactic to have your video go viral: prepare a bunch of heckler-baiting material, wait for someone in the audience to say something in a louder than usual voice, and then unload your material on the "heckler", having a friend film the whole thing as if he's a regular audience member. Audiences at most comedy shows are easily manipulated onto the side of the comedian against a heckler, even if the heckler isn't all that bad. People like watching a comedian take someone else apart.

When someone titles his own video "Funny Asian Comedian OWNS Girl Heckler", he's probably a shamelessly self-promoting douchebag, and his text comments should be taken with a grain of salt. Notice how all the "heckles" have been conveniently edited out (except for "I am mean", which was a pretty stupid thing to say, I'll admit).

Why does anyone bother heckling a stand up comedian anymore? There's so much proof that it doesn't go well for the heckler.

Who got owned? Seemed a very convenient and cheap set of gags designed to deal with a heckler who barely heckled.

Interaction with the audience is a big part of Carr's stand-up, and the basis of the interaction is that Carr is quicker and wittier than the audience members. People who go to his show deliberately heckle him just to see him tear them to shreds. That part of Carr's on-stage persona is very much the sort of wise-cracking "my-knob-is-bigger-than-yours" thing that Fry attributes to American comedy.

I also don't think the self-deprecating "hapless loser" style of comedy is a new thing in America. Self-deprecation has always been a big part of Jewish comedy (Woody Allen is a good example), which has been central to the American comic tradition. Besides that, I already mentioned Lucille Ball, who certainly isn't a recent phenomenon. You can add the Three Stooges to that list. Also Phyllis Diller and (more recently) Chris Farley.

It might be true that self-deprecating humor is more common in British comedy, but it has been a big enough part of American comedy that I find it a little misleading to characterize it as a specifically British trait.