Peter Kay's recent ejection of hecklers from his Better Late Than Never tour has sparked debate about how comedians should handle disruptive audience members. Clips from past tours show Kay engaging with hecklers in a more light-hearted manner, often turning their interruptions into comedic moments. The shift in his approach raises questions about whether hecklers are now getting a tougher response from comedians.
Is Peter Kay losing his edge when it comes to dealing with hecklers? Clips of the Bolton comic's previous dealings with catcalling suggest the now 51-year-old once appeared to enjoy a verbal sparring with those who tried to engage with him during live performances. But the 51-year-old has sparked a fresh debate over how comedians deal with badgering from the audience after he ejected three punters from a show in Manchester at the weekend in a matter of seconds.
Warehouse driver Philip Peters, 54, and his 26-year-old son were thrown out after Mr Peters, a lifelong fan, shouted 'garlic bread' several times from the crowd - while Myar Curran, 25, was kicked out moments later as she shouted 'we love you Peter'. Kay's £27million-grossing Better Late Than Never tour is the comedian's first live tour in over a decade and has been running for almost three years. Saturday's incidents at the AO Arena were the second and third times on the tour the comedian says he had 'no choice' but to throw out attendees. And he has been defended by fans and fellow comics, including Jason Manford. But a compilation of clips lifted from Live and Back on Nights, a DVD looking back at his record-breaking roadshow 2010-2011 The Tour That Didn't Tour Tour...Now On Tour, suggests Kay's handling of hecklers has changed over the years. It opens with a short segment in which Kay says: 'When people heckle, they shout stuff out and you just go off in a different direction. And sometimes that's the magic, that's the spontaneity right there.' Archived clips of Peter Kay's 2010-11 stand-up tour show him tackling hecklers with relish. The comedian appears to have made a marked shift in how he deals with hecklers - with three people ejected from his show in Manchester on Saturday for catcalling. The comedian has lost a huge amount of weight in recent years while embarking on his Better Late Than Never national tour. The selection sees Kay appear to relish the challenge of taking on catcallers from the audience, including a woman who interrupts an anecdote about a trip to Gran Canaria to ask him if it had been raining. He replies: 'You pick your moments don't you? I were in Gran Canaria, it weren't raining.' To laughter, he adds: 'What possessed you? We're all shocked, all of us. Are you on glue?' Another interaction, in Cardiff, sees him trying to speak to one heckler, as another woman whoops from an upper circle seat. Kay, without breaking a sweat, chirps: 'Oh, you see, you've opened a thing now. They all shout... I didn't ask any of you. See when I pointed that way and said 'her', I didn't point that (your) way, did I?' As the woman continues calling from above he fires back: 'Can someone help her? She's doing it again. And again. I'll try to work my material in between those 'whoos'. Like a truck reversing.' And as a man elsewhere in the audience tries to interrupt, he shouts out, eyes wide: 'Not you, d*******! Are you a woman? No, you're a man! Shut your mouth!' He then turns calmly to the original heckler: 'Go on love, sorry, what were you saying?' - before giving the V-sign to the woman hooting from the upper circle. A clearly amused Kay then invites the original heckler to the front of the stage, pointing his microphone at her - only for her to say: 'It's the vodka'. 'Is that all it were?' Kay asks, before she notes that he is wearing makeup. 'Of course I've got make-up on, turn around, look at those lights up there. If I didn't have make-up on I'd look like a ghost,' he chuckles. He adds: 'Are you having that vodka intravenously?' Another heckler in Birmingham got both barrels from Kay after shouting out as the comic took a sip of water. 'He's on his a*** isn't he? Every time there's a gap he's in with a wacky catchphrase. Here's one: f*** off,' Kay fires back, giving him a rude gesture. In London, Kay was startled by a rumbling noise akin to thunder while on stage. As he looks around for the source, a heckler calls out: 'You dropped your wallet!' 'Dropped me wallet? Cheeky b******,' Kay retorts, chuckling, as he adds: 'You've dropped your wallet! That's staying in.' And as a woman from a Liverpool show yelled for a full seven seconds, Kay cooly shook his head to laughter as he said: 'I have not got a f****** clue.' 'I don't know whether it were a girl or a mini rocket', he quips.Clips from Kay's behind the scenes DVD, Live and Back on Nights, show him tackling hecklers with a grin on his face. One hilarious moment in Cardiff saw him bring an audience member down to the front so she could speak into the microphone. Kay appeared to enjoy interactions with the audience earlier in his career (pictured in his hometown of Bolton in 2000). He rose to fame throughout the 2000s, appearing in Channel 4 sitcom Phoenix Nights and spin-off Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere alongside Paddy McGuinness (pictured).
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