Jake weisman heckler videos

In this edition of Run the Light, we interview comic Jake Weisman.

Ari: inom recently discovered you from the Huffington Post having your film with the heckler spilling a bag of cocaine on scen. I then found your podcast, other podcast, sketches… what would you säga most of your följare know you from?
Jake: I wouldn’t say inom have a following AT ALL but if anyone is aware of me I guess it’s from doing stand-up shows around LA and possibly from my sketch group. The Morning After…Podcast just ended, but maybe some people are aware of my human existence from that. I suppose Twitter might count for something too, but inom don’t know how to gauge that.

Ari: What went through your head when you first realized cocaine fell onto the stage?
Jake: “Jackpot.” inom had no idea what I was doing mounting him, and so when the cocaine fell out, I felt such a relief. inom knew the situation had gone from weird to somewhat insane and it was exciting because inom felt inom finally had full leverage in t

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Corporate begins its third and final season on Comedy Central this week, and if the show has slid somewhat under the radar, that’s arguably because it doesn’t look like anything else on TV. Of the most popular comedies of the past 10-15 years, most carry the obvious whiff of their spiritual forebears.

30 Rock had the stars of SNL, Parks and Rec had The Office, The Office had the British Office, Workaholics had It’s Always Sunny, and so forth. Corporate has two relatively unknown comedians (Jake Weisman and Matt Ingbretson) starring alongside a cast of other fresh faces and a stunt-cast Lance Reddick (Cedric Daniels from The Wire) in a deliberately drab set for meticulously un-hijinxy storylines. It’s hard to imagine the pitch deck. That it doesn’t obviously scream “watch me” is both Corporate‘s artistic strength and what would seem to make it a tough sell.

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Here’s a fun little video that’s been making the rounds among my stand-up comedian friends: comedian Jake Weisman, performing at the Hell Yes Fest in New Orleans over the weekend, finds himself dealing with your typical drunk jackass who thinks he’s helping entertain the audience by interjecting dumb comments in the middle of Weisman’s set ups (you’d be amazed at how common it is for drunk people to talk to the the guy on stage as if it’s a private conversation between just them two – I mentioned this phenomenon in my Dave Chappelle story a while back). It starts about 4:40 into the video, and rather than trying to power through his bits over the top of Drunk Jackass, Weisman wisely sits down and prods the guy who wants all the attention onto the stage.

Shockingly, the drunk guy is obnoxious and not funny, and is very bad at taking direction. Weisman starts literally, physically wrestling with Drunk J, and at that point, even the heckler-hu