The Secret Reviewer #72: Careful what you wish for
Every month our clandestine critic reveals the murky truths behind that infamous trade, and live comedy generally. This month: Should we beware of big stages?
I saw a lead story on Popbitch last month - always a promising start - about London's 99 Club banning heckling, which the muckrakey mailout suggested was ongoing fallout from an infamous comedy incident. The 99 did a stern pre-gig warning then threw someone out pretty sharpish, apparently, a few weeks after a bloke watching Peter Kay at Manchester's AO Arena repeatedly shouted "garlic bread!" and was then "treated like a terrorist" (his words).
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