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heckler
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
agent noun from heckle (v.); mid-15c., from late 13c., as a surname (Will. le Hekelere). Modern sense of "one from the audience who taunts a public speaker" is from 1885. Fem. form hekelstere is attested from c.1500.
Wiktionary
n. agent noun of heckle; one who heckles; somebody who insults, makes fun of, or teases.
WordNet
n. someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections [syn: badgerer]
Wikipedia
A heckler is a person who harasses and tries to disconcert others with questions, challenges, or gibes. Hecklers are often known to shout disparaging comments at a performance or event, or to interrupt set-piece speeches, with the intent of disturbing performers and/or participants.
The Heckler is a fictional character, a superhero parody published by DC Comics'. He first appeared in The Heckler #1 (cover-dated September 1992), an ongoing series that lasted six issues, ending with The Heckler #6 (cover-dated February 1993).
A heckler is a person who shouts an uninvited comment at a performance or event.
Heckler or The Heckler may also refer to:
- Heckler (comics), a fictional character
- Heckler (surname)
- Heckler & Koch, a German weapons manufacturing company
- The Georgetown Heckler, an undergraduate humor magazine at Georgetown University
- The Heckler (newspaper), a satirical sports newspaper
- "Hecklers", a programme on BBC Radio 4
- Heckler (film), a documentary starring Jamie Kennedy, which takes swipes at not only hecklers who pester comedians, but also at film critics
- The Heckler (1940 film), a 1940 comedy film
- The Heckler (2015 film), a 2015 comedy film
Heckler is a 2007 documentary film about hecklers.
The film begins with an examination of the means, methods, and motives of hecklers and their effect on live performances, particularly stand up comedy. A common observation by professional comics is that hecklers can be categorized in two groups: those who want to participate and sincerely believe they're helping the comedian, and those who intend to disrupt the comedian. Several male comedians suggest that female hecklers are often motivated by a desire to flirt with the performer.
Subsequently, the film segues into a longer examination of film and music critics, including their effect on performers. The documentary suggests that most critics are motivated by frustrated artistic ambitions, and are no better than hecklers given that internet criticism has emboldened critics to engage in vicious personal attacks rather than critiques of artists' work.
The film is hosted by actor/comedian Jamie Kennedy, who was inspired to create the movie after feeling wounded by the overwhelmingly negative reviews for his movie Son of the Mask (2005), some of which attacked Kennedy personally rather than reviewing the film. Interviewees include comedians Louie Anderson, Kathy Griffin, Bobby Slayton, Patton Oswalt, Joe Rogan, Arsenio Hall, Carrot Top, Maria Bamford and George Wallace; medical doctor Drew Pinsky; journalist Christopher Hitchens; political commentator Dennis Prager; directors Peter Guber, Joel Schumacher, George Lucas and Rob Zombie; and singer Jewel Kilcher.
Heckler also includes footage of much-derided filmmaker Uwe Boll's boxing matches with several of his most vocal critics.
Heckler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- David Heckler (born 1947), American politician
- Edmund Heckler (1906–1960), German weapons manufacturer and businessman
- Margaret Heckler (born 1931), American politician
- Mark A. Heckler, American academic administrator
Usage examples of "heckler".
When the Roadrunner gets a safe dropped on his head or Don Rickles cuts some heckler into little bitty pieces they laugh their asses off too.
Instead of being a model of exemplary behavior to your juniors in this assemblage and to those outside in the Forum, you conduct yourself like the worst demagogue who ever prated from the rostra, like the most foul-mouthed heckler who ever stood at the back of any Forum crowd!
Henderson, Waldo Cummings and Gibby Blake took the heckler mission to Japan.
Small, Doctor Inchball, Hetch Heckler, Biddy Stuckmeyer and Deborah Jib.
As specifically configured for UpLink International, the sixty TRAP T-2s situated around the Cosmodrome consisted of a mix of tripod-mounted VVRS M16 assault rifles and Heckler Koch MSG semiautomatic shotguns linked via microwave video, fiber-optic umbilical cable, and precision target-acquisition-and-firing software to man-portable control stations with handheld viewfinders and triggering units.
In comedy clubs, she frequently dealt with hecklers, cracked their thick skulls, wrung their geek necks, stomped their malicious hearts till they cried for mama metaphorically speaking, of course using a dazzle of words as effective as the fists of Muhammad Ali in his prime.
Then he raised his arm, and at the end of the arm one finger pointed out of his knotted fist, and in that moment he was like Babe Ruth, old and almost washed up, pointing to the spot where he was going to hit the home run, pointing for all the hecklers and badmouths in Wrigley Field, shutting them up once and for all.
Next to each man, a Protect helmet, the sort canoeists wear, rested on top of a black nylon harness, holding magazines for the 10mm version of the Heckler & Koch MP5.
He'd wanted, I suppose, to go through the whole thing with me, enjoying the role of tutor, bringing his sweet smile to bear upon the business of trading a consignment of Heckler and Koch HK91s for a dozen bags of cocaine on the dockside in Istanbul, or of buying Semtex by the square yard without blowing up the freighter.
He pulled a Heckler and Koch box magazine out of his thigh pocket.
The American M-16 was primitive, but satisfactory, although he would have preferred a weapon of German design, even one of similar vintage as these five centuries old museum pieces, perhaps the Heckler & Koch G-3.
Inside the chamois will be a pair of new, nicely customized machine pistols, Heckler &.
The ninjas were carrying flash grenades and Heckler & Koch assault weapons.
Sampson and I drove out into the country, then back to town again, passing the Rocky Mount--Wilson Airport and Nash General Hospital, as well as the offices of Heckler & Koch, where Starkey, Harris, and Griffin worked as the sales team for several military bases, including Fort Bragg.
Sampson and I drove out into the country, then back to town again, passing the Rocky Mount-Wilson Airport and Nash General Hospital, as well as Heckler and Koch where Starkey, Harris and Griffin worked as the sales team for several military bases, including Fort Bragg.