Hecklers Happy Hour

Thursday, December 19, 2024

"Inaugural HHH: You Can Be Freaky, You Can Be Sassy"

Claire Parlette christened the very first Hecklers Happy Hour by laying down the house rules — be kind, be freaky, and if we have to tell you to stop twice, you're out. Then she got into her dating life and some audience-sourced celebrity lookalike comparisons. Katie Mark brought barista-to-drama-teacher energy and a family nickname that stuck with the crowd all night. Ben O'Connell tried to talk geopolitics in a room full of theater kids — it went how you'd think. Abbigale Blaze introduced herself as "wildly problematic" and proved it. Yarnmaze hijacked her own show when an audience member spotted her shirt and yelled "Voyager!" — the whole room was whistling theme songs and doing "the wormhole" on command. Brian Miklas ran a death pool with the audience and it went off the rails. Kayley Horton closed by roasting every man in the room.

Highlight:Ben O'Connell tried to riff on the Ukraine war and the audience hit back with Fiddler on the Roof takes, Star Wars corrections, and a guy who got arrested at Emporium for foosball — and then got a 20-second countdown to explain himself.

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