13 Tense Moments In Stand-Up Comedy History

Wanda Sykes stand-up

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Wanda Sykes

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Man, that whole Trump thing had everyone at odds.

During a 2016 performance at the TD Garden arena in Boston, tensions mounted on and off stage as Sykes cursed at audience members. 

“I am certain this is not the first time we’ve elected a racist, sexist, homophobic president.” She gave the crowd the middle finger as she walked off stage.

 

Ronny Chieng

Ronny Chieng stand-up

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At a racial harmony concert in Australia, the correspondent for The Daily Show was having a pretty rough set, and a man in the crowd yelled out that he was going to kidnap him and “f*ck him up”.

Chieng did his best to ignore the threats, but after a while he started egging the man on, saying, “Let’s go,” and repeatedly asked the man to kidnap him.

Not wanting to actually learn this lesson, he ended up ditching class, and ended his set early.

 

Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld on the Tonight Show

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Man, we’re glad he tried stand-up a second time.

In Judd Apatow’s 2015 book, Sick in the Head, Seinfeld says that he completely wrote out his act the night before and rehearsed it multiple times before his very first set.

When he actually got on stage, he couldn’t remember a thing. He said, ”I stood there for about thirty seconds saying absolutely nothing. Just standing there, freaking out.”

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