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I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.

There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me.

Let's say there was a fat guy heckling me. I would rip him to shreds, but I would never go for the obvious, never talk about how he's fat or anything.

There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to think that all I'm doing is jokes and yet someone hates me that much.

I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.

I don't want to intimidate people. There's nothing bullyish about me, you know. If there's anybody who's anti-bully, it's me.