heckler

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The premise of the joke was that the heckler was a prostitute.

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  1. One who heckles or uses a heckle.
  2. One who severely questions and cross-questions another; specifically, one who severely questions a candidate for the purpose of finding some weak point in his political creed or professions, or of bringing out his actual opinions or position. [Great Britain.] The man who asks questions and insists on their being answered is a familiar presence at all party meetings [in England]. One of England's many debts to Scotland is the loan of the expressive word used to describe him. He is known as the heckler. The speaker is not allowed to disregard him. Sidney Brooks, in Harper's Mag., Aug., 1900, p. 338.

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  • The premise of the joke was that the heckler was a prostitute. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • It would have worked just a well if the heckler was a woman. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Choire Sicha suggested saying Griffin "Repeated a (somewhat trite but shocking-for-TV) joke about how she would not herself interrupt the heckler's own job, with the implied punchline being that the heckler was employed in the capacity of performing sex for money." —  Gawker
  • - Kathy Griffin may have shouted at a heckler, on CNN, "I don't go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth," but it's just a "vulgarity" in the Times. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • As you've probably read, after Barbra Streisand's mocking duet with a George Bush impersonator drew one very persistent heckler -- at her Madison Square Garden concert last night, the —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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