Just one of those nights...

Last night I did my first stand-up gig in a while and it was one of those nights.

Free entry is never a good start as audiences often don't value what they haven't paid for and there was a 50-50 split of younger punters who seemed to be there for the comedy and four older drunks who didn't quite know where they were in the first place.

As I was on towards the end of the night I watched act after act attempt to engage the drunks in conversation in the vain hope that they'd focus on the stage or at least shut up so that everyone else could listen. However, any attention given to them was fuel on the flames and they just got louder and more disruptive until everyone just stopped caring; comics, compere, punters and drunks alike. By the time I got to stage they were just gleefully yelling out random nonsense. I opened by mentioning that I'm Australian and was greeted with the opening verse of Rolf Harris' Two Little Boys.

Perhaps the strangest heckle I've ever had. Alas, not sung as well as this.