Adam Kay has this week become the second comedian to interrupt his own set and embarrass an audience member at his sold-out comedy show.
The British comedian, 43, followed in the footsteps of comedian Arj Barker on Monday night when he stopped his show in Sydney due to a disruptive fan who kept using his phone.
He lost his temper at the sold-out Enmore Theater and ended his set by yelling at an audience member after joking that he would also kick out a mother and her baby like Barker, 49, did over the weekend. , he reported. news.com.au.
A fan sitting in the front row incurred the former doctor’s ire when he repeatedly used his phone throughout the set despite being told he wasn’t allowed to.
The author of the best-selling book This is Going to Hurt reached his breaking point at the end of the night after asking the fan to put his phone away several times.
Adam Kay, 43, (pictured) has this week become the second comedian to interrupt his own set and embarrass an audience member at his sold-out comedy show.
Despite the comic’s warnings and a message before the performance that phone use was strictly prohibited, the customer continued using his device.
Kay was concluding his entertaining program with a moving anecdote about the struggles he faced as an NHS doctor in Britain when tensions came to a head.
Excited by the moving message he shared with the audience to check on the mental health of his friends, who may be nurses and doctors, Kay was frustrated when the disruptive customer pulled out his phone once again.
‘Put. His. Damn king. Phone. Far!’ Kay yelled at the fan who was sitting in the front row.
Kay immediately ended her show and said, “You’ve been a wonderful audience… except for one person who really screwed me over.”
“Seriously, don’t go to the theater,” he told the customer.
The British comedian followed in the footsteps of comedian Arj Barker, 49 (pictured), on Monday night when he stopped his show in Sydney due to a disruptive fan who kept using his phone.
Moments earlier, Kay mocked comedian Barker, who made headlines on Saturday night when he booted a breastfeeding mother from his show during the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
When Kay saw a mother with her baby in the crowd, the comedian pointed at them and asked how old her son was.
‘Three months? “Awww,” she said. “If I were Arj Barker, you’d get out of here.”
Melbourne mother-of-three Trish Faranda and her seven-month-old baby Clara were booted from Barker’s show over the weekend, sparking fierce debate over the American comedian’s actions.
Faranda told The Project on Monday that she “had no idea things would be like this” when moments later, little Clara began crying, prompting Faranda to breastfeed her during the live interview.
He lost his temper at the sold-out Enmore Theater and ended his performance yelling at an audience member after joking that he would also kick out a mother and her baby like Barker did over the weekend, news.com reported. .au.
As the little boy’s tears continued, presenter Sarah Harris asked: “Maybe I can go with dad for a second?”
Faranda went on to say that she had already planned to leave the comedy show she had booked a month in advance if Clara started crying, but that she didn’t appreciate the way Barker handled the situation.
“I thought it would be really cool to do something I hadn’t done in a long time and go back to how I was before I was a baby,” she said.
‘I could have said off-mic, “It’s really disturbing me, do you mind?” and he would have happily packed up and left.
“Then he asked the crowd for support, basically telling me I should leave, and they heckled us a little bit as we were leaving.”
Melbourne mother-of-three Trish Faranda and her seven-month-old baby Clara (both pictured) were booted from Barker’s show over the weekend. She appeared on The Project to criticize Barker’s decision, but struggled to keep her baby quiet during the interview.
Barker, who was only 15 minutes into his set when the drama unfolded, said in a statement that the show is strictly PG-15 and is clearly indicated on the ticket site.
“On behalf of the other 700 people who paid to see the concert, I politely told her that the baby couldn’t stay,” she previously explained.
‘She thought I was joking, which made the exchange a little awkward. I felt bad about the whole situation and said it that night more than once.
‘I offered him a refund. “The theater staff shouldn’t have sat a baby in my audience in the first place.”
A Melbourne International Comedy Festival spokesperson said: “Arj is produced independently and at a venue not managed by the Festival, however any interaction between performers and their audience requires sensitivity and respect.”
“In venues managed by our festival, babies in arms are generally allowed, but we ask people to sit in the back with their child so they can leave quickly and easily if the baby makes noise so as not to disturb the artist or other patrons” .