Canadian comic Steph Tolev doesn't like being interrupted

It’s a clip of a heckler interaction that’s been described as ‘porn for comedians’.

When a guy in the audience told Canadian comic Steph Tolev to ‘move on’ with her act while she was chatting with another punter, he wasn’t prepared to become the subject of her attention.

And so fearful was he of an exchange with the stand-up  that he fled to the toilet rather that face a putdown.

What’s more, he stayed there for the next three comedians’s sets. But that wasn’t enough to escape her wrath…

What happens when a heckler can’t handle the heat #moveon pic.twitter.com/B1XzceApv8

— Step Toilet (@StephTolev) October 9, 2023

Fellow comic Brad Williams came up with the ‘porn for comedians’ line, while Patrick Monahan (the New York comic of that name, no the Brit) called it: ‘The vanishingly rare heckler video that really delivers.’

The incident when Tolev was speaking to a man in the audience who was there with an employee.

It prompted the heckler to interject: ‘He sponsored the show. Move on.’ His tone suggested this had come up earlier in the show,

When asked for the backstory to the clip, Tolev said: ‘This was legit the whole thing!! I asked the ppl who sponsored the show if they hang out a lot outside work (didn’t know they sponsored it I was in the other room doing a set) and he snapped!!!’

Published: 12 Oct 2023