
Heckler
Comedian Jamie Kennedy turns the camera on the people who boo him, starting with a live heckler caught mid-show and working outward from there. The film interviews working comics, including Bill Bellamy, Jeff Ross, and Joel McHale, about the psychology of a stranger shouting an insult from the dark, then widens into a bigger target: film and theater critics, whose written pantings Kennedy treats as heckling with a byline. He sits down with critics who trashed his own movies and asks them to defend a bad review to his face, an uncomfortable stunt that doubles as the film's real experiment. Internet comment sections get their own segment, framed as heckling with no stage and no consequences, years before that argument became commonplace. The tone stays closer to a comedy special than a research film, but the interviews are real and often blunt, and the throughline holds: what happens to a performer's nerve when the audience gets a permanent, anonymous voice.