JF: Ooh, that’s a good question. It’s a lot of trial by error. Some nights, if I’ve done something and it’s gone badly, then I’ll think about why. And it’s usually not because of the audience, it’s usually because of how I handled the audience. For example, I do this show called “Friends of Single People.” It’s a dating game. And because it’s a dating game, it’s kind of a nerve-wracking situation.

 

CD: For sure.            

 

JF: So people drink a lot. That show, I think, has people drinking the most of any of my shows. People get wasted. It’s just a mess, it’s really a mess. And this girl came on stage, and it was the end of the night so she had, I don’t know, she probably had ten drinks in her at this point.

 

CD: Oh no.

 

JF: And she was so drunk, and she sat down on the stage and wouldn’t leave, and I didn’t know how to handle it. I didn’t know how to tell her to get off. She wasn’t listening to me, and the audience was getting frustrated with her and then with me because I couldn’t handle it.

 

Afterwards, I was like, “Okay, this is gonna happen to me again.” So internally, I was like, “Oh, this is what I gotta prepare for.”

 

CD: Then you think through what you could have done better?

 

JF: Right. Then, two “Friends of Single People” later, a guy came on as a participant who was so drunk, and he kept not answering questions. And I handled it much better.