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Boston comedian Bo Burnham owns heckler who jumps on stage

Comedian Bo Burnham showed no fear last night at a show in Atlanta when a heckler climbed onto the stage, and the audience and headliner had a good laugh at his expense.

Burnham, a North Shore native, is currently on his Make Happy Tour 2015, previously appeared in short-lived MTV series Zach Stone is Gonna Be Famous and in promotional material for Judd Apatow’s Funny People. 

“Let’s work together on getting you off the stage and into a stable family, maybe,” he said. “Maybe wringing out that ponytail and greasing you out the door?”

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Burnham proceeded to call the man towards him, all while giving his own bodyguard Larry a healthy dose of reality.

“Larry, this is you f***ing up,” he joked, gesturing at the stage troll. “This is you not doing your job in human form.”

In a final bout of non-sympathy, Bo turned back to Brian the stage crasher. “You’re gentle, you’re lost, I wish you the best, I really kind of want you to kind of kill yourself, but in theory I wish you the best.”

As the heckler left the theater, Burnham continued to bully him out the door and made a crack about the heckler shooting him in the head at a hotel later “like (they did to) John Lennon.”

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“Too late for the John Lennon jokes?” he asked the crowd. “That is one of the weirdest things that has ever happened.”

[h/t UPROXX]

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