I edited my above post, in case you missed it....but anyway, yeah it was pretty funny at a few points.
I went to a like "open-mike" comedy night once inadvertently, and just because it's shitty Rhode Island or whatever, no one was laughing at all at some of these people. (as far as I could tell, all of them were trying to make a career of it, and trying out jokes) Some of the comics were really getting visibly upset about it, and having a hard time. The truth was, though, most of them were funny. It's just that on the first few jokes, you're just kind of listening, maybe smiling, at least on the inside. On the first pretty funny joke, you kind of chuckle a bit and then see what they're gonna say next. I could hear people around me chuckling as well..But the comics would get all flustered, and then it's a bit hard to get into that jovial mood again, as an audience member. One guy actually stopped his show and basically told us to laugh haha. Yeah that's gonna work.
I think they were getting heckled too by people up front, but being in the back I could only hear the guy with the mike, so if they addressed the heckler with anything but a horrible and funny insult, that was annoying.
But the guys who got people rolling were the ones who just kept on trucking through their act, without waiting to see what people thought of their jokes. (or maybe the ones who brought the most friends?)
But honestly, it was at a sports bar during March madness (last year). I was there hoping to watch the game. I wonder if other people were trying to do the same.