Heroic woman who heckled Louis CK by yelling "get your dick out" has no regrets
Louis CK is determined to stay on brand, continuing a surprise comeback tour in which he forces unwitting audience members to watch him perform. The disgraced comedian, who admitted to masturbating in front of numerous women without their consent, recently surprised another crowd at the Comedy Cellar in New York. But one courageous woman was not having it: During a quiet moment in the set, she took the opportunity to heckle CK. According to her tweet about the incident, the woman and her boyfriend were asked to leave by a staff member. The Cut caught up with this local hero to get the full story, and like any good badass, she has no regrets.
As she tells it, when the Comedy Cellar announced that Louis CK would be performing a surprise set, Klaire Randall thought “it had to be a joke.” Randall says she didn’t know too much about CK, though she was familiar with the allegations against the comedian and had read his non-apology. “I just knew it generally all seemed skeezy, and that it’s wrong for anyone who uses their power to make women feel uncomfortable,” Randall says.
She went on to explain that she was in the front row, facing the stage and near the piano. As CK walked out, Randall says she proceeded to give him the finger, “but I don’t think he noticed.” Unfortunately, she and her boyfriend were seated in an area where it wasn’t easy to leave–a concern that has been raised repeatedly in stories about CK’s surprise sets. Randall explains that her discomfort was compounded by CK’s material and the audience’s reaction to it:
Meanwhile people thought his set was hilarious, laughing and cheering throughout the whole thing. His jokes started out like “my life is hard now, I had a bad year, feel bad for me.” There was nothing like “hey I ruined my own life by masturbating in front of women.”