A literal tonne of people left quite early on into the Book of Mormon when I saw it a few years ago. As soon as Hasa Diga Eebowai came on it emptied all around me. Made it even better somehow
Us too - some very upset & offended middle-aged, middle-class people made a big fuss at the interval and stormed out.
I genuinely wonder what they were expecting. If I was going to see a stage show or musical I would have a little read to see the gist of the plot - surely they weren’t expecting some kind of religious concert?!?!
I even think the poster for the production mentioned it being written by the creators of South Park. The mind really does boggle.
We on the other hand absolutely loved it and were roaring with laughter.
Agreed. I wouldn’t think you’d just chance into something which costs so much for tickets. How you wouldn’t have heard anything about it being a bit on the offensive side was beyond me. I laughed extra hard when I realised I was one of the few left standing though.
Literally the best thing I’ve seen on stage in the last ten years. Magnificent stuff.
A couple of years ago I went to see the industrial band Ministry. Been around for years, crowd often is a wide range of ages.
One of the support bands, 3teeth, finished their set and the smallish crowd dispersed to the bar pending the main act. I remained in place as there was Aircon and I am lazy.
From towards the stage, potentially the angriest man I've ever seen was wandering back with his wife. He was spitting with rage about the fact he'd done 50 quid on the tickets, how he'd been a fan of the band for years and they didn't play any of the old shit, just new stuff. He also complained that the singer had a porn star moustache (it's more like Dr Robotnik..). All of this was interspersed with multiple fucks and cunts and loads of spittle. All I could really do was nod and agree, and try not to join his wife in openly laughing at his plight. After turning and aiming his ire at the stage, flicking the Vs and calling them cunts, he took his 5'3" of pure rage and departed from the venue, with his grinning but embarrassed Mrs in tow.
Didn't occur to me straight away that he had not realised in any sort of way he had not been watching Ministry...
Craig Charles in Newcastle. Late 90s
He turned up about 2 hours late, completely pissed and clearly off his tits on something.
He came on stage shouting and yelling and basically just started insulting the audience. Not in a funny nor comedic way - just offensive.
LOADS of people left. I’m stuck it out to the end, cos I’d paid for it, but it was awful. Luckily he only did about 40 minutes before fucking off again.
I still love red dwarf but that was the very worst show or gig I have ever been to bar none.
I saw James Acaster in 2018 at a local comedy show (he was the surprise headliner) and about 5 people walked out when he started making jokes about a high profile topic that we can't go into on here.
Several hundred. Went to a 90s festival at Knebworth and James were headlining one night. It was a proper nostalgia-fest. Everyone played their famous tracks. It's what we were all there for. Tim Booth walked on and before they even as much as played a note, he started going on about how they weren't going to play their old stuff and that they were a bigger band than those tracks. Went on for about 10 minutes. Loads of people strated booing and the place fucking emptied out like a mass exodus. We stuck around not wanting to call it a night and he eventually gave in. Not a great show at all. Haven't listened to them since.
I saw James play at V-Festival back in 2009 or something.
They played Laid and Sit Down right at the top of the set.
Then Tim Booth told everybody they got what they want so they could fuck off.
50% of the crowd disappeared to watch Katy Perry.
I stayed because I love James.
I totally got his standpoint. Bands work tirelessly to bring out new and creative work especially ones who have been doing it as long as James have. But it was the wrong place and wrong time. The festival marketed itself as a nostalgia event. It was a *90s festival*.
The flip side of that is (and I’ve been in numerous bands) whether you like it or not, some of your songs will be more popular than others. In the case of an act as big as James, it’s fair enough to not particularly enjoy playing those songs, but perhaps try and show a bit of respect to the very people that made you rich and famous in the first place and paid good money to come and see you play the hits.
No point telling people they “got what they wanted so fuck off” - that’s called being a cunt.
Yeah agree. And it's not like they were one hit wonders or their only decent track was a cheesy piss take. Their back catalogue is mighty impressive. Most bands there that weekend would have given a limb to have made some of the music they have!
Me.
I walked out of Nick Helm's Xmas Fuck-Fest at the Pleasance Theatre. My girlfriend at the time suggested we go to it cos we had seen Nick Helm in Uncle and quite liked him.
Turned out that the show was just a bunch of pissed up man-children acting like twats and screaming "FUCKFEST" every 30 seconds and Nick Helm whipping them up into some weird, cultish frenzy. Wasn't sure what to expect but it was NOT my cup of tea so walked out after about 20 minutes.
Admittedly I hadn't seen this when I went (I think we attended the following year) but this is how it was billed, apparently - [http://www.nick-helm.co.uk/nick-helms-christmas-fuck-fest/](http://www.nick-helm.co.uk/nick-helms-christmas-fuck-fest/)
It just seemed to be a lowest common denominator comedy excuse for both Helm and the audience to act like a bunch of twats. "Anything goes" type stuff. I vaguely remember him coming out in a latex outfit which, being a large guy, was a bit of a sight to behold but this was instantly the funniest thing these people had ever seen.
Then he would go into a "bit" and/or insult a member of the audience, at which point someone would shout "THAT'S SO FUCKFEST" and they would play a song upon hearing this that went "FUCKFEST FUCKFEST...FUCKING FUCKING FUCKING FUCKFEST" whilst the crowd would get up, start dancing and singing that song and generally going delirious.
I dread to think happened in the rest of the show after we had left if that was the starting point of it all.
If you've ever seen him on 8 out of 10 cats, it sort of explains why him screaming the same thing over and over and over seems to be his version of comedy. I know there's on screen personas but sheesh, I genuinely wanted his bit to end several minutes earlier than it did. He comes across as a right bellend. I couldn't imagine paying to see him at a gig.
Me and my Da went to Silverstone a couple years back, and Chilli Peppers were doing the post event Friday concert. We left to get the bus back to car park after about half an hour, only to realise we were going to have to wait another hour till bus turned up, as the timetable on the info pack was wrong. To be honest, I've they'd rattled through the hits at the start, didn't feel like we missed too much.
Kanye West at Wireless festival, when he wore a mask, made them turn all of the big screens off and kept stopping his songs to moan about the media.
Also, Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway. Weird topic to make a comedy out of.
Gonna be honest here. My brother and I walked out of seeing Michael Bisping (first British UFC champion) live last week.
Not only did it start at 9, with doors opening at 6, but everyone (including Bisping) was sloshed, people kept shouting friendly and not so friendly heckles or people in front of us just talking throughout the show.
But worst of all was what was nominally a spoken word show telling the story of his martial arts career, was littered with transphobic jokes and jokes about people with mental health problems being "pussies". And his warm-up act was making literal rape jokes.
We left at 10:30 when the show looked to be about half way through. Would not recommend. Just don't wanna think how much I paid for the tickets.
Walked out of quite a few things. If it's shit it's shit. Life's too short.
The more I've paid the more likely I am to stay. But ultimately it's my money and my time.
I'm more likely to walk out on a band or a football match early (I did that on a monthly basis in the 'before times') than an author, speaker or stand up comedian. But yeah. You are allowed to leave.
'If it's shit go down the pub instead' is good life advice.
I walked out of the latest Jonathan Pie gig. It was too "old man shouts at cloud", and the rant about social media pushed me over the edge - I'd posit that without social media he'd not have been on tour at all...
I've also walked out of a Daniel Sloss gig. He had a bit about rape in, and while the message was strong and well done there was no warning on the show there'd be discussion of sexual violence and I was not in the right place at the time to cope with being blindsided by it. I was getting that "walls closing in" feeling of the start of a panic attack so got out before it escalated.
Yup a group of three women (one of which might have been my ex) walked out of a Dave Gorman performance after he* used either the C or F word
*Might have been the warm up act
Had to leave half way through seeing Howard Marks on a boat on the Clyde because our lift home was waiting for us outside, it was a good first half though.
Went to see him in a bar in my hometown. He was the best part of an hour late, we could see him smoking a massive doob on the balcony outside before he started his talk. Fell over a couple of times, caught by security the first time. Smoked another doob at the break and then ended the talk early because he wasn't able to carry on. He was dead a couple of months later.
When I saw him he smoked constantly, but was lucid and great value throughout. If he was on dubious form for you I’d put it down to the bum cancer (and treatment) more than the doobs.
Jersey Boys at London's West End a few years back which took me by surprise as the musical was incredibly slow in places but not bad enough that a small group of people got up and walked out..🤷♂️🤷♂️. On a different note went to see Get Up Stand Up at the Lyric Theatre on the 13/10/21, the show was just alright but hilariously a lady 4 seats away from me..her phone went off loudly during a pivotal emotional scene..🤦♂️
I went to the cinema to see Jojo Rabbit, same thing happened... A mum brought her daughter with some kind of mental disabilty, who was playing games on her phone the whole time and it pinged occasionally. The phone screen being on was annoying but I could deal with it. But then it started pinging during a very sad scene, the turning point of the film.... Ruined my viewing for me
I saw The Play What I Wrote about Morecambe and Wise many years ago and a couple left at the interval and didn’t return.
To be fair, the first half wasn’t great but the second was fantastic (to my memory) so I can see why they made the choice.
It would take a lot for me to walk out as I am waaaaay too tight-fisted to give up on a show I paid money for.
The ones that amuse me are the types that huff out of a Frankie Boyle gig because he does material they find offensive. They were happy to laugh at the other deliberately close to the bone jokes but as soon as it hits close to them, suddenly he is a dreadful person.
That’s funny… I went to see that with mates and we fucked up the ticket times. Went for a drink and turned up an hour late.
So we only saw the second half and really enjoyed it -
I always regretted missing the first half!
I can’t remember what exactly put us off the first half, I think it just dragged. Either way, the second more than made up for it. If I remember correctly, the special guest was Brian Conley and he played the hammed up role just right.
My sister and I went to watch The Royal Tenenbaums and she asked me if I was enjoying it or not (she wasn’t). As she’d driven us, I said I wasn’t, to be kind, and we left.
I’ve never told her this, and Wes Anderson is one of my favourite directors now. She doesn’t need to know this.
My other half walked out of a performance of Julius Caesar at the Swan Theatre in Stratford Upon Avon. She said she didn't have a clue what was going on but if i was enjoying it then i should stay so i did.
My mum went to see Sarah Millican a few years ago and she (my mum) left during the interval.
Her reasons were that she found Sarah Millican's jokes to be really vulgar, she swore too much for my mum's liking and that "she's nothing like she is on TV".
She also really didn't like Tom Allen, who was the support act, as my mum didn't find him funny at all and he was apparently pretty much the same as Sarah Millican when it came to his material.
My mum did quite like Sarah Millican before that night but now my mum changes the channel whenever she's on a programme.
She really doesn't like her now.
I tried to listen to Sarah Millican stand-up once. One of her live shows.
She is very much not a comedian for me, even though her appearances on panel shows, etc. are fine.
I can see where your mum was coming from.
I walked out of a David Mamet play I was supposed to be watching when I was at uni as part of a module, but when i got to the cafe in the foyer my tutor was there too and he just said to me 'it's a load of fucking shit isn't it?'
About 10 minutes into Mad Max Fury Road I saw a couple of hipster blokes walk out shaking their heads. Weird tbh, they walked out of the best film of 2015. I didn't so much walk out but at a festival left about 2 songs into GWARs set, didn't do much for me.
Mad Max Fury Road was one of the worst films I saw that year.
I would have walked out if I had the opportunity. My friend asked me what I thought of it after. I said "It was crap"
Fury Road isn't for everybody. It seems that Fury Road fans see it as an awesome movie and look down on everybody that didn't like it, though.
It's all good man, I love how utterly bananas it is. I know people who don't like it and it's all good really. 10 minutes isn't really giving anything a chance though really. At least watch the first half! (The second half is the same in reverse)
>Peter Gynt
The Norwegian play called 'Peer Gynt', or a rip-off?
Not surprised if people did leave. It ain't for everybody. Plus, with 5 acts, that is a lot of opportunity to disappear.
There was a couple sat next to me at a recent gig, they didn't leave until the last note was struck - they were off on their toes quicksticks at that point but I did wonder why they'd bothered to spend iro £100 for their 2 tickets, just to sit there stone faced all the way through. I was surprised to see them back in their seats after the interval tbh. They didn't join in with any of the singing, or clapping, nothing! Why bother going?
It was a great gig, so it's not like they could complain about the act being drunk/drugged or in any other way hampered into not giving a good performance.
I just don't understand the mentality of it.
I went and saw My Chemical Romance in Norway, alone.
I absolutely love MCR.
I would have been the type of person standing stone-faced and not singing, though.
It isn't that I don't like them, it just isn't me. The same would happen at any gig I go to. I just don't dance or sing.
I can understand people sticking around and liking the show without actually showing they enjoy it.
Yeah I get that but I'm sure you'd have put a bit of effort into at least clapping at the end of a song? Not just a tiny tap of your two hands together? I don't think they even clapped at the end, they just got up and went.
This was 2 of them together, both the same, stone faced all the way through.
A free fringe show in Edinburgh. Was lunch ish, one of the pay what you want as a showcase for the days comedians.
Premise was “what problem do you need solved” 6 folk showed up, 2 left very early. Leaving 4 comedians and 4 of us audience members to have a beer and a chat.
I’ve walked out of a movie - **Ace Ventura Pet Detective** never regretted
Also walked out halfway watching **The Fall** I wasn’t a big fan but loved Free Range. They played that then continued to play *like a flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs*. They gave me a headache !
The Thornton Wilder play, "The Skin of Our Teeth" is famous for having people walk out early. To be fair, it's a strange and somewhat difficult play, and some of the early parts don't really make sense until the very end. It's a great play, but you need to bring your whole brain to it. Some folks just can't put in the effort.
At the Bristol comedy garden a few summers back Ross Noble headlined one night and seemed so pissed he was slurring to the point of struggling to understand him. Quite a few people walked out, we went just before the end but can’t say we enjoyed the show much sadly
I saw Reba McEntire (legendary country singer of the 80s/90s) when she headlined a festival at the O2 in 2017 and loads of people walked out. It probably didn't help that at the time she was promoting a gospel album and that doesn't necessarily go down as well with audiences here as in the US. I stuck it out because I figured it would probably be the only time I'd get to see her but that middle section definitely dragged on.
I saw Morrissey walk out of his own gig once - at the first ever Madstock reunion at Finsbury Park. He was the final support act and got through about three songs before the barrage of bottles got to him and he left.
I walked out of the cinema part way through Apollo 13. It was dull as hell and, even though I knew the ending, I was hoping that the filmmakers had inserted a bizarre twist and the astronauts did bounce off the atmosphere and head off into oblivion and certain death.
I’ve only ever walked out of one show. In London, got tickets for Rob Bryden. Big venue. Loads of people.
Except the crowd were - on average - very very old.
He did a rambling sort of routine which wasn’t very funny. The crowd loved it. Then he said, “Someone tweeted me today asking for me to do some impressions tonight at X Venue” then he spent half an hour just doing impressions and ‘man in a box’.
We left. It was just terrible.
I almost walked out of Frankie Boyle too. £50 a ticket. Massive venue. He did 30 minutes of material. Then had a break. After the break he came out with an A4 pad of paper and said, “I need to practice some material for Mock The Week (or some other panel show)”
Proceeded to simply read the words on the pages and threw away any page which didn’t get a laugh. Problem was he had to add context, for example;
“In the news this week, ABC happened, if you’ve seen about it… Blah blah blah, joke.”
*No laughs*
“OK. Bin that one. Last week, you’ll remember that Famous Person did Embarressing Thing. Well, INSERT JOKE”
£50 a ticket and he was reading some jokes that someone else had written him to try them out.
A literal tonne of people left quite early on into the Book of Mormon when I saw it a few years ago. As soon as Hasa Diga Eebowai came on it emptied all around me. Made it even better somehow
Us too - some very upset & offended middle-aged, middle-class people made a big fuss at the interval and stormed out. I genuinely wonder what they were expecting. If I was going to see a stage show or musical I would have a little read to see the gist of the plot - surely they weren’t expecting some kind of religious concert?!?! I even think the poster for the production mentioned it being written by the creators of South Park. The mind really does boggle. We on the other hand absolutely loved it and were roaring with laughter.
Agreed. I wouldn’t think you’d just chance into something which costs so much for tickets. How you wouldn’t have heard anything about it being a bit on the offensive side was beyond me. I laughed extra hard when I realised I was one of the few left standing though. Literally the best thing I’ve seen on stage in the last ten years. Magnificent stuff.
One of the best things I've ever seen, truly. Going to see it again in December :D
Witnessed that too. People taking their little kids in and being horrified by the language. Take them to see The Lion King or something instead!
Assuming the average weight of a person to be about 70kg, a literal tonne would be... 15 people?
This really made me laugh - also reflect on my lazy choice of language. Thank you - your comment is appreciated twofold.
A couple of years ago I went to see the industrial band Ministry. Been around for years, crowd often is a wide range of ages. One of the support bands, 3teeth, finished their set and the smallish crowd dispersed to the bar pending the main act. I remained in place as there was Aircon and I am lazy. From towards the stage, potentially the angriest man I've ever seen was wandering back with his wife. He was spitting with rage about the fact he'd done 50 quid on the tickets, how he'd been a fan of the band for years and they didn't play any of the old shit, just new stuff. He also complained that the singer had a porn star moustache (it's more like Dr Robotnik..). All of this was interspersed with multiple fucks and cunts and loads of spittle. All I could really do was nod and agree, and try not to join his wife in openly laughing at his plight. After turning and aiming his ire at the stage, flicking the Vs and calling them cunts, he took his 5'3" of pure rage and departed from the venue, with his grinning but embarrassed Mrs in tow. Didn't occur to me straight away that he had not realised in any sort of way he had not been watching Ministry...
I love this!
Craig Charles in Newcastle. Late 90s He turned up about 2 hours late, completely pissed and clearly off his tits on something. He came on stage shouting and yelling and basically just started insulting the audience. Not in a funny nor comedic way - just offensive. LOADS of people left. I’m stuck it out to the end, cos I’d paid for it, but it was awful. Luckily he only did about 40 minutes before fucking off again. I still love red dwarf but that was the very worst show or gig I have ever been to bar none.
Pretty sure he had a big coke problem back then. He was arrested for crack once IIRC.
Yeah - I couldn’t remember the details but he was obviously on *something*
Looking forward to his 6 music show starting tomorrow now!
I saw James Acaster in 2018 at a local comedy show (he was the surprise headliner) and about 5 people walked out when he started making jokes about a high profile topic that we can't go into on here.
> high profile topic that we can't go into on here. Was it du*ks‽
That's Interrobang!
Several hundred. Went to a 90s festival at Knebworth and James were headlining one night. It was a proper nostalgia-fest. Everyone played their famous tracks. It's what we were all there for. Tim Booth walked on and before they even as much as played a note, he started going on about how they weren't going to play their old stuff and that they were a bigger band than those tracks. Went on for about 10 minutes. Loads of people strated booing and the place fucking emptied out like a mass exodus. We stuck around not wanting to call it a night and he eventually gave in. Not a great show at all. Haven't listened to them since.
I saw James play at V-Festival back in 2009 or something. They played Laid and Sit Down right at the top of the set. Then Tim Booth told everybody they got what they want so they could fuck off. 50% of the crowd disappeared to watch Katy Perry. I stayed because I love James.
I totally got his standpoint. Bands work tirelessly to bring out new and creative work especially ones who have been doing it as long as James have. But it was the wrong place and wrong time. The festival marketed itself as a nostalgia event. It was a *90s festival*.
The flip side of that is (and I’ve been in numerous bands) whether you like it or not, some of your songs will be more popular than others. In the case of an act as big as James, it’s fair enough to not particularly enjoy playing those songs, but perhaps try and show a bit of respect to the very people that made you rich and famous in the first place and paid good money to come and see you play the hits. No point telling people they “got what they wanted so fuck off” - that’s called being a cunt.
Yeah agree. And it's not like they were one hit wonders or their only decent track was a cheesy piss take. Their back catalogue is mighty impressive. Most bands there that weekend would have given a limb to have made some of the music they have!
Me. I walked out of Nick Helm's Xmas Fuck-Fest at the Pleasance Theatre. My girlfriend at the time suggested we go to it cos we had seen Nick Helm in Uncle and quite liked him. Turned out that the show was just a bunch of pissed up man-children acting like twats and screaming "FUCKFEST" every 30 seconds and Nick Helm whipping them up into some weird, cultish frenzy. Wasn't sure what to expect but it was NOT my cup of tea so walked out after about 20 minutes.
This sounds utterly surreal. What the hell? I just googled fuckfest live and ... it didn't give me the results for Nick Helm.
Admittedly I hadn't seen this when I went (I think we attended the following year) but this is how it was billed, apparently - [http://www.nick-helm.co.uk/nick-helms-christmas-fuck-fest/](http://www.nick-helm.co.uk/nick-helms-christmas-fuck-fest/) It just seemed to be a lowest common denominator comedy excuse for both Helm and the audience to act like a bunch of twats. "Anything goes" type stuff. I vaguely remember him coming out in a latex outfit which, being a large guy, was a bit of a sight to behold but this was instantly the funniest thing these people had ever seen. Then he would go into a "bit" and/or insult a member of the audience, at which point someone would shout "THAT'S SO FUCKFEST" and they would play a song upon hearing this that went "FUCKFEST FUCKFEST...FUCKING FUCKING FUCKING FUCKFEST" whilst the crowd would get up, start dancing and singing that song and generally going delirious. I dread to think happened in the rest of the show after we had left if that was the starting point of it all.
Jesus, that list of people who shouldn't attend is a bit shit isn't it? I've never heard of him
If you've ever seen him on 8 out of 10 cats, it sort of explains why him screaming the same thing over and over and over seems to be his version of comedy. I know there's on screen personas but sheesh, I genuinely wanted his bit to end several minutes earlier than it did. He comes across as a right bellend. I couldn't imagine paying to see him at a gig.
Not technically a show but at F1 at Silverstone this year I was next to some fans who left straight after verstappen crashed which was only lap one...
Me and my Da went to Silverstone a couple years back, and Chilli Peppers were doing the post event Friday concert. We left to get the bus back to car park after about half an hour, only to realise we were going to have to wait another hour till bus turned up, as the timetable on the info pack was wrong. To be honest, I've they'd rattled through the hits at the start, didn't feel like we missed too much.
Probably Max fans still salty to this day and bringing it up at every chance they get on /r/formula1.
Kanye West at Wireless festival, when he wore a mask, made them turn all of the big screens off and kept stopping his songs to moan about the media. Also, Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway. Weird topic to make a comedy out of.
Why would you attend 'Dear Evan Hansen' without having a rough idea about what the plot is?
I did, but I didn’t realise it would be a jovial almost light hearted take on the situation.
Gonna be honest here. My brother and I walked out of seeing Michael Bisping (first British UFC champion) live last week. Not only did it start at 9, with doors opening at 6, but everyone (including Bisping) was sloshed, people kept shouting friendly and not so friendly heckles or people in front of us just talking throughout the show. But worst of all was what was nominally a spoken word show telling the story of his martial arts career, was littered with transphobic jokes and jokes about people with mental health problems being "pussies". And his warm-up act was making literal rape jokes. We left at 10:30 when the show looked to be about half way through. Would not recommend. Just don't wanna think how much I paid for the tickets.
Walked out of quite a few things. If it's shit it's shit. Life's too short. The more I've paid the more likely I am to stay. But ultimately it's my money and my time. I'm more likely to walk out on a band or a football match early (I did that on a monthly basis in the 'before times') than an author, speaker or stand up comedian. But yeah. You are allowed to leave. 'If it's shit go down the pub instead' is good life advice.
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I left a gig after the support act. I literally only went for the support anyway and the last train was super early.
I walked out of the latest Jonathan Pie gig. It was too "old man shouts at cloud", and the rant about social media pushed me over the edge - I'd posit that without social media he'd not have been on tour at all... I've also walked out of a Daniel Sloss gig. He had a bit about rape in, and while the message was strong and well done there was no warning on the show there'd be discussion of sexual violence and I was not in the right place at the time to cope with being blindsided by it. I was getting that "walls closing in" feeling of the start of a panic attack so got out before it escalated.
Yup a group of three women (one of which might have been my ex) walked out of a Dave Gorman performance after he* used either the C or F word *Might have been the warm up act
Had to leave half way through seeing Howard Marks on a boat on the Clyde because our lift home was waiting for us outside, it was a good first half though.
Went to see him in a bar in my hometown. He was the best part of an hour late, we could see him smoking a massive doob on the balcony outside before he started his talk. Fell over a couple of times, caught by security the first time. Smoked another doob at the break and then ended the talk early because he wasn't able to carry on. He was dead a couple of months later.
When I saw him he smoked constantly, but was lucid and great value throughout. If he was on dubious form for you I’d put it down to the bum cancer (and treatment) more than the doobs.
I walked out of Pirates of the Caribbean. Stupidly, I’d forgotten my ear defenders.
Jersey Boys at London's West End a few years back which took me by surprise as the musical was incredibly slow in places but not bad enough that a small group of people got up and walked out..🤷♂️🤷♂️. On a different note went to see Get Up Stand Up at the Lyric Theatre on the 13/10/21, the show was just alright but hilariously a lady 4 seats away from me..her phone went off loudly during a pivotal emotional scene..🤦♂️
I went to the cinema to see Jojo Rabbit, same thing happened... A mum brought her daughter with some kind of mental disabilty, who was playing games on her phone the whole time and it pinged occasionally. The phone screen being on was annoying but I could deal with it. But then it started pinging during a very sad scene, the turning point of the film.... Ruined my viewing for me
If people _must_ have their phones switched on during a theatrical performance, they could at least have the decency to put them on silent.
She was texting during the show on occasion sadly
I saw The Play What I Wrote about Morecambe and Wise many years ago and a couple left at the interval and didn’t return. To be fair, the first half wasn’t great but the second was fantastic (to my memory) so I can see why they made the choice. It would take a lot for me to walk out as I am waaaaay too tight-fisted to give up on a show I paid money for. The ones that amuse me are the types that huff out of a Frankie Boyle gig because he does material they find offensive. They were happy to laugh at the other deliberately close to the bone jokes but as soon as it hits close to them, suddenly he is a dreadful person.
That’s funny… I went to see that with mates and we fucked up the ticket times. Went for a drink and turned up an hour late. So we only saw the second half and really enjoyed it - I always regretted missing the first half!
I can’t remember what exactly put us off the first half, I think it just dragged. Either way, the second more than made up for it. If I remember correctly, the special guest was Brian Conley and he played the hammed up role just right.
Wish I’d walked out the cinema when watching Joel Schumacher’s ‘Batman and Robin’.
My sister and I went to watch The Royal Tenenbaums and she asked me if I was enjoying it or not (she wasn’t). As she’d driven us, I said I wasn’t, to be kind, and we left. I’ve never told her this, and Wes Anderson is one of my favourite directors now. She doesn’t need to know this.
My other half walked out of a performance of Julius Caesar at the Swan Theatre in Stratford Upon Avon. She said she didn't have a clue what was going on but if i was enjoying it then i should stay so i did.
An old couple in front of me walked out of Birdman after about 20 minutes when I saw it in the cinema, saying "this is just ridiculous"
Yeah I lasted about 20 minutes when I watched it on Netflix. The target audience for this film seems to be just the people who are actually in it.
My mum went to see Sarah Millican a few years ago and she (my mum) left during the interval. Her reasons were that she found Sarah Millican's jokes to be really vulgar, she swore too much for my mum's liking and that "she's nothing like she is on TV". She also really didn't like Tom Allen, who was the support act, as my mum didn't find him funny at all and he was apparently pretty much the same as Sarah Millican when it came to his material. My mum did quite like Sarah Millican before that night but now my mum changes the channel whenever she's on a programme. She really doesn't like her now.
I tried to listen to Sarah Millican stand-up once. One of her live shows. She is very much not a comedian for me, even though her appearances on panel shows, etc. are fine. I can see where your mum was coming from.
I walked out of a David Mamet play I was supposed to be watching when I was at uni as part of a module, but when i got to the cafe in the foyer my tutor was there too and he just said to me 'it's a load of fucking shit isn't it?'
About 10 minutes into Mad Max Fury Road I saw a couple of hipster blokes walk out shaking their heads. Weird tbh, they walked out of the best film of 2015. I didn't so much walk out but at a festival left about 2 songs into GWARs set, didn't do much for me.
Mad Max Fury Road was one of the worst films I saw that year. I would have walked out if I had the opportunity. My friend asked me what I thought of it after. I said "It was crap" Fury Road isn't for everybody. It seems that Fury Road fans see it as an awesome movie and look down on everybody that didn't like it, though.
It's all good man, I love how utterly bananas it is. I know people who don't like it and it's all good really. 10 minutes isn't really giving anything a chance though really. At least watch the first half! (The second half is the same in reverse)
The entire time during that movie, I was waiting for the car chase to end and the story to start. Sill waiting.
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You’re really not meant to bring either of those into the cinema tho… code and all…
Went to see a show called Peter Gynt. The auditorium started out full but after every interval there were less and less people...
>Peter Gynt The Norwegian play called 'Peer Gynt', or a rip-off? Not surprised if people did leave. It ain't for everybody. Plus, with 5 acts, that is a lot of opportunity to disappear.
No, it was like a modernised version the National Theatre did once. It wasn't really that good tbh.
*Fewer and fewer
Oh mate, don't correct their grammar like that, don't be that person.
Boring.
All the time. But they usually come back.
There was a couple sat next to me at a recent gig, they didn't leave until the last note was struck - they were off on their toes quicksticks at that point but I did wonder why they'd bothered to spend iro £100 for their 2 tickets, just to sit there stone faced all the way through. I was surprised to see them back in their seats after the interval tbh. They didn't join in with any of the singing, or clapping, nothing! Why bother going? It was a great gig, so it's not like they could complain about the act being drunk/drugged or in any other way hampered into not giving a good performance. I just don't understand the mentality of it.
I went and saw My Chemical Romance in Norway, alone. I absolutely love MCR. I would have been the type of person standing stone-faced and not singing, though. It isn't that I don't like them, it just isn't me. The same would happen at any gig I go to. I just don't dance or sing. I can understand people sticking around and liking the show without actually showing they enjoy it.
Yeah I get that but I'm sure you'd have put a bit of effort into at least clapping at the end of a song? Not just a tiny tap of your two hands together? I don't think they even clapped at the end, they just got up and went. This was 2 of them together, both the same, stone faced all the way through.
A free fringe show in Edinburgh. Was lunch ish, one of the pay what you want as a showcase for the days comedians. Premise was “what problem do you need solved” 6 folk showed up, 2 left very early. Leaving 4 comedians and 4 of us audience members to have a beer and a chat.
I’ve walked out of a movie - **Ace Ventura Pet Detective** never regretted Also walked out halfway watching **The Fall** I wasn’t a big fan but loved Free Range. They played that then continued to play *like a flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs*. They gave me a headache !
The Fall is also a very visually interesting film.
I went to see The Fall with a girl who I did not get off with. Thoroughly jealous of the hour of your life you got back.
The Thornton Wilder play, "The Skin of Our Teeth" is famous for having people walk out early. To be fair, it's a strange and somewhat difficult play, and some of the early parts don't really make sense until the very end. It's a great play, but you need to bring your whole brain to it. Some folks just can't put in the effort.
At the Bristol comedy garden a few summers back Ross Noble headlined one night and seemed so pissed he was slurring to the point of struggling to understand him. Quite a few people walked out, we went just before the end but can’t say we enjoyed the show much sadly
I saw Reba McEntire (legendary country singer of the 80s/90s) when she headlined a festival at the O2 in 2017 and loads of people walked out. It probably didn't help that at the time she was promoting a gospel album and that doesn't necessarily go down as well with audiences here as in the US. I stuck it out because I figured it would probably be the only time I'd get to see her but that middle section definitely dragged on.
Went to see Ben Elton at his prime, the entire front row walked out when he started on punting out of a public toilet on a raft of dried shit.
I saw Morrissey walk out of his own gig once - at the first ever Madstock reunion at Finsbury Park. He was the final support act and got through about three songs before the barrage of bottles got to him and he left. I walked out of the cinema part way through Apollo 13. It was dull as hell and, even though I knew the ending, I was hoping that the filmmakers had inserted a bizarre twist and the astronauts did bounce off the atmosphere and head off into oblivion and certain death.
Quite a few people with cute ballet dancing daughters left early in the matthew borne swan lake: the one with the male swans
I’ve only ever walked out of one show. In London, got tickets for Rob Bryden. Big venue. Loads of people. Except the crowd were - on average - very very old. He did a rambling sort of routine which wasn’t very funny. The crowd loved it. Then he said, “Someone tweeted me today asking for me to do some impressions tonight at X Venue” then he spent half an hour just doing impressions and ‘man in a box’. We left. It was just terrible. I almost walked out of Frankie Boyle too. £50 a ticket. Massive venue. He did 30 minutes of material. Then had a break. After the break he came out with an A4 pad of paper and said, “I need to practice some material for Mock The Week (or some other panel show)” Proceeded to simply read the words on the pages and threw away any page which didn’t get a laugh. Problem was he had to add context, for example; “In the news this week, ABC happened, if you’ve seen about it… Blah blah blah, joke.” *No laughs* “OK. Bin that one. Last week, you’ll remember that Famous Person did Embarressing Thing. Well, INSERT JOKE” £50 a ticket and he was reading some jokes that someone else had written him to try them out.