What do you do when the mood in the room turns sour?
What if your audience is hostile? How do you handle it? It’s a sad commentary of the times that this question is coming up frequently enough that I thought it time to offer some solutions to this ticklish problem.
I once saw the magic act of Penn and Teller, and Penn was quite edgy and combative with the audience. By the time he threw a bunny into a wood chipper, and spattered the stage with apparent bunny blood, the audience was ready to turn on him, and that’s exactly what they did. At some level, he deserved the reaction he got, since his own actions provoked the rather predictable result.
That was all part of the act. But when an audience objects to something a speaker is doing or saying, it’s more typically because of political differences of some kind.
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