Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stand-up comedy has a crowd work problem, and I don't see it letting up any time soon. Crowd work used to be one of many tools of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Life is a bit surreal for Jeff Arcuri these days. Though he's been a stand-up comedian for over 14 years, most people in the world ...

NPR's A Martinez talks with comedian Jeff Arcuri about the stand-up comic art of crowd work, which involves talking to audience members and ad-libbing off what they say. A MARTÍNEZ, BYLINE: One of the ...

No one loves a heckler. And most art forms aren’t improved by uninvited audience participation. An actor playing Hamlet might be thrown by an eager fan trying to answer “to be or not to be?” and a ...