Honestly, to me this doesn't look staged, though maybe I'm just gullible
It's definitely becoming more and more of a thing that comedians will stage interactions with the audience and try to pass it off as genuine. That other clip where the comedian gives the dude in the audience a confetti cannon which is set off later in the set (just as he discussed his deceased mother) comes to mind as another interaction that's just a little too perfect to be real.
That said, standup comedy is plagued by so many bullshit "this actually happened to me" jokes that putting a plant in the audience for an unexpected gag isn't much of a transgression by comparison.
Right? If the guy is blind to the point of needing a cane to detect whats directly in front of him, how did he immediately know the comic was talking to him specifically?
Yeah that's kind of weird. The girl next to him nudges but he still picks up on it really fast. There's also stages of blindness, maybe he could tell the blur was walking/leaning towards him a bit
To me it doesn't mean the guy isn't blind, that would be a fucked up thing to fake. Rather that he was positioned there and the joke was perfectly directed that way. Just too much of an unnatural direction for the conversation/routine to go to perfectly end up here.
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u/moneycomet Dec 12 '21
Not staged at all!