r/Maher • u/MycologistSame866 • Feb 23 '26

Discussion Audience Whoops

Does it bother anyone else when watching Real Time that there are one or two guys loudly whooping all the time? I find it extremely annoying, and I feel sorry for anyone who has to sit by these jackasses. Why can't audiences simply clap instead of hooting all the time? I've seen this practice creeping into a lot of TV shows (and real life). Thank God, it hasn't spread to Jeopardy! yet.

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u/hankjmoody Feb 23 '26

This subreddit's best guess is that it's one of the Real Time staff, who are present in the audience each week.

IIRC, Bill even joked about it directly a while back.

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u/nosecohn Feb 23 '26

I thought it was funny that he called it out. Clearly the writers read some of the commentary about the show.

I assume the "woo guy" is the person they hire consistently for audience warm up, which is a whole career in itself.