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The Heckler. The Heckler is someone who interrupts some type of performance or activity with their own commentary, disrupting the way it was originally intended to go. Usually it is intentional, a way to get attention and possibly discredit whatever they are heckling.
Contemporary Examples. 1  He was a Harvard Law grad who was streetwise enough to demolish a heckler. 2  He got a huge reaction, which could not have discouraged him from taking on a heckler at a Meg Whitman event a few days later. 3  Glaser says attacking the audience is off-limits, though she did call a heckler a âc--tâ once.