Favorite complement

[abe_normal]

You never know who or how you're going to effect your crowds. Today after I finshed doing a show a woman came up to me and told me that her granddaughter had been in a horrible house fire 2 yrs. ago and ever since she has been deathly afraid of fire to the point of running away from a lighter. She then told me that her granddaughter had laughed and clapped all through the fire parts of my act. She thanked me for showing her daughter that if you're careful and act smart about fire it doesn't have to be so scary. I was just wondering if anybody else has had an unexpected effect on someone in the crowd.

[$cottbox]

Yeah I busk my beatboxing, many people after I perform are inspired to start their own beatboxing, many stop with frustraion it seems, it takes years upon years to have your stuff on pat. You need to be devoted to aquire any talent!!

[em]

i sometimes get things like "its great that you can be so ugly" or "its great to see a funny woman"....never quite sure if thats a complement, are women meant to be beautiful and not funny?

[Dan Tastik]

an eight year old boy. "you are cooler than the people on Fear Factor."

happened nearly two years ago and i still treasure it.

[Butterfly Man]

"you rock, old dude" - Edmonton '98

Someone called me:

"transcendentally abusive"

I'm not sure what it means or what they meant but I love the feeling I get when I do it.

[pablo]

My favorite flattering comment frrom a client...

would have to be:

"You kick ass!" from Jan Bilgen at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

I wanted to put her quote on my website & t-shirts, but Jan wouldn't give me permission to use it. Rats.

[Doctor Eric]

I told this twelve-year-old heckler (who claimed he had freedom of speech) that I have freedom of foot, and I'd kick his little ass up and down the street, as well as a bunch of other stuff, after the show, his Dad came up with a big smile, shook my hand and said "He needed to hear everything you told him, thank you!"

[Pyromancer]

[brag mode=ON]

"You burn brighter than the torches in your hands!" and
"You are the best fireperformer I have ever seen..."

Unfortunately, I heared this so many times, it's getting boring...

[brag mode=OFF]

[martin ewen]

This beautiful unblemished woman skipped up to me wide-eyed after a show and thanked me and explained that she had been a blind cripple with eczema before being wheeled to the front of my crowd.

[Stephon]

A kid leaving the audience after my show said to her friend, "That was not appropriate for children."

[Kim]

I was given a 2kg trophy and a twisted ankle for landing on 4 rows of children

[jayrodin]

I did Riverfest in Wichita KS (my home) right before I left to travel the states. This old bum came up to me with a handfull of change while I was taking a break and said "Man, it took me a few hours to panhandle all of this and usually I'd spend it on drugs but man, you are like a drug all in yourself.".

Another time this dude came up to me after I was done playing gave me a long firm handshake telling me he was sorry he didn't have any money but he'd just gotten out of jail and blah blah blah, but he told me he was so down that day seeing my show saved his life.

These are pretty much the only compliments that have ever meant anything to me.

[jesus]

About an hour after a show at a festival in Galveston Texas a kid saw me walking by and said, :
"Hey you're that man in that nasty show!"
I might add that it was said with great glee.

[em]

hmm

A 9 year old boy came up to me the day after a show and said "you're Nigella Lawson, the crack whore!"

.....i didn't know what to say...what was that child doing watching that car crash of a show at Glastonbury anyway?

Sorry no-one out there will get the reference...its an english thing...

Needless to say the show got banned...it needed to.
x

[The Pretty Good]

A handshake

So I was shut down in Union Sq tonight by the police. The crowd was a rowdy drunken mess. In true form they all started to boo the Police. I jumped onto my case, blew my whistle and told he crowd not to boo them. In the same breath mentioned I was here for money. When I got off my case to collect The cop who shut me down was waiting to shake my hand. And his buddies added "we already told you to stop, why not call it a night."