This Austin comedy show turns heckling into a rite of passage

Bombing is only the beginning at the Banana Phone comedy show at the Creek and the Cave.

“There’s a lot of division in this country,” co-host Michael Ridley told the crowd on a recent Sunday night. “But there’s one thing that unites us: basking in the cringe of someone else’s failures.”

The comedy show doubles as a form of masochism. Comedians go on stage, do one minute of material, and after they’re done, the hosts and the entire audience heckle and roast them…

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