Robin’s theatrical training had given him a voice loud enough that he did not need a microphone to project himself, and he used this to his advantage. “If people started heckling you, you just wade over into the audience and go near their table,” he said. “Or move away from them, and use the other side of the room, and fuck the loud people over here, the drunks at the bar.” Sometimes he would wander into his audience, establishing a trademark move that helped distinguish him from his competitors. “If you were on mike, you did the standard thing where people could kind of lose track,” he said.
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