Comedian And Psychic Tiffany King Subjects Trapped AMC Audience To Her Standup Routine During 'The Lost City' Screening

An audience of Los Angeles moviegoers has thankfully reported no serious injuries after they were subjected to an unprompted standup comedy routine while waiting to view The Lost City.

On Wednesday evening, an AMC movie theater had a projector malfunction, causing the start of the Sandra Bullock-Channing Tatum screwball comedy to be delayed. In an apparent effort to keep spirits high, comedian and psychic Tiffany King began doing her standup routine in front of the crowd. It was generally not received well.

all hell broke loose at the AMC Burbank 16 last night pic.twitter.com/Q6sTXPSxI5

— charley damski (@sorry__charley) March 24, 2022

I feel like I’m having an out of body experience pic.twitter.com/YYNwyk8ez4

— April Dawn (@April13Dawn) March 23, 2022

I’m at the AMC cinema waiting for Lost City. The projector is broken, they’ve been working to fix it for 30 minutes. A woman in the audience has decided to get up, go to the front and try out her stand up comedy on us. It’s not good. I just… 🤦‍♀️

— Kat Wood (@katruthwood) March 23, 2022

The routine featured many moments of singing and jokes about being a single mother. The crowd heckles her and, more notably, rarely laughs. The whole thing is deeply uncomfortable, giving it an air of a Punk'd or Sacha Baron Cohen stunt.

Social media was aghast at the multiple viral videos of the incident, as many seemed to concur that bad impromptu standup comedy should be a federal crime.

I am thinking about how unfunny the person who started doing a standup set at the AMC in Burbank due to a projector failure must be. perfect convergence of factors leading to a category 5 theater kid

— Dan O'Sullivan (👻 NOW LIVE ON GHOST 👻 ) (@osullyville) March 25, 2022

New irrational fear just dropped: doing something so unhinged in public that 3 separate people go viral tweeting about it pic.twitter.com/vs4Hh4udLF

— Brittany Van Horne (@_brittanyv) March 24, 2022

Unsolicited stand-up comedy should be a felony.

— pretty hate machine⚒🌻💙 (@MusicFck) March 24, 2022

NBC caught up with King to get the scoop on what caused her to subject the audience to her standup. King explained she did it on a dare from her 8-year-old daughter. She also explained that she's tuned out "all the negative comments" about her impromptu set on social media.

"I know how hard comedy is, so I'm happy I did it, and I don't care what the negative stuff is," she said.