Hello, everyone.

[Albert]

I can think of one reason why hecklers do what they do.

They want the attention or want to sound smart. Hecklers are trolls. You can't feed them. If you give them positive attention, they will grow bigger and feel that they are in charge of the performance. But ignoring them is bad. It makes them think that they are right and they get bigger again (in terms of dominance in the group)

A good way to make those hecklers believe you are real may be either to use their items or even do a mentalism/mind-reading tricks. Those kind of things can't be "disturbed" by hecklers if you can do it right.

For example, if you have Loops (I just got mine xD) you have a perfect setup to use their money/bill, glasses, fork, pen, etc. if you can perform it correctly. Mind reading is also great.