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A Twitter pet peeve of mine

As my 96k+ Twitter followers should know by now, I specialize in snark/satire, especially on the political front. Roughly 95% of the responses I receive are appreciated. These consist of: Likes, retweets, compliments, additional snark, humorous gifs, etc. There is one type of response which slightly aggravates me, however: the accusatory add-on. This is when a person comments on a joke with something like, "You forgot x." or "Y. There, fixed it for you."

Can you imagine if this is how fans/audience members responded to stand-up comedians?

George Carlin: "Bowling isn't a sport because you have to rent the shoes."

Audience member 1: "Hey, you forgot about sticking your fingers in holes!"

Audience member 2: "Yeah, or sometimes your balls get stuck!"

Audience member 3: "...and what about those bumpers?"

Audience member 1: "Jeff, is that you?"

Audience member 3: "Yeah! Tony?!?"

Audience member 1: "Yeah. Your add-on was stupid! Shut your hole!"

Audience member 3: "That's not what your wife told me last night!"

Audience member 1: "What?!? You wanna go?!? Anyway, my wife was at a Jewish bingo tournament last night!"

Audience member 3: "You bought that?!? She's frickin' Muslim!"

Audience member 2: "Both of you shut-up! Anyway, she was with me. We played doctor. Well, I played doctor - a gynecologist to be exact."

Carlin: "WTF is going on here?!? Get I get on with my f*ckin' show, please?"

Yeah, that'd go over well...
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