Female comic roasts man who picked a fight with her. Neither expected it to end in wedding vows

Crowd work is unpredictable by nature, but no one in the audience at Caroline’s Comedy Club that night could have guessed how the show would begin — or end. The evening was already off to a rough start when a man got into an argument with a woman who was descending the stairs before the show even started. That woman was Nataly Aukar (@natyourcolor), a comedian whose routine often draws on sharp observational humor and personal storytelling. She opened her set by saying, "I had a weird start to this show," going on to add, "I walked down the stairs, a guy tried to start a fight with me, and now he's in the front row. What's up, dude?"

The audience laughed as she pointed him out. Aukar explained, "I was walking down the stairs. He's like, 'Look at this b*** f**** cutting the line.' I was like, 'I'm a comic. I'm working.'" The guys replied, "Oh yeah, that was me." She continued poking fun at him, "You're sitting front row and you were late. Don't look at me. We're not gonna save you." The man sat through it, smiling. She said, "My whole life, I prepared for this. Every man who's hurt me now is you. It's YOU." Later, gesturing at the crowd and back at him, she asked, "Why aren't you clapping?" before adding, "You were pretty tough up on the stairs. Is one of them your girlfriend?" Before moving on with her show, she quickly added one last time, "You better laugh at every joke I tell you."

What neither the crowd nor the comic knew at the time was that this interaction would become the first chapter of a love story. The overlay reads, "She doesn't know it yet, but three years from now, the man she's yelling at is gonna propose to her and she's gonna say yes." In the caption, Aukar wrote, "The moment we met is where our relationship peaked and it's all been downhill from there (for him. Uphill for me)."  What began as a public misstep turned into an unexpected connection. The video has been widely shared since it was posted, and people couldn't get enough.

@mikeamandes wrote, "This is sweet. It also gives a lot of hope to single guys who go see female comics. Not sure if that's a good thing." @madebyhzm commented, "Your story feels like it's straight out of a movie. I wish you both many long, happy years together." @lauragmccabe noted, "It's so f'n great that someone recorded this exchange! The fact that doing so was accidental makes the story even better. What an epic meet-cute!" @abzalicomedy added, "'Mom, how did you guys meet?' Check your DMs, child, Momma sent you a video." @haneenelnakouzi wrote, "The fact that he sat there and took it is the green flag for me. He knew what he did."

@b.adam922 joked, "Ofc it's only downhill from there. You have condensed a full 50-year marriage into that intro." @regularkirtu added, "My new favorite thing is comedians yelling 'look at me' because how dare they. Nataly walked so Natalie could run." @solyom_sarkany quipped, "'Every man that ever hurt me is now YOU' — I guess you got back at him the worst way possible — by saying yes."

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