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Mitch Hedberg dead?

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It's sad that the greatest comedian to ever live has to die before April Fools Day so that the seriousness of this event is lost on everyone. No one will ever replace Mitch. He was the funniest man to ever live.
 
Hasn't Stern pulled the dead celeb joke before? Can't remember who it was though; some 80's era personality i think.

Would REALLY hate for this to be true though. I've always enjoyed his many appearances on Letterman. Maybe Dave will have something to say about it if its true.
 
Im listening to his CD now, god I love it :lol :lol :lol

I really hope this is an elaborate April Fools joke, I just introduced Mitch to like 4 of my friends and they love him too
 
Boogie9IGN said:
Im listening to his CD now, god I love it :lol :lol :lol

I really hope this is an elaborate April Fools joke, I just introduced Mitch to like 4 of my friends and they love him too
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Me too. It's not looking good so far though. =_(
 
I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for ME.

I was walking down the street with my friend and he said "I hear music." As though there's any other way to take it in. You're not special. That's how I receive it too...I tried to taste it, but it did not work.

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.

One time a guy handed me a picture of himself and he said. "Here's a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture of you is of when you were younger. Here's a picture of me when I'm older. How'd you pull that off? Let me see that camera.

I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs. :lol :lol :lol
 
Hunter S Thompson and Hedberg in the same month =(

He was supposed to be here in May, but the comedy club's website now says that the show is cancelled and tickets will be refunded. If this is a hoax then it would be pretty insane and stupid -- fucking with this many club owners would be very bad for your career.
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
It's sad that the greatest comedian to ever live has to die before April Fools Day so that the seriousness of this event is lost on everyone. No one will ever replace Mitch. He was the funniest man to ever live.
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I do believe Dimitri Martin could fit the bill quite well. Ever seen him? He's pretty similar to Mitch in style, and also hilarious.
 
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

:lol
 
I think I've heard this guy before. Tell me if this is a joke of his:

"There's a new product out that waters plants. It says: "for all your hard to reach plants"". Now, who would make their plants hard to reach? That seems so very cruel."

--something like that.

I've heard this guy (Mitch or not) a few times on the radio. He has a really distinct way of delivering jokes. Really, really funny.
 
Yup, that's one of his.



I like this one the most...



'When you go to a restaurant on the weekends and it's busy they start a waiting list. They start calling out names, they say "Dufresne, party of two. Dufresne, party of two." And if no one answers they'll say their name again. "Dufresne, party of two, Dufresne, party of two." But then if no one answers they'll just go right on to the next name. "Bush, party of three." Yeah, what happened to the Dufresnes? No one seems to give a shit. Who can eat at a time like this - people are missing. You fuckers are selfish....the Dufresnes are in someone's trunk right now, with duct tape over their mouths. And they're hungry. That's a double whammy. Bush, search party of three, you can eat when you find the Dufresnes.'
 
Fatty Melon said:
'When you go to a restaurant on the weekends and it's busy they start a waiting list. They start calling out names, they say "Dufresne, party of two. Dufresne, party of two." And if no one answers they'll say their name again. "Dufresne, party of two, Dufresne, party of two." But then if no one answers they'll just go right on to the next name. "Bush, party of three." Yeah, what happened to the Dufresnes? No one seems to give a shit. Who can eat at a time like this - people are missing. You fuckers are selfish....the Dufresnes are in someone's trunk right now, with duct tape over their mouths. And they're hungry. That's a double whammy. Bush, search party of three, you can eat when you find the Dufresnes.'
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:lol :lol :lol :lol
 
Fatty Melon said:
Yup, that's one of his.
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:(

It's strange that I find out this way. The radio station that I used to listen to would play clips of his during a "comedy break", but never say who it was. So I was a big fan of his and never knew his name. :\ Is there any place where I can download audio or video of him?

-edit- ok, I see that he has a CD out. I'll have to buy it.

I like this one the most...

'When you go to a restaurant on the weekends and it's busy they start a waiting list. They start calling out names, they say "Dufresne, party of two. Dufresne, party of two." And if no one answers they'll say their name again. "Dufresne, party of two, Dufresne, party of two." But then if no one answers they'll just go right on to the next name. "Bush, party of three." Yeah, what happened to the Dufresnes? No one seems to give a shit. Who can eat at a time like this - people are missing. You fuckers are selfish....the Dufresnes are in someone's trunk right now, with duct tape over their mouths. And they're hungry. That's a double whammy. Bush, search party of three, you can eat when you find the Dufresnes.'
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:lol
 
Im still not believing it.. no major source is running the story. I mean, its possible they wouldnt run the story.. but I doubt that... every place that is running the story would either be in on the gag (Comedy Central, friends, etc.) or easily duped (small newspapers).
 
My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light, a bunch of koala bears scatter, but I don't want them too. I'm like, "Hey... Hold on fellows... Let me hold one of you, and feed you a leaf." Koala bears are so cute, why do they have to be so far away from me. We need to ship a few over, so I can hold one, and pat it on its head.

I had a velco wallet in a casino. That sound annoyed the hell out of me. Whenever I lost money, and I opened the wallet, it was like the sound of my addiction.

This shirt is dry clean only. Which means...it's dirty.

Pickles are cucumbers that sold out.

mitch-me.jpg

so sad :(
 
I played golf....I did not get a hole in one, but I did hit a guy and that's way more satisfying. You're supposed to yell FORE, but I was too busy mumbling there ain't no way that's gonna hit him.
 
:( :(

Honestly, standup genius is lacking and he was filling so much of the void. He was amazing and likeable as hell :(

rip
 
I saw him live once and it was great. Towards the end he just dragged out a slip of paper with jokes he wrote the night before and started throwing them out to see if they worked. Then at some point he stumbled around on stage and backed into the backdrop painting which had the capitol building on and he just blurts out something like "oh shit, I have just destroyed your goverment. Your capitol building is weak."
 
I hope this is just a joke. He is too great to die. Anyway, more of his jokes:

With stoplights, green means go and yellow means hold on. But with bananas, it's all different: green means hold on, and yellow means go ahead, and red? Where the hell did you get your bananas?

My sister says I'm weird, but I'm not the one who's weird, she's the one that's weird! For example, in her house, she has a picture of her familiy, and everyone is looking slightly left. Like something really interesting happened to the left right as they took the picture. Except my sister is cross eyed, so one is looking left, and one is looking staight ahead.
 
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/11278099.htm

Comedian Mitch Hedberg dead at 37

BY MATT PEIKEN

Pioneer Press

Even family and close friends had a hard time understanding Mitch Hedberg, a St. Paul native who ran away from home and, despite living a scattershot life, became a runaway success as a standup comic.

Hedberg, whose space-case persona was as much part of his soul as it was his act, died early Wednesday morning in a New Jersey hotel room. He was 37. A medical examiner hasn't issued findings, but Hedberg's family is told he suffered a heart attack. His wife was with him.

After graduating St. Paul's Harding High School, Hedberg rose through the ranks at Minneapolis' Acme Comedy Co., and caught his big break through a Comedy Central special. He made several appearances on David Letterman's and Conan O'Brien's shows, made more Comedy Central appearances and produced two comedy CDs. His big dream, to have an HBO comedy special, was in the works.

Hedberg's one-liners, dished off in a spacy staccato, were based on absurdist, random observations. His long, dirty blond hair harkened to the image of a 1970s stoner, and his success occurred in light of, in spite of and even because of his quarter-century affair with drugs and alcohol.

"I'd probably be living in Costa Rica, eating oranges on the beach, if I wasn't doing comedy," he told the Pioneer Press last September.

"There's no two ways about — having a son in entertainment industry is challenging," his mother, Mary Hedberg, said Thursday.

She recalls being at work when her oldest daughter called in a panic to tell her Mitch had packed some brown paper bags and left home. Mary Hedberg couldn't get home in time to either see him off or talk him out of it.

"That was heartbreaking for us, but he kept in contact with us. He called as soon as the car broke down," she said. "You know, it was like putting him through college, even though he wasn't at college. But when he got his first break, we were just so thrilled for him, because we wanted him to know he was O.K., and to have that self-confidence that he could do what he wanted to do."

Louis Lee, owner of the Acme, said Hedberg not only became the Twin Cities' first breakout comedian of the 1990s but, along with Lewis Black, helped shape a national resurgence in standup comedy.

"It's very difficult for one-liner comedians to get an audience going, but when Mitch worked here, you could see the kids call out the punchline," Lee said. "Mitch made the whole comedy community realize how important good writing is. It's a huge loss."

Unlike many comics, Hedberg was demonstrably thankful to his fans. Not long ago, a group of college students in Florida, speaking with Hedberg backstage after a show, mentioned how hot their dorm room was. Hedberg surprised them the next morning by showing up to their dorm with a new air conditioner.

"Mitch presented a lot of challenges, but a lot of opportunities for traveling that we wouldn't have otherwise had, and he had a heart of gold," his mother said. "He was a brilliant comic and a wonderful person."

Dates haven't been set, but eventual visitation and services will be at Wulff Family Services, Woodlane Mortuary, in Woodbury.
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RIP, Mitch.
 
I was just listening to an interview of Hedberg and his wife (another comedian). They mentioned how he does well in managing his money...

Hedberg: ...You see that movie uhh... Robert Redford and Brad Pitt... Spy Game. Well he had accumulated, what, 275 thousand and he was about to go down to the Bahamas and kick it. Y'know, so that's what I wanna do. I wanna be able to kick it in the last years of my life. So I think that's wise.

:(
 
"I was walking by a dry cleaner at 3am and the sign said 'sorry, we're closed'. You don't have to be sorry, it's 3am and you're a dry cleaner. It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open. I'm not going to walk in at 10am and say hey man I walked by at 3 and you guys were closed. Somebody owes me an apology."
 
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