Mitch Hedberg RIP

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This is what im hearing from a reputable source. No link yet. I love you MITCH!!

charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

man if it's true i'm gonna be even more bummed.

hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

aww, crap!

Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Say it ain't so. :(

Matt Chesnut (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

koalas are crying!

Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

this is all i can find thus far:

Comment 22 posted by JP on March 26, 2005 02:12 PM:
I am employeed by a comedy club in VA where Mitch was scheduled to appear Wed. March 21st thru Today, the 26th. Unfortunately, Mitch has been 'ill' and just not shown up for work Wed, Thurs, and 2 shows on Friday. A phone call would have been nice, but we're all just standing around waiting and hoping he'll come staggering thru our door. So, Mitch if you ever read this, please remember that many people's livelyhood depend on your attendance.

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/24/131428.php

charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://vision-nary.com/mediahostages/images/uploads/mitch.jpg

charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.pulsetc.com/hottickets/bw_mitch1.jpg

charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.krisshaw.com/pics/mitchhedberghug.JPG

charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

if this all turns out to be true then here is a clip from his final performance

http://www.themaydecember.net/Images/robbie/mhfilmclip.wmv

charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

what the FUCK

retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 31 March 2005 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

yah lets hope its not true

charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 31 March 2005 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Sweet lord this better not be true.

stephen morris (stephen morris), Thursday, 31 March 2005 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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.

Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i went to see a doctor, but all i got was my blood sucked. do not go to dr acula.

charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 31 March 2005 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

still can't find conf of this

kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Thursday, 31 March 2005 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

no conf yet but:

http://p089.ezboard.com/faspecialthingthetenaciousdfanboardfrm2.showMessage?topicID=2504.topic

"Notice Scott Auckerman confirming it. Scott is a former cast member and writer on Mr. Show who knew Mitch and "in search of Sasquatch" is the owner of the board, so it's doubtful that they're just making it up. I've seen it mentioned on Louis CK's board as well. I've checked out several other comedy related boards so far and a lot of them are talking about it, but no real news sources have confirmed it yet. Apparently it just happened tonight."

charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck fuck fuck this better not be true...

Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

yah its true... Stern has been talking about it for 10 minutes now.

charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The last interview?

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781753994

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

He was just on Howard Stern last week!
RIP

57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Some of his best.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a major bummer. RIP, Mitch.

Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned,
that link doesn't have the one about the emergency brake should be called the make-the-car-smelly lever. I guess that's why you put Some of his best.

Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Precisely.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

He was totally Steven Wright for a new generation.

Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I will be sad if this is true.

Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

And to think all I ever really heard about the guy was my friends raving about him.

RIP

Dan M. (OutDatWay), Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

AW FUCK!
He was my fucking hero. Fuck fuck fuck.

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i guess they've been announcing it on howard stern all morning. his annoucements are running pretty parallel to what's on the above referenced message board--no facts seem to be known.

brad k! (brad k!), Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Fucking motherfucking goddamn.

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

His website (mitchhedberg.net) says it's been updated today, but there's no mention of him being dead.

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Although:
http://www.comedyzone.com/index2.php?action=shows&id=85

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

helLO check the date ... jeez

mitchs head lol, Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, March Fools is so well known.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 March 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

in JAPAN idiot

globalized second, Thursday, 31 March 2005 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Conceptual.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 March 2005 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

But the reveal could be on April 1. I mean, let's face it, Howard Stern is the only one reporting this (though it's not like Mitch is superfamous), and he's hardly a reliable source. Still...fuck.

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

He did us mitchs proud. RIP.
Does this mean Zach Galafanakis will be more popular now?

mitch dub (ano ano), Thursday, 31 March 2005 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

ZG was on Conan last night, but I couldn't stay up. Is he good?

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Not that they're all that similar.

mitch dub (ano ano), Thursday, 31 March 2005 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

He was pretty funny last night. But I find him to be generally annoying, kinda prissy or something. I never saw his show on VH1. He plays the piano and says stuff like "my girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron (two second piano break) and a lot like Patrick Ewing."

mitch dub (ano ano), Thursday, 31 March 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yet Jerry Falwell cheats death. Fucking a.

Stupornaut (natepatrin), Thursday, 31 March 2005 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, March Fools is so well known.

Haha, that would've totally been something Mitch would have come up with, actually! But he never seemed the type to pull Kaufman type stunts, so my hopes are low :(

Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 31 March 2005 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

there is NOTHING on the real news radar about this AT ALL. Only Howard Stern who has been talking about it all morning and a few internet messageboards.

TOMBOT, Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

this is the true national tragedy today, who cares about some liquid brain chick?

hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

any word on how he died?

mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Early rumours peg it as an OD in NJ.

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah supposedly a heroin overdose.

I am going to go on the record as saying that I think this is a hoax and Howard Stern sucks. It should have popped up SOMEWHERE reliable by now if it had any factual basis.

TOMBOT, Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

His booking agent's number is listed on his website. I've been thinking about calling it, but if he really is dead, I would feel terribly parasitic.

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

as hoaxes go, it's not very funny.

Maria (Maria), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

That's pretty much par for the course with our boy Howard.

TOMBOT, Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I first heard about this from a friend of Mitch's long before Howard was on the air.
Tom, Howard is a good guy and had alot of love for Mitch. He was a friend of the show. Craig Gass (Mitch's roomate for a bit) said he called his wife and confirmed. Doug Stanhope (Mitch's good friend)also contacted the show to confirm. There is probably no news on the AP because Mitch just wasn't that famous.

charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Patton Oswalt and Brian Posehn have confirmed it on the EZboard linked above.

What a shitty thing to happen to an incredibly funny guy. Rest in peace.

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Comedycentral.com confirms.

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Tragically, Mitch Hedberg passed away this week. Mitch was a beloved member of the Comedy Central family, and we join fans in our sadness. He will be missed.

Born and raised in the St. Paul area, Mitch Hedberg decided to start his own comedy career in South Florida. Not so much for the comedy scene, but for the sun. His landlord would drive him up and down the coast from club to club in his pick-up truck where Mitch would lie down in the back to avoid any of the negative conversations his landlord would try to have with him.

Mitch developed his style in Florida and decided to try it out on different audiences. He moved to Seattle and toured throughout the Pacific Northwest honing his act in front of the new audiences. While in Los Angeles, Mitch booked his first television appearance on MTV's "Comikaze" by walking into the MTV offices and personally pitching himself to the talent coordinator. Many cable shows followed including A&E's "Comedy on the Road", Comedy Central's "Comedy Product", and NBC's "Comedy Showcase" hosted by Louie Anderson.

In 1996, Mitch got his break with an invitation to perform at the prestigious Just for Laughs Montreal International Comedy Festival. His performances secured him a deal with a studio and a spot on "The Late Show with David Letterman." Letterman enjoyed the set so much that he actually quoted one of Mitch's bits later in the show.

With the money from his development deal, Mitch wrote, directed and stars in his own independent feature called "Los Enchiladas!" which premiered at Sundance. His film is a comedy about a drifter who gets a job at a Mexican chain restaurant in middle America, the relationships between the restaurant employees, and the deterioration of the business' hierarchy over a 24-hour period. While editing the film in Seattle, Mitch entered the 1997 Seattle Comedy Competition and won the grand prize of three thousand dollars. He immediately handed the check over to his editor and finished the film.

On February 5, 1999 Mitch made his fifth appearance on "The Late Night Show with David Letterman." Last July he was invited to return to the comedy festival "Just for Laughs" where he stole the attention of the industry, audiences, and press alike. His stand-out performances secured a development deal with FOX to create his own sitcom and prompted TIME magazine to include him as one of the next generation of comedy stars and The Hollywood Reporter to headline their review of the Festival, "Laughs are Loudest for Hedberg." Mitch also recently completed a reality show pilot for MTV.

Mitch passed away in March, 2005.

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

His landlord would drive him up and down the coast from club to club in his pick-up truck where Mitch would lie down in the back to avoid any of the negative conversations his landlord would try to have with him.

Now THAT is beautiful.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw that probably about the same time Huck did. Shit.

Saw him in Baltimore over a year ago. Good times.

TOMBOT, Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel kind of insanely bad about this.

TOMBOT, Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd never seen him live, but voraciously hunted down every clip I could find of him, and, I know this was his stage-persona, but there was always such a zen-like serenity about him that I never would have pegged him for a heroin user.

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

:(

Elliot (Elliot), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

if this is true, and i really dont think it is, i might just go all Elvis-crazy and deny the truth for the rest of my life, as im sure i will see him everywhere i find something absurdly funny.

a part of me just wants to scream "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" right now.

that and, uh, RIP Terri Schiavo. Not as funny, but dead nonetheless...

JD from CDepot, Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Did his movie actually get released?

Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

this is sad. and surprising.

Maria (Maria), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

This. Sucks. RIP Mitch.

retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)


you know, i saw him not two weeks ago, he played a show on campus here in college park MD. i have to say the show wasnt that funny, but it wasnt mitch's fault. he tried to do new matierial that was only so-so, so all the assholes that go to my school started shouting things like "koala" and "Dr. Acula". Mitch actually got mad/real with the audience and said: fine, ill tell the old jokes, but you wont laugh, youll just clap.

i felt so bad for him.

JD from CDepot, Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. You would never seen an "Escalator temporarily out of order" sign, just "Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience."

polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

RIP

Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

what's confusing about this is he was touring with his wife. anybody hear if she's okay too? this is shitty.

hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

His website has shut down.

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/entertainment/

charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

sad but true. RIP you funny mother fucker. you will be missed.

threedogg, Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.

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

 I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut.  To some skeptical friend, Don't even act like I didn't buy a doughnut, I've got the documentation right here... It's in my file at home. ...Under "D".

People teach their dogs to sit, it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The donut bit. Man.

Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 31 March 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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

Matt Chesnut (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Dogs are forever in the push-up position.

My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Celebrity Theater's "in the round" setting provided an unusual setting for a pairing of comedy performances last night, and the slowly spinning stage providing material for everyone involved. After an amusing, if a tad long set by music-comedian Stephen Lynch, whose song-based humor often resembled that of Jack Black's Tenacious D (if less metal-based,) and hilarious emcee duties handled by previously unknown to me comedian Al Madrigal, expectations were high for the big draw, Mitch Hedberg. Expectations, it turns out, were about to be let down.

Hedberg, for those who don't know him, has made a name for himself based more on his addled delivery of odd observations. The observations, in and of themselves, are not so laugh-out-loud funny, the humor is almost entirely in the stunted, slow-paced delivery and his constant over-explanation. A classic bit goes "My apartment is infested with koala bears. It was the cutest infestation ever. When I turn on the light, they scatter, but I do not want them to. Don't run away. I want to hold you . . . and feed you a leaf." It's not so funny to read it - but to hear it, it's hilarious, and his own half-laughter following his jokes may technically be bad "comedy form" but he seems so amused at what comes out of his mouth you can't help but laugh along with him.

Hedberg toook to the stage clutching two red cups, the kind of red cups everyone knows are usually filled with the hard stuff, setting them down on a stool in the center of the stage. Starting into his routine, it was clear something was wrong. I figured he must have had a little too much of something backstage, and his continued and frequent sampling from the two cups only added to the problem. As time wore on, things got worse. Much worse.

After a short while, he began stumbling about the stage, stupefied, mumbling, delivering punchlines before the body of the joke, laughing for no reason, and at several points throughout the show, simply laid down in the center of the stage. Dangling the microphone over his mouth, he would giggle and sigh, commenting regularly that he couldn't remember his jokes. The audience egged him on, cheering, clapping, and laughing, tossing suggested bits into the air that he would half-heartedly attempt, then give up in more giggles. At several points I was certain he was on the verge of passing out as the microphone slipped out of his hand to clonk on the stage or on his face, but giggles would emerge again. When he did manage to stand, he approached an older woman at the side of the stage who encourage him to have a seat with her. The security guards approached to ward her off, but Hedberg stumbled off the stage to take a seat, and the woman proceeded to fetishize him, rubbing his hair, touching his clothes, and eventually the two engaged in a sickening makeout session that had the audience groaning and yelling.

Back on stage, Hedberg collapsed to the floor again in a completely incoherent mess. For an achingly long time he simply laughed, attempting to talk and slipping right back into laughter. Commenting that he liked drugs, especiallyXanax, but he was happy with anything, several small pills found their way to the stage, at least one of which he swallowed after mumbling "What is this?" He sat back down on the stage and became the picture of a drunken, washed up loser. Seats quickly began emptying, entire rows vacant, and at one point a man approached the stage with a card. Stumbling to him to retrieve the card, Hedberg read the contents aloud. "'Jesus loves you.' Not tonight, man, not after tonight."

Mumbling that the Celebrity Theater owner was going to be mad in light of a previous incoherent Tempe Improv show, he questioned his performance, lamenting it, repeatedly mumbling that he wanted to "end strong" - Stephen Lynch had started strong, he stated, and Lynch ended strong, and he wanted to not disappoint the fans. He was wrong on all counts, unfortunately. At best he could only end as weakly as he began, but even with shouted lines of bits from audience members he was unable to complete most of his jokes. Upon tossing off a well-worn bit, he simply threw his hands in the air in mock victory, and Al Madrigal jumped in to save the show's end.

This is Hedberg's peak. He will never again be as popular as he is right now, and he's simply throwing it away on drug abuse that he puts on display for his fans. There was next to nothing humorous about his performance - if anything, most people stayed to see if he would make it through his entire act, or, like gawking at a gory accident, stayed to see the slowly unfolding disaster. Unfortunately, that's exactly what we unwittingly paid for.

cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

when (and where) is that from?

kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/24/131428.php

cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

So long Mitch, thanks for the laughs.

earlnash, Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

This really sucks. I was just telling my brother yesterday that we should go see him next time he comes to town. :(

"They should have a store called Apartment Depot. It would be single guys standing around saying 'I don't have to fix shit'"

tylero (tylero), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Well that totally sucks, yeah. RIP, man. Christ, he was good.

jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 1 April 2005 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"They say the recipe for Sprite is lemon and lime, but I tried to make it at home - there's more to it than that."

retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 1 April 2005 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

To one of the funniest guys that makes everyday stupid bullshit incredibly funny--Rest In Peace, man....you will be extremely missed....and i read he died of a heart attack...either way it sux.

Jess F, Friday, 1 April 2005 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, man, i could totally cry. this sucks.

Amanda D, Friday, 1 April 2005 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Bam. I guess this is the part of my life where people start dying that I've quoted.

Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 1 April 2005 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I did a set last night and I opened with Hedberg's bit about not being in the army, because to him, being at ease still felt pretty uptight. "I'm at ease, bro, because I'm not in the military."

Then I said that was from Mitch Hedberg, a hero of mine who just died from an apparant heroin overdose. "And now I'm gonna tell some jokes about drugs."

Huk-L, Friday, 1 April 2005 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice. I didn't know you do stand-up, Huk.

Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Neither did the audience last night.

Huk-L, Friday, 1 April 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

God this is terrible. He was one of my favorite comedians, easily. RIP man.

Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

This is sickening. He was so good in Home Movies, SO SO SO good.

David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

In some weird way, a little parft of me hopes he died of heroin and not of just a boring ol' heart attack. Is that fucked up, or what?

polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm, what a weird typo.

polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

All death is caused by "heart failure" and often the family requests that no other details be released, which is perfectly okay with me, unless it's an elected official. But Mitch's mother told a Minn. paper that he had heart condition, so who knows.

Huk-L, Friday, 1 April 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

at least we can joke about mitch and it's respectful.

hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

no one photoshopped mitch's head on top of a heroin needle yet, did they?

cutty (mcutt), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

respect the hstencil, cutty.

hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

xxxxxpost David. What part did he play on Home Movies?

Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

He was Mitch.

http://homemovies.toonzone.net/Yoko6.jpg

sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://homemovies.toonzone.net/MitchGeneric.jpg

Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

He made a million cameos. He played the cop sent to pick up coach mcguirk when he missed a court appointment, he played Mitch the 5th grader from the episode when Brendan got a girlfriend (same episode the russian kid pissed in McGuirks canteen), he played Dr. Fizzell and he did the funeral services in one episode

David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, OK, I guess I never realized that was him. What a fucking bummer.

Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i didn't like mitch for the longest time but then the night i was studying for my russian history midterm last year and we took a much-needed study break by listening to some mp3s from his live act, he suddenly "made sense" to me and i started to love him. RIP.

joseph (joseph), Sunday, 3 April 2005 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

This is one of the most devastating blows to the comedy scene since Chris Farley. I will miss them both terribly. Mitch had something special going for him, he was a signature act with a very bright future ahead of him. Mitch was my favorite comedian and will continue to be for a very long time. Reading the news, I wanted to die, just so Mitch could give the world more of his great jokes, knowing that nothing I ever do will amount to what he has done. Mitch has brightened people's days and made their life seem as funny as he saw it. May Mitch's memory and comedy spirit spread to every comedian. Because, now, we need a guy like Mitch.

Mitch Hedberg 1968-2005 R.I.P

"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later."

Nick Scott, Sunday, 3 April 2005 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 3 April 2005 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

What an awful week. My sister died of cancer on Tuesday. I couldn't believe it when I read Mitch died this week too, the day after my sister's death. While of course losing my sister is a much worse personal loss I am so saddened to hear that Mitch is gone. How horrible, so talented, so young. I was lucky enough to see him twice, most recently about 6 months ago in NYC. Funniest guy on the planet IMHO, what a shock. If it's drugs I can't say I will be surprised, but I am going to be SO pissed at him!

marilyn garfinkel, Sunday, 3 April 2005 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Mitch Quotes and Info:
http://www.thedotdotdot.com/humor/hedberg.html

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mitch_Hedberg

Marilyn Garfinkel, Sunday, 3 April 2005 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Marilyn, *really* sorry to hear about your sister. I hope you're OK.

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 4 April 2005 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.trigonalmayhem.com/notfunny.jpg

MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Monday, 4 April 2005 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

You should've used the same words with an image of the pope.

David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 4 April 2005 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Rickey,
That's so nice of you to have posted the message to me. I am lucky to have a terrific support system, so I'm doing OK. Even though it was expected it's a tremendous loss, we were very close.

I just can't believe how many people died this week--The Pope, Terry Schiavo, Johnny Cochran, Mitch--and my own personal loss of my sister.

Marilyn Garfinkel, Monday, 4 April 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...
A stop sign has colors -- green means go, yellow means wait, and red means stop. A banana has colors too but they're the opposite. Green means stop, yellow means go, and red means where'd you get that banana?

57 7th (calstars), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...
A waffle is a pancake with a syrup trap.

57 7th (calstars), Sunday, 9 October 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hedburgh.com/

mark p (Mark P), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

more specifically:

http://www.hedburgh.com/media.shtml

mark p (Mark P), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...
Report: Comedian Mitch Hedberg died accidentally of drug overdose
NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian Mitch Hedberg died accidentally in March of “multiple drug toxicity,” including cocaine and heroin, Spin magazine reports, citing reports filed by the New Jersey medical examiner’s office.
The medical examiner’s findings were filed in May, according to an article in the January issue of Spin about the convergence of comedy and rock ’n’ roll.
Hedberg, 37, died in a hotel room in Livingston, N.J., while on a club tour performing standup. The comedian, who was born with a heart defect, was initially believed to have died from heart failure.
He had struggled with drugs and alcohol, and took a hiatus from performing for several months after a May 2003 arrest in Austin, Texas, for felony possession of heroin.
In the Spin article, Maureen Taran, a comedy manager who knew Hedberg, is quoted as saying that life on the road is difficult for a struggling comedian.
“It’s a very lonely existence,” Taran says. “If you aren’t born with manic-depression, you will have it after being in this business.”
A hit on The Late Show With David Letterman, on which he appeared 10 times, and The Howard Stern Show, Hedberg once was dubbed “the next Seinfeld” by Time magazine. But TV-series fame eluded him because his unique style of mumbled one-liners didn’t lend itself to the sitcom format.
Born in St. Paul, Minn., Hedberg rose through the ranks at Minneapolis’ Acme Comedy Co. and caught his big break through a Comedy Central special. He had a role in the film Almost Famous — smoking fake pot with Peter Frampton — and appeared on Fox’s hit series That ’70s Show.
Hedberg had two popular comedy CDs, Strategic Grill Locations and Mitch All Together.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

the convergence of comedy and rock ’n’ roll.

B-b-but Mitch loved .38 Special!

Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Who doesn't?

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...
The memorial sandwich.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 March 2007 05:21 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

5 years already

StanM, Monday, 29 March 2010 18:51 (sixteen years ago)

was thinking about him yesterday when i was getting all wrapped up in my frustrations with this leaky bathroom faucet and imagining stepping foot into an Apartment Depot and wandering around with all the others who don't gotta fix shit

iiiijjjj, Monday, 29 March 2010 19:03 (sixteen years ago)

how does that picture show up w/ images off?

51ocki (k3vin k.), Monday, 29 March 2010 19:04 (sixteen years ago)

saved by the buoyancy of citrus

t(o_o)t (ENBB), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 02:34 (sixteen years ago)

Upthread, something almost spooky:

Does this mean Zach Galafanakis will be more popular now?

― mitch dub (ano ano), Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:16 AM (4 years ago)

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 02:41 (sixteen years ago)

Aziz Ansari pisses me off. His whole schtick is taken from Mitch...

calstars, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 02:46 (sixteen years ago)

seven months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPu8453j1m8

man, can't believe it's been so long

dayo, Monday, 15 November 2010 01:37 (fifteen years ago)

Aziz Ansari pisses me off. His whole schtick is taken from Mitch...

― calstars, Monday, March 29, 2010 10:46 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark

can't really stand that dude either but i have no idea where this comparison comes from.

deej otm (some dude), Monday, 15 November 2010 01:44 (fifteen years ago)

deej otm otm

ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 01:46 (fifteen years ago)

btw why is elvis costello hosting dave letterman

ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 01:47 (fifteen years ago)

dave will be back this week i think

overtheseas aeroplanes I have flown (k3vin k.), Monday, 15 November 2010 01:51 (fifteen years ago)

that one summer dave had a whole bunch of different random people doing guest host gigs. not sure if it was after his surgery or he just took some time off?

deej otm (some dude), Monday, 15 November 2010 02:06 (fifteen years ago)

is that what all people from Minnesota sound like?

make the Pagan Dad a Pagan Father. (Dr. Superman), Monday, 15 November 2010 02:32 (fifteen years ago)

u betcha

ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 02:36 (fifteen years ago)

Mitch woulda been good at Twitter.

make the Pagan Dad a Pagan Father. (Dr. Superman), Monday, 15 November 2010 02:40 (fifteen years ago)

finally, someone has put a name on the real tragedy here

deej otm (some dude), Monday, 15 November 2010 02:45 (fifteen years ago)

i follow some sort of fucking comedy twitter that often has hedberg jokes including a couple from that letterman clip

ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 02:45 (fifteen years ago)

love mitch, man...aziz ansari does not deserve to be mentioned in this thread

calstars, Monday, 15 November 2010 03:34 (fifteen years ago)

Barely a week goes by where I don't think of his donut shop receipt joke. "“I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, 'Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut, I've got the documentation right here... It's in my file at home. ...Under "D".'”

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 November 2010 03:41 (fifteen years ago)

supposedly after a Mitch bit one time, Letterman made reference to a gag he told later in the show. he never does that aparrantly and i've never seen him do that. anyone know what the line was? always wondered.

piscesx, Monday, 15 November 2010 06:09 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpPftnc-5eI

Cane it for the original white tees (admrl), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 05:52 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

Love this guy. I never was aware of him when he was alive, but I have been sort of obsessed with him recently.

The Merch Seat (admrl), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 21:12 (thirteen years ago)

Every time I go to Subway and they ask "what kind of bread?" I have to stop myself from saying, "banana!". And that's not even his Subway joke!!

Xerox of Fate, Thursday, 26 July 2012 01:21 (thirteen years ago)

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

(✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 26 July 2012 02:58 (thirteen years ago)

I was walking by a dry cleaner at 3 a.m., and it said "Sorry, we're closed." You don't have to be sorry. It's 3 a.m., and you're a dry cleaner. It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open.

(✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 26 July 2012 02:59 (thirteen years ago)

I got a question for ya, how do you feel about frilly toothpicks?

(✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 26 July 2012 03:03 (thirteen years ago)

i don't know how i feel about mitch hedberg in general but every time i see an escalator out of order sign his voice plays in my head

thomp, Thursday, 26 July 2012 03:05 (thirteen years ago)

My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana and I said no, but I want a regular banana later, so...yeah.

cwkiii, Thursday, 26 July 2012 03:43 (thirteen years ago)

I think the first joke I ever told my daughter was the "and if you ever see red bananas, WATCH OUT."

My "think of Mitch every time" moment is when I see a vending machine with more letters than the alphabet. HH

pplains, Thursday, 26 July 2012 04:09 (thirteen years ago)

"If you're in America and can convince someone that they're in Canada, you can get them to pay more for a magazine."

to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Thursday, 26 July 2012 04:19 (thirteen years ago)

she said "that'll be $1.75." i said "it's for a duck." she said "oh well then it's free." see, i was not aware of this. ducks eat for free at subway. had i known this, i would have ordered a much larger sandwich. give me the steak fajita sub! but don't bother ringing it up -- it's for a duck! there are six ducks outside, and they all want sun chips!

a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 26 July 2012 04:24 (thirteen years ago)

what does a sesame seed grow into? i don't know, we never give 'em a chance! what the fuck is a sesame?

cwkiii, Thursday, 26 July 2012 04:37 (thirteen years ago)

it's a STREET

it's a WAY TO OPEN SHIT

a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 26 July 2012 04:38 (thirteen years ago)

one more from me or i'll never stop:

i bought a smoke detector, but really it's just a 9 volt battery slowly draining.

"do you want to slowly get rid of your 9 volt batteries? THEN BUY THIS CIRCLE."

cwkiii, Thursday, 26 July 2012 04:38 (thirteen years ago)

Love this guy. I never was aware of him when he was alive, but I have been sort of obsessed with him recently.

Yeah, I only discovered his stuff last winter, and then spent about a week listening to everything I could find readily on Youtube. "'What do you think of frilly toothpicks?' 'I'M FOR 'EM!'"

*sad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Thursday, 26 July 2012 08:03 (thirteen years ago)

people on the 14th floor, you know what floor you're really on

jabba hands, Thursday, 26 July 2012 09:48 (thirteen years ago)

x-post :D yesssssssss

(✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 26 July 2012 10:45 (thirteen years ago)

I got a question for ya, how do you feel about frilly toothpicks?

i was dying at the sandwich bit: "pastrami sandwich. anything else? yeah, a loaf of bread and some other people"

diamonddave85, Thursday, 26 July 2012 14:38 (thirteen years ago)

seven months pass...

'i don't have a girlfriend, i just know a girl who would get really mad if she heard me say that.'

j., Saturday, 23 March 2013 08:13 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdjlSbWBzgc

the cinematography is endearingly amateur but there is lot of hedberisms in there , also a great use of a straw.

Sébastien, Saturday, 23 March 2013 15:54 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.vice.com/read/the-comedy-community-talks-about-the-legacy-of-mitch-hedberg

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 02:07 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

i think bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem.

flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 04:01 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sZY9dbkMaY

sleepingbag, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 04:22 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Celebrating the 5th year anniversary of you asking me this question

calstars, Saturday, 22 September 2018 18:27 (seven years ago)

We’ve got spaghetti. And blankets.

faculty w1fe (silby), Saturday, 22 September 2018 18:58 (seven years ago)

An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. You should never see an "Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order" sign, just "Escalator Temporarily Stairs - Sorry for the Convenience."

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 September 2018 19:53 (seven years ago)

i think about that every time i see an escalator out of order in my building

diamonddave85​​ (diamonddave85), Saturday, 22 September 2018 19:57 (seven years ago)

How can we eat at a time like this?

MaresNest, Saturday, 22 September 2018 20:37 (seven years ago)

People are missing !

calstars, Saturday, 22 September 2018 21:08 (seven years ago)

"I want to hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations I've traveled to, but first I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map, so it won't fall down."

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 22 September 2018 22:41 (seven years ago)

Goddamn he was good

flappy bird, Saturday, 22 September 2018 22:56 (seven years ago)

one time he went to a party of the brother of a good friend of mine, got really fucked up and accidentally knocked the AC out of the window, but showed up first thing in the morning with a new one

global tetrahedron, Saturday, 22 September 2018 23:04 (seven years ago)

Apex of menschiness

faculty w1fe (silby), Sunday, 23 September 2018 02:09 (seven years ago)

<3

wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Sunday, 23 September 2018 03:43 (seven years ago)

think about tus guy when i see ducks.

(usually I don't have bread)

Ludo, Sunday, 23 September 2018 06:47 (seven years ago)

seven years pass...

"When I was little, I used to lie in my twin bed and wonder where my brother was."

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 October 2025 19:03 (eight months ago)


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