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Topic: Mitch Hedberg, Dead at 37 (Read 3096 times)
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Toast
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Hedberg was a master of the sharp-as-glass-shards one-liner ("Rice is great when you're hungry and want 2,000 of something"; "I would imagine if you understood Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy"; "When someone hands you a flier, it's like they're saying, 'Here, you throw this away.' ") Heh. |
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Funny guy. I always thought of him as some kind of stoner rock version of Steven Wright. I didn't quite warm up to him at first though. I think it was an episode of Dr. Katz that finally got me to pay attention.
He was one of the only newer comedians that could make me laugh out loud while I was just sitting home alone watching the TV (Does that make sense?....I mean, most comedians only a get a laugh out of me when I'm with other people who are laughing. It's a contagious thing. If a comic gets me to start cracking up when I'm just by myself, then I know he's really funny).
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« Last Edit: March 31, 2005, 10:17:43 PM by Stray »
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Samprimary
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This is tragic, to me. I have his first and second CD's. I thought of him highly as a comic, and never laughed harder for any other comic.
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HaemishM
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Damn. I loved this guy. One of my favorite bits paraphrased below: I wrote a movie script, and showed it to a guy who reads scripts. He said he liked it, but I needed to rewrite it. I said, "Dude, how about I make you a copy?" |
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Llava
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I don't know, I just heard about it today... and it is April 1st. His site didn't have anything this morning, but now it has a message about his death dated for today.
Comedycentral.com also has a note about it. I don't know if it's true or not, yet. If it's a joke, it's a bad one and in poor taste. If it's true, damn that sucks. Mitch was hilarious.
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Apparently, it's true.
Shit.
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« Last Edit: April 01, 2005, 02:29:15 PM by Llava »
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That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. -Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
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Sky
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That really blows. I think he was the funniest newer standup comedian I've seen in ages. Great, concise humor, and phenomenal delivery.
Shit, why can't guys like Rumsfeld and Ashcroft die instead of guys like Mitch. There's your proof god doesn't exist ;)
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schild
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Shit, why can't guys like Rumsfeld and Ashcroft die instead of guys like Mitch. There's your proof god doesn't exist ;)
If Rumsfeld and Ashcroft did the drugs Hedberg did, there's no doubt they'd be dead also. And you wouldn't even know their names. But I agree. Hedberg hadn't jumped the shark yet, which makes it a whole mess more upsetting. |
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Samprimary
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According to Mitch's mom, he was born with a heart condition that he was often worried about. He may have known he had a chance of dropping dead young.
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Llava
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March 31th, 2005
Mitch Hedberg died on Wednesday.
I don't know how. It doesn't matter.
Andy Andrist does a bit about how people will always try to blame you for your death. Andy says he wants to be mauled to death by a bear so no one will say it's his own fault.
Mitch wasn't mauled by a bear. But it doesn't matter.
Nobody has asked me how Mitch lived. And Mitch lived like a motherfucker. More than most any of us will live. That isn't sad or tragic.
Mitch was the kind of comic that was funny even when nobody was looking. It wasn't just for the stage, the ego or the random congratulations. He was funny when he was alone.
And now the deluge of people who will try to fault him for his demise, as though if he'd spent his days on a treadmill, logging his mileage for tax purposes and avoiding red meat he would have been the same comic that you all loved. Everything Mitch did made Mitch who he was. I loved Mitch for all of it.
I don't know how Mitch died. I know how Mitch lived and he lived brilliantly and by his own rules. The number of years next to his name is trivia. The contents of those years is inspiration.
Go out today and make someone very, very happy.
-From Doug Stanhope's site. I thought it was nice.
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That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. -Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
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Sky
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Wow, Stanhope just moved up one notch from creepy lecher to just lecher. Good for him.
And he's quite right. Jimi Hendrix only recorded for four years.
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