Posted on 03/31/2005 11:38:25 AM PST by Constitution Day
Judging from what I've read on other sites, it was probably drugs.
I'm not surprised, but I did like his stuff.
Who?
He was very funny. RIP Mitch.
Read the article and find out.
Thanks for bumping my thread, though.
Oh, man. I liked this guy. I have his very last CD and stadup DVD. :(
From Comedy Central
http://www.comedycentral.com/standup/central/detail.jhtml?p=/comedians/h/mitch_hedberg.xml
Mitch Hedberg
BIO
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.
I had a stick of Carefree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
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I loved his broken escalator line.
RIP
One of his jokes was something like:
This shirt has a tag that says "Dry Clean Only"... that means it's dirty.
"I was going to get my teeth whitened, but I said screw that, I'll just get a tan instead."
I loved his broken escalator line.
Well..................
"Escalators can never break. They just become stairs."
I love escalators.
They can never break.
They just become stairs.
Wow, I just moved his DVD up toward the top of my Netflix list yesterday. Man, that is sad. He also did great voice work in an episode or two of "Home Movies" and the sole episode of "Saddle Rash" (along with Waylon Jennings) that aired on the Cartoon Channel's Adult Swim. He had the ability to be funny without resorting to low or vulgar humor.
Really sad. This guy was tremendously funny. I always imagined him in front of a bunch of beatniks in a 1950s-era coffee house.
Never heard of him until today.
That was one of the top reasons I liked him.
His style was also very deadpan, similar to Steven Wright.
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