Mitch Hedberg 1
 

This guy makes me laugh out loud when I read his jokes.
Here's one, if you like it, I'll post more;
“I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut. I don’t need a receipt for the doughnut, I’ll just 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 in which I would need to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend? ‘Don’t even act like I didn’t buy a doughnut, I’ve got the documentation right here. Oh wait, it’s back home in the file . . . under ‘D’, for doughnut.’”

:lol: I love Mitch Hedberg. "I have noticed that a duck's opinion of me is greatly influenced by whether or not I have bread."

i like toast.

Much of the humor with Mitch really does lie in his delivery. Reading some of these, its like its humorous but I'm not laughing out loud, but when you hear him say the bit your rolling on the floor.

*R.I.P.*

“An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You would never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.”

Best bit ever!

So glad I got to see him live.

"I had my hair highlighted because I thought some strands were more important than others. This one you better remember, this one you can ignore. This one's gonna be on the fucking test!"

That's an excellent point... his delivery was what really made the jokes.

My favorite Mitch Hedberg line - I dont have a microwave oven, i have a clock that occasionally cooks shit. Dude was a genius.

Yeah, absolutely true, but at the same time his delivery was so awkward and stilted... Almost like he was reading the jokes from a page. It's weird that such a disaffected manner would bring already-good material to life the way it did. But it DID. I can't even READ his material without hearing his voice in my head.

Mitch is definitely among my top three favorite dead comics. It's good company--he's up there with Carlin and Hicks.

He was. At least when I saw him live, he had five or six sheets of college rule notebook paper that he read through...I think he would memorize a sets worth for his TV specials, but normally he was a joke reader. Didn't make him any less awesome. :thumbsup:

Well how about that. I never had the luck to see him live.

Saw Brian Regan a few months ago, though. He's fun in person--really plays with the audience.

Same here, as soon I read these I could imagine him telling the jokes on one of his specials.

He was very funny, I'm sorry to hear he has passed.

No one can properly do a Mitch Hedberg routine. You just have to know how he talks and, he's the only one who could pull it off.

"Never play tennis against a wall, they're relentless."

It's true. I can usually get my fiancee to laugh at jokes. When I try Mitch's, it never works.:no:

To Magpie's eternal embarrassment, every time I order a club sandwich in a restaurant I exclaim 'and I'm not even a member!'

Even occasionally in his recorded shows, he had notes with him. It's been a while since I've seen one, but I recall that much.

I've been known to order a Club Sandwich SO I can make that joke.

"And in the middle, we will dump chips."

"Or potato salad...." "I'm good with it!"

"I love cinnamon buns, but I don't always have time to bake a pan. That's why I wish they made a cinnamon buns scented incense. So that I can just light a stick, and have my roommates wake up with false hopes."

What is your position on little frilly toothpicks?

I'm FOR 'EM!

Well, this club is formed.

Guess now you can't say your one liner anymore! hehe

I miss him.

"I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones."

Me, too.