Sail on Mitch Hedberg...

[parrothead338]

RIP Mitch Hedberg
1968-2005


Some of you may not know who he is but he was an amazing comedian. Personally he was my favorite comedian and his jokes were so different and funny. I saw him for the first time on Conan and was hooked. I am sort of schocked right now. I always wanted to see him perform

His quick one-liners that had no build up and didn't need much thinking made me laugh every time. He was so original and he will be missed. Here are some of my favorites.

'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 flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.'

I would imagine if you understood Morse Code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy."

"I like rice. Rice is great if your hungry and want 2000 of something."

"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it."

"I lke refried beans. I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time."

My friend said to me "You know what I like? Mashed poatoes," I was like, Dude, you gotta give me time to guess. If your ging to quiz me, you must put a pause in there

Sail on Mitch

[citcat]

OH NO, NO.....what the heck happened to him? He was so funny, every once in a while, I'd go to his web site and download some video of him and his jokes. I was hoping someday to see him in person. I loved his joke about getting a receipt when you bought a doughnut. He can't be dead, he was too young.

[parrothead338]

He was way too young. It get sadder the more I think about it and read about him. This article has a link in it to a review of one of his shows where he got so drugged up he couldn't even finish his show. Sounds like he had a big drug problem. This really sucks

Apparently it hasnt gone to the big news networks because there is a huge conspiracy theory that it is a huge APril Fools joke but it does look like the read deal.

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/03/31/133404.php

[rednekkPH]

"I like rice. Rice is great if your hungry and want 2000 of something."

I've never heard of the guy, but that's funny!

[Big Red Parrothead]

What's sad is that, even though I didn't know his name, I knew instantly who you were talking about when I read the jokes. I'd seen him on Comedy Central a couple of times and he really was hilarious.

[citcat]

He was on that "70's show" working at a hamburger place:
Mitch: I did not lose a leg in Vietnam to serve hamburgers.
Kelso: You have both your legs.
Mitch: That's what I said, I DID NOT lose a leg in Vietnam.

Other jokes:
I need to go to the Apartment Depot. That's just a bunch of people standing around saying, "We ain't going to fix sh*t!"

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

I bought a donut, and the guy gave me a receipt for the donut. We do not need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't even imagine a scenario
where I'd need proof of my purchase of a donut.

And for us parrotheads:
I got a parrot that talked, but it didn't say "I'm hungry.", so it died.

[Cousin Baxter]

Heard it early this morning on Stern. Been looking all morning for something on the web but just found articles that were written just a couple of days ago about him touring and doing interviews and such. Now it's finally up on the news boards. He was on Stern 2 weeks ago.

Sail on Mitch