R.I.P. Mitch Hedberg
 

For those of you that don't know Mitch Hedberg. A comedian out of St Paul Minnesota, died last night from a heart attack. For those of you familiar with his work I know that you stand with me in saying that he was a ingeniously funny man, and that he will be sorely missed by the comedic world and the population in general. I felt like I had to post something and this seemed like the place to do it at the time. So feel free to add your two cents in if you want.

R.I.P. Mitch, you will be missed.

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saw him often on the comedy channel.

cant remember when I laughted so hard.

Sad day for us all.

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If he is dead then man he will be missed...hopefully maybe an early april fool's joke? please...

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If I remember right, one of his jokes was:

I'd prefer not to die on March 31. I don't want everyone to assume I was merely early for a joke.

...so I'm not sure what to think.

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Here's the article they had on VH1.com. So if this is a joke he's going all out. I really don't think so though. A loss to the whole world.


Mitch's Obituary On VH1.com

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none of the major news outlets are reporting his death

nothing on AP, ruters, yahoo news....


interesting? trying to top Andy Kaufman maybe?

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It's on Comedy Central's Website, Google News, his hometown paper, and his website is down. So I don't know what to believe

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Websites mainly down due to traffic overload trying to see if he is truly dead i think.

Personally, I'm going to be praying hard that this is a big joke, Mitch was my favorite comedian, it floored me earlier today when i found out about this.

According to people on Fark, comedy clubs where he was having shows have started to refund the tickets.

Truly a sad day for comedy.
"I had my heart set on Quadruple Tree....We were almost there!"

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The story has been picked up on the news wires, and is pretty much out there.

I'm thinking its not a joke.

-Andy A.

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He had a very unique style of comedy that only belonged to him. This is a terrible day for the stand up comic world. :(

RIP Mitch

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I was just on his site. It says it was updated 3/31/05, and no word on his death. It also has his tour dates still posted. I don't know what to think

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I am very saddened by this news. I first read this thread last night before i went to bed. I ran into the living room and told my roommate and one of my best friends. We are all big Mitch fans, and we just kinda sat there and were like 'uhh this sucks'.

But now when i just went to his website. It was updated this morning with this:
Last Update
04.01.2005
This site is experiencing massive amounts of traffic. The site may be temporarily suspended again. Be patient and realize that I am working on keeping this site up. ~chaille

Weird, update it at 4.01 and not even mention this. Then again if it was a prank, he would definately have something posted on his website, atleast i would. Who knows. Its sad though. He was a very very funny man.


Edit:
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twinci...s/11279978.htm
This article has the scheduled viewing and some quotes from his mother. So i guesse it is true, this sucks.

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I'm glad to say that i was able to see one of his one of his last shows, at Caroline's in NYC a few weeks back. I'm glad i got this opportunity to see him before it was to late, it was one of the greatest shows iv ever been to. despite the sadness of this news I'm sure he would want us to laugh in his memory so in dedication to him iv been playing his CD on repeat for the last few hours.

I'm still hoping that this is one elaborate April fools joke, but the New York Times reported it so it might not be.

"This place Caroline's isn't spelled with an apostrophe S. that means it isn't hers."

RIP Mitch

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I too saw him last year, one of the best comedians ever. I'll miss him

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I thought this was an April Fool's joke, too but it doesn't seem like it. He was my favorite comedian ever! "My friend offered me a frozen banana, but I wanted a regular one later..so..yeah.."

-Naomi

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yeah we all were hoping it was that.

iv got a proposal, in memory of Mitch we should fill this thread with all of our favorite Mitch lines.

"I've got an ant farm. them fellas don't farm S**t. i said come on, how abouts some celery, you guys stink. Plus if i cut your legs off you look like little black snowmen."

P.S you should all buy the CD "Mitch all together" its got the stuff they cut out of the comedy central special, which is even better then what they did show.

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I totally agree with making this a "memorium" thread so to speak.

Here's a couple of my favorites

You will never see an "out of order" sign on an escalator. Cause an escalator can never be broken, they can only be stairs. It'll never be Escalator temporarily broken, it'll be Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convience.

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

I think vending machines make snacks taste better because stuff tastes better when it falls. That's why often time when I buy a candy bar in a store I drop it so it achieves its maximum flavor potential.

Those are only a few but it was so hard to whittle down the list.

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PS - what you get when you remove Q and R from the alphabet

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"I Can't Tell you where I'm staying at, but there are two trees involved."
"They wanted to name there hotel something trees, so they had a meeting....it was quite short "Tree" "No" "Double Tree" "Hell Yea", i had my heart set on Quadruple tree, WE were almost there!"

"My Hotel doesn't have a 13th floor due to superstition, but people on the 14th floor, you know what floor your really on, If you jump out your window, you will die earlier!"

"If 13 is unlucky than 12 and 14 are guilty by association, "12 i saw you with 13" "Nope i was with 11, you talk to 14 about that $@#$@#$@#$@#" " What do you have to say 14?" "Me divided by 2 is 7...alright i was with 13"

"If 13 is unlucky than so should the letter B, since it looks like a squished together 13, "Whats your name man?" "Bob" "GET THE $@#$@#$@#$@# AWAY!"

RIP Funny man, RIP

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" i was at a vending machine and the candy bar i wanted was labeled HH, so i went over to the side and hit the H button twice. F***ing potato chips fell down. then i realized that there was an HH button. I was not aware of that, I never learned my AA BB CCs damnet damnet"

" i remixed the remix. it was back to normal"

" I used to do a lot of drugs. I still do but i used to too"

" i like the fed-ex guy cause hes a drug dealer and he don't even know it. plus hes always on time"