“This shirt is dry-clean only, which means it’s dirty”
Mitch Hedberg. Photo: YouTube Mitch Hedberg would’ve been the greatest tweeter of all time. His musings — the foggy ramblings of a campfire acid trip, the lizard-brain reflections during a groggy shower, the banal grievances and humiliations of civilian life — were perfectly tuned to the digital age. Hedberg’s rough drafts were his art; he never feared the stupidity of a bit, and he trusted that the audience in front of him had the same twisted inner monologue rattling around their own skulls.
“You can’t please all the people all the time, and last night, all those people were at my show.” Hedberg’s brand of humor wasn’t for everyone. Part of the fun was watching how he’d bask in the strange looks and confused, hair-ruffling anxiety that would occasionally meet him onstage. This line is my favorite example of that.
“This CD is going to be in stores. The only way I could get my old CD in a store is if I would take one in and leave it.” To Mitch’s posthumous relief, nobody has any CDs in stores in 2020. “I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.” Mitch was always so open about his drug problems, which makes revisiting his work a strangely melancholy experience. Especially when the jokes are as good as this one.
“Whenever I walk, people try to hand me out flyers. When someone tries to hand me a flyer it’s kinda like they’re saying, ‘Here, you throw this away.’” This is the joke that made my dad a diehard Mitch Hedberg fan. The one thing I can count on when the family is back together is him muttering, “Here, you throw this away” when a canvasser steps in his path.
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