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{{quote|''I'm tired of following my dreams! I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.''|Mitch Hedberg}}

Hedberg was an admitted drug user, and occasionally made jokes about his drug use in his act. These jokes became [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|Funny Aneurysm Moments]] when Hedberg [[Author Existence Failure|died in 2005]], supposedly by overdosing on heroin and cocaine. What makes it sadder is that this was before doing his first HBO special.

 

* ''Strategic Grill Locations'' (1999)

* ''Mitch All Together'' (2003)

* ''Do You Believe in Gosh?'' (recorded in 2005, released posthumously in 2008)

 

* [[Annoying Laugh]]: During one performance, Mitch singles out an audience member with a distinctive laugh.

* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]]: Mitch thinks the reason photographs of Bigfoot are always blurry is because Bigfoot IS blurry.

* [[Calling Shotgun]]: "Last time I called shotgun we'd rented a limo, so I fucked up."

* [[Can't You Read the Sign?]]: This is his response when a child tells him a [[Knock-Knock Joke]] while Mitch is wearing a Do Not Disturb sign.

* [[Cordon Bleugh Chef]]: Banana bread pastrami cottage cheese sandwich

* [[Dagwood Sandwich]]: He sees sandwiches from New York delis as this.

* [[Everything's Worse with Bears]]: Mitch feels that Smokey the Bear should not be the forest fire prevention mascot because bears are too scary. He prefers <s>a fake character he made up</s> England's mascot Smacky the Frog.

** He and some friends were dropping acid in the woods to avoid the cops, but ran into a bear, "[[Understatement|which was even more of a buzzkill]]." A friend remarked "Smokey is ''way'' more intense in person."

* [[Fridge Brilliance]]

* [[Fridge Logic]]: Invoked in several of his routines. A lot of his humor relied on pointing it out.

 

 

 

* [[I Was Told There Would Be Cake]]: "Don’t bring the cake-eater over here anymore. He smells like flour. Did you notice how his eyes widened when he found out your birthday was fast approaching?"

* [[Left It In]]: On one CD, after a particular joke falls flat, he jokes about adding the sound of audience laughter to compensate.

* [[Limited Social Circle]]: "I don't have a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know all the time. Then if someone needs to get in touch with me, they just say 'Mitch!', and I say 'What?' and turn my head slightly."

* [[Not Available in Stores]]: Originally, his first CD. Unless he brought it in the store and left it there.

* [[One Steve Limit]] / [[Psmith Psyndrome]]: Averted. Mitch Hedberg had two separate relationships with a girl named Lynn. Well, technically, one Lyn and one Lynn.

* [[Overly Long Gag]]: "I was at a restaurant, I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me cause she said, 'how would you like your eggs?' So I tried to answer her anyhow. I said, 'Incubated.'" ([[Beat]]) " 'And then raised. And then beheaded. And then plucked. And then cut up. And then put onto a grill. And then put onto a bun. Damn, [[Lampshade Hanging|it's gonna take a while]].' " ([[Beat]]) "[[Brick Joke|Scrambled]]."

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: If a joke didn't work, Mitch was always the first person to point it out. For instance, after one joke which didn't make any sense, he had barely finished telling the joke when he said "All right, that joke was ridiculous!"

** Subverted on one occasion when the audience underreacted to a joke Mitch was actually fond of. "That joke was better than you people are giving it credit for."

* [[So Unfunny It's Funny]]: Mitch was a notoriously casual performer, mixing in half-finished and unfunny jokes right beside legitimately brilliant and hilarious one-liners. The juxtaposition made the bad ones ''even funnier''.

* [[Stoners Are Funny]]

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Played with when discussing playing golf, and hit a guy with a drive. "You're supposed to yell out 'Fore!', but I was too busy mumbling, 'There ain't no way that's gonna hit him...'"

*** "Hi, what's your name?" "Bob." "Get the ''fuck'' away!"

* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]

''Well, it'' inspired ''me to write a story about a gorilla.'' }}

* [[Verbal Tic]]: in his first CD, he had a tendency to say "Alright..." after jokes. He didn't do it as much in later shows.

** It did carry over a bit when he did smaller gigs. Heck, even his wife had the tic when she headlined for him.

* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]:

* [[X Meets Y]]: Foosball: soccer meets shish kabobs.

 

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