Wanted to hip you to an article written by friend of The Comedy Nerds, past podcast guest and extreme comedy nerd Mike Blejer for Punchline Magazine. It’s got it all: Funny jokes. Awesome comedy analysis. Math equations!
To this day, Mitch Hedberg is one of the most imitated comedians around. If you’ve been to more than one open mic you’ve provably seen a comic copying his style of accented, percussive speaking; sometimes good, usually terrible. I know that for my part I’ve heard a lot of comics telling bizarre one-liners they must have thought sounded Hedbergian.
But what is usually missing is the strong underlying logic that Mitch employed when constructing his jokes. And while he certainly made it seem natural and off the cuff, almost all of Mitch’s jokes were founded on a solid logical foundation.
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Just for the record, my initial title for the piece was “Giving Good Hedberg” but for some reason they didn’t want to go with that…