You’ve gotta love a comedian whose every line is often a direct punch line. Minnesota native and comedic genius Mitch Hedberg rose to fame after moving to Seattle, where he worked hard to overcome an intense case of stage fright (he often performed with his eyes closed). My favorite things about Hedberg are his a) uncanny love for jack and coke, b) objectively random observations stemming from everyday thoughts (”dogs are forever in a push- up position”) and c) the fact that he used paraprosdokian; a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first part (according to Wikipedia). For example, “where there’s a will, I want to be in it.” Hedberg died from a drug overdose in March 2005. Someone should have seen it coming when Hedberg said, “I used to do drugs…I still do–but I used to, too.”
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