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The wasted life and tragic death of Mitch Hedberg, who died five years ago this week. See Mitch at his best here.
April 8th, 2010.
The wasted life and tragic death of Mitch Hedberg, who died five years ago this week. See Mitch at his best here.
April 8th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Yeah RIP. I only spent an evening listening to this dude in my mate’s kitchen. I was trying to cook dinner but kept stopping prepping the grub cos i was in such a physical jock laughing. What delivery.
April 8th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
@ Darragh – You can almost see why he was terrified of getting straight – his being fucked up was half his shtick. But as someone says towards the end there, a comedy act is not worth dying for.
April 9th, 2010 at 10:36 am
I don’t know if Dean Martin was ever an alcoholic. But by all he spent most of his later career successfully pretending to be one.
April 9th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Well yeah, I suppose we might be underestimating heroin addiction here. Incidentally, this is the Letterman appearance referred to in the documentary…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2491LucLa1g&feature=related