Talk:Mitch Hedberg/Archive 2

Style
I edited a couple of sentences here. Is him toying with the audience a provable statement, or does it not need proving? The disclaimers are certainly not about letting an audience know he shared their opinion, he uses it when jokes don't work. Much of his material could be described as dumb, and he uses it on different jokes depending on reaction. "That jokes better than you acted", while the funniest self-aware mitch joke, is one I've only heard once from several recordings. "That joke's dumb" is much more frequent on the available recordings, but I never saw him live, so go ahead and change it if you did and disagree. Isn't it almost his catchphrase though? I'd love to put "that jokes dumb. If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way" and it seems relevant, but given that this talk page is full of complaints about quotes I erred on the s of c. This whole page needs work though, I might do it one day. 2001:630:E4:42FD:0:0:6:5F4C (talk) 02:02, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Shmuel Breban
I've come across this name as one of the comedian who has been influenced by Mitch Hedberg's career in the info-box. Given that there are less than a dozen people listed, you would think that each and every one of them would have some amount of notoriety. I'm a big comedy fan, especially of one-liners, so I was surprised to come across a name that I didn't recognize on this list. I google searched this fellow, and it seems that, not only has he never appeared in a special or late-night show, it's unclear whether or not he has performed at anything more than open mics around NYC. I'm guessing that either he or his friends have been trying to get his name out there by vandalizing Wikipedia pages. He has an entire page, which should probably be deleted, but I'm new to all of this and I'm too lazy to figure that out. I'll be deleting him from this page though. (Jcfargond (talk) 21:06, 8 April 2014 (UTC))

Paraprosdokians
Um... why not just say "punch lines"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.249 (talk) 01:45, 14 January 2017 (UTC) but you are an IP address so you won't even see this Dave Rave (talk) 22:03, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
 * because a punch line is an ending whereas this 'is surprising or unexpected' and off topic or sidetracked or completely unexpected

Penthouse interview
Re this source addition by Dave Rave - thanks for the source, Dave, as I failed to find one. The best source would be that issue of Penthouse, but I don't seem to have that one any more, haha. Two questions spring to mind - 1. How do we know Matthew Reine didn't just copy from here? and 2. Reine says: "In a surreal moment of foreshadowing, Mitch was interviewed by Penthouse in 2001 and after being asked how he’d like to die, he replied “First I’d like to become famous then overdose”. Which is different to what's quoted here? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:08, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * there is the circular problem, but someone musta started it for a reason, the issue is available on amazon, there's another link, and paraphrase. Dave Rave (talk) 00:00, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
 * yep yep, which came first, the quote or the cite, i've emailed one of the ebay sellers, see if i can get some pics of the article. Dave Rave (talk) 04:49, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * got jpgs of the pages, def in the article. Will rework the ref later. Dave Rave (talk) 08:05, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

The link to his official website no longer works.
The domain has been taken over by someone else. 67.86.20.216 (talk) 22:46, 22 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Yes. That's too bads. I have removed it from the "External links" section. There are plenty of video clips at YouTube, but they all look like they might be copyvios. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:15, 22 March 2018 (UTC)


 * But the archive.org version still works, so User:Dave Rave has restored it into the the infoxbox. Thanks, Dave. Martinevans123 (talk) 19:37, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

“Career” section – I’m confused
In the career section it says “He soon appeared on MTV's "Comikaze", followed by a 1996 appearance on "Late Night with David Letterman" (1982) which brought him his big break.”

What does the 1982 refer to? I don’t understand.189.178.66.170 (talk) 19:57, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
 * It seems this section was partially copied from another location, and the dates in parenthesis are the original dates for the show. I am removing these references, although if the section is copied it will need to be rewritten. Bakkster Man (talk) 20:16, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

what was the big break? kind of weird to leave out the main point. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.109.191.37 (talk) 18:16, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

stage fright
According to his widow, Lynn Shawcroft, and one of his friends, Mike Birbiglia, Mitch did NOT have stage fright. (reference - episode 67 of Mike Birbiglia's podcast Working It Out). In addition, I do not see any mention of stage fright in the article referenced. 146.113.128.169 (talk) 14:49, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Is it OK if I edit the paragraph to correct it? Sarahnach (talk) 15:15, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Please do correct this. TDCornwell (talk) 14:50, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

See topic "Stage fright" for follow-up conversation. Sarahnach (talk) 15:13, 19 March 2022 (UTC)