Plus, for whatever reason, his Strategic Grill Locations finds him accompanied by jazz bassist almost continually through the show. The guy's weird. Best bet: buy Mitch All Together because it has both a CD of one performance and a DVD featuring his full, uncensored Comedy Central performance, which was condensed and edited for air (the edited episode is also included, plus a short piece for the channel. Half of the fun of his uncensored performance is watching him struggle for some minutes before the obviously uninitiated audience begins to pick up on his humor. Some might not buy the schtick, but seeing him deliver it really makes it work - and then the audio-only pieces will entertain you. Once you've seen Hedberg's delivery, you'll never be able to hear - or even just read - him without seeing it. I can't say it'll ever equal the magic of hearing Bill Cosby's Himself as a kid, but as an adult it's pretty satisfying.
(Unproductivity is pretty satisfying.)
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1 - Matt Paprocki
"We do not need to bring ink and paper into this." Seriously,this guy is priceless. Glad to see someone else out there knows his so well.
2 - Katie
I was able to see Mitch when he played in St. Louis. In the middle of his act he just blurted out this quick little blurb, "Do you like A-1? No, I like B-2." Mitch then continued on to say "That's funny, I think I will write that down." and he did. I was kind of one of those perfect moments where you got to see one of the places that his comedic genius came to fruition.
For about the last half hour of his show memebers of the auidence yelled out bits from his CD's. If they were anything like my friend and I they were listening to these CD's on the way to the show. We knew them all by heart to begin with. I just kept waiting for someone to yell out Freebird. Thankfully that did not happen.