Mike Castiglione
The world lost revolutionary comedian Mitch Hedberg 11 years ago, and one fan paid a birthday tribute to Hedberg’s headstone in perhaps the most fitting way possible.
For anyone unfamiliar with Hedberg’s work, the donut (with receipt) pays homage to one of his better known jokes, and even showed up on an actual receipt at a donut shop a couple of years ago:
“I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut … I don’t need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don’t need to bring ink and paper into this. I can’t imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, ‘Don’t even act like I didn’t get that doughnut, I’ve got the documentation right here… It’s in my file at home. …Under D.’”
Hedberg’s fans all have our favorite one-liners, and here are a few of mine:
- I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
- This one commercial said, “Forget everything you know about slip covers,” so I did. And it was a load off my mind… Then the commercial tried to sell slip covers, but I didn’t know what the fuck they were.
- I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was a paperboy. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses… or two dumpsters.
- One time a guy handed me a picture, he said “Here’s a picture of me when I was younger.” Every picture of you is when you were younger.
- Every book is a children’s book if the kid can read.
Help honor the legend and let us know some of your favorites.
https://youtu.be/16bnGGDMlRc
“An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.”
“A dude asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said no. But I want a regular banana later. So, yeah”.
~Mitch Hedberg
RIP