Day: August 28, 2008

Listening to Mitch Hedberg’s posthumous CD, Do You Believe in Gosh? (available Sept. 9 on Comedy Central Records), it’s difficult for me to maintain objectivity. After all, I knew Mitch Hedberg. I interviewed Mitch Hedberg. I performed alongside Mitch Hedberg. And no comedian is, or will ever be, Mitch Hedberg. The world lost this comedian much, much too soon in 2005. In fact, when Hedberg died in March 2005, he was just starting to develop a new hour of material that he would have recorded that October. Instead, we get treated to an even earlier version of his last new jokes, recorded at one of the Improv clubs two months before his death. You can preview the CD here. For my review, and a chance to win a free copy of the CD, read on! Mitch Hedberg had a way of making you laugh at just about anything. Listening to this CD, even in this rough live comedy club form, you see just how in the moment Hedberg could be onstage. Right from his first words in this show, Hedberg proves how cognizant he was about his audience and his surroundings, announcing: “All right. There are a lot of people in the bathroom, so…I don’t want to waste these jokes.” So very Mitch. The audience laughs.“Are there speakers in the bathroom? Alright, well f*@& it. Let’s do it. I’ll...