Comic MITCH HEDBERG dead?

[Jeffros Spec V]

I heard on Howard Stern today that Mitch Hedberg a comic cosidered to be the next Jerry Seinfeld died last night. They didn't really have any information and I couldn't find anything on the internet but i wonder if it was true.

Heres two quick jokes....

I like cinnamon rolls, but I don't always have time to make a pan. That's why I wish they would sell cinnamon roll incense. After all, I'd rather light a stick and have my roommate wake up with false hopes"

I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad a turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastromi,.Some one needs to tell the turkey, man, just be yourself."

[99SL2_Modder]

Neither does his official site have anything...

and it's the day before april fools.

Plus, Howard Stern sucks monkey balls.

[TehWagon]

That would indeed suck if he was dead.

"I don't have a microwave... I just have a clock that occasionally cooks s h i t ..."

[teh DIRT]

ash! dodging the sweat filter! how dare you!

[TehWagon]

BAHAHAHA - the 'sweat' filter has nothing on me!!!
besides, i'm dating a mod, so i'm in like flynn... whatever that means... ;)

[99SL2_Modder]

Originally Posted by CarWidow

BAHAHAHA - the 'sweat' filter has nothing on me!!!
besides, i'm dating a mod, so i'm in like flynn... whatever that means... ;)

Reference books almost universally assert that this set phrase, an American expression meaning to be successful emphatically or quickly, especially in regard to sexual seduction, refers to the Australian-born actor Errol Flynn. His drinking, drug-taking and sexual exploits were renowned, even for Hollywood, but the phrase is said to have been coined following his acquittal in February 1943 for the statutory rape of a teenage girl. This seems to be supported by the date of the first example recorded, in American Speech in December 1946, which cited a 1945 use in the sense of something being done easily.

The trouble with this explanation is that examples of obviously related expressions have now turned up from dates before Flynn’s trial. Barry Popik of the American Dialect Society found an example from 1940, as well as this from the sports section of the San Francisco Examiner of 8 February 1942: “Answer these questions correctly and your name is Flynn, meaning you’re in, provided you have two left feet and the written consent of your parents”. To judge from a newspaper reference he turned up from early 1943, the phrase could by then also be shortened to I’m Flynn, meaning “I’m in”.

It’s suggested by some writers that the phrase really originated with another Flynn, Edward J Flynn—“Boss” Flynn—a campaign manager for the Democratic party during FDR’s presidency. Flynn’s machine in the South Bronx in New York was so successful at winning elections that his candidates seemed to get into office automatically.

The existence of the examples found by Mr Popik certainly suggest the expression was at first unconnected with Errol Flynn, but that it shifted its association when he became such a notorious figure. Since then, it has altered again, because in 1967 a film, In Like Flint, a spy spoof starring James Coburn, took its title by wordplay from the older expression, and in turn caused many people to think that the phrase was really in like Flint.

[TehWagon]

HOLY CRAP.

[99SL2_Modder]

Originally Posted by CarWidow

HOLY CRAP.

You asked.

[TehWagon]

Technically, not really. But thanks just the same. When I'm up for some homework I'm actually gonna read it!

[the mike]

True or not I am glad we got to see him live.

Take this with a grain of salt, it is a humor site.
http://www.thedotdotdot.com/humor/hedberg.html

Says he has passed away.

[99SL2_Modder]

Originally Posted by the mike

True or not I am glad we got to see him live.

Take this with a grain of salt, it is a humor site.
http://www.thedotdotdot.com/humor/hedberg.html

Says he has passed away.

And Stern is also (for the easily amused) a humor source.

Why is it that I take whatever Stern says with a grain of salt?

Oh, that's right. Because he's lame and his jokes are redundant.

[the mike]

Comedy Central's website is reporting the passing as well.

[nickmahhh]

This is truly sad. teh mike and carwidow and I just saw him a few months ago. Anotehre good comedian passes...well this beer is for you Mitch

[criz]

I'm happy I saw him live not too long ago!

here are the news articles... it appears to be a heart attack

http://news.google.com/news?q=mitch+...n&oi=newsr

[nickmahhh]

Those who followed his act, all knew he was into drugs. But I believe, if you make people laugh until you die, then that is an ideal way of dying. Laughter plays a huge part in life, it affects those who smile at the jokes you make, I wouldnt want to go out any other way. Again, this beer is for you Mitch...also the other ten were for you, but mostly for me cause I'm getting drunk...

[karl]

yeah i saw him twice both times with stephen lynch. he seemed pretty cool. but it was hard to not notice he was on something.
sad though only 37