New Mitch Hedberg!

For years I drove people crazy by endlessly quoting Mitch Hedberg jokes all the time. I went to see him live in 2005, a month before his untimely death, and snuck in a lo-fi recording device. Someday, perhaps, that bootleg will see the light of day.

In the meantime, word comes that a new Mitch Hedberg CD will be released on September 9, entitled Do You Believe in Gosh? Since Hedberg's death, I've scoured the Internet for video clips and bootlegs, and I'm convinced that I've heard ever joke Mitch ever told. Will this disc surprise me and produce something new?

Who knows. But you can bet I'll be picking it up the day it comes out. Below is an unconfirmed track listing, which reveals several familiar tracks ("Imagine if the Headless Horseman had a headless horse... that would be fucking chaos!"), and several that don't sound familiar at all ("The Vacuumist?")

1. The Improv Fairy Tale
2. Door Deal
3. Hot Air Balloon
4. Headless Horseman
5. Hotels and Beds
6. Phil
7. Restaurants
8. Texas and Sea Food
9. Tea Ski
10. Canal Smarts
11. The Vacuumist
12. Belt
13. Soda Pop

Here's some vintage Mitch:
Video: Mitch Hedberg on Conan O'Brien

I've found the new Mitch Hedberg

This is a music blog, but comedians put out CDs, so screw it, I'm talking about comedy.

Anyone who knows me knows I adore the late Mitch Hedberg. He is the funniest man I've ever heard, with his off-the-wall one-liners and bizarre manner of speaking, i.e. stressing of syllables that aren't supposed to be stressed. I believe I have heard every joke Mitch ever told, thanks to websites and YouTube videos, and I still treasure the bootlegged tape I made of his show at the Byham Theater a few months before he died...

Anyway... I'm finally able to get over Mitch thanks to Demetri Martin. This guy (who looks like an emo kid but is actually 34) tells the jokes that Mitch would be telling if he were alive today. In fact, he's actually stolen some of Mitch's jokes, but we'll let that slide and enjoy them:

My computer beat me at chess. But then I beat him at kickboxing...

Glitter doesn't go away. Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies...

I remember when I used to be into nostalgia...