The Surrealist Jester: Mitch Hedberg

Mitch Hedberg's Comedy wasn't funny at all, infact it might just be meaningless. Except for the fact that if he edited his jokes down to a concise book, he could probably be a Linguistics Professor. His jokes make you question everything around you, the things that we all take for granted. He wrote the type of jokes that if you read them you'd likely get irritated, if you went to school with him he was probably the kid that pointed out contradictions in your speech, errors of language way beyond your own level of comprehension. He was also the kid that likely drove the teachers mad by asking too many "unimportant" questions, that the teachers either didn't know the answers to or were powerless to change and too complicated to try and explain why thus pure non-sense. In other words he was the annoying kid to both student, teacher and faculty. I bet he made himself laugh a lot though. It's the way he said it and the way he could bring you in to his world that was so funny. It's like looking at the world through a psychedelic filter, that makes you smile and ask "Why?" to everything. "My belt holds up my pants, but my belt loops hold up my belt, I don't know who the real hero is..."After he rattles off, 10 different seemingly innocuous thoughts, you're hooked, and locked in his world. Through his humor you can see the world anew, why do we name things the way we do, what is the purpose of anything? Mitch Hedberg was great and found humor where few others before him found it. He died before his prime at the age of 37.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Hedberg
http://www.mitchhedberg.net/