I saw a commercial on Comedy Central today that had a snippet of a show by a comedian whose name I can’t remember. He’s not terribly well known but funny as hell. He’s a young guy with longish shaggy black hair and never looks at the audience during his set; he always looks down and comes off as quite odd. His set consists of one liners similar in style to Steven Wright’s. The one I most remember is something like:
I can’t wait till my set is over because I have a pack of life savers in my pocket and the next one is pineapple.
The one on the commercial is something like:
I’ve noticed that my popularity with ducks is directly related to whether or not I’m carrying bread.
Sounds like Mitch Hedberg. Unfortunately his drinking seems to be affecting his performances lately, based on what I heard about his recent performance here in AZ and what I read at his website about his (absence from a) performance in Seattle.
I’m not sure I’d describe him as Steve Wrightish (BTW, I knew exactly who you were talking about in the OP, but couldn’t place a name to it until I read the responses.)
While there’s a certain similarity in the slightly-disjointed-series-of-one-liners aspect, their delivery (a more recognizable part of the style in my mind) is totally different for each. And Mitch seems to have a more coherant flow to his act than Wright. I prefer Mitch’s style, personally.
Could be. I saw him as part of Comedy Central’s tour with Louis Black and Dave Attell. There were some good Steven Wrightish one-liners in the set, but they were buried under slurred stream-of-consciousness gibberish.
I knew just from reading the OP title that you meant Mitch Hedberg. Interestingly, he and Stephen Wright are my favorite stand-up comics (along with David Cross and the late, great Bill Hicks).
When I grow up, I want to be a race car passenger…
I would say things like,
“Why you have to drive so fast?”
“Are we ever going to turn right?”
“Man, you like Tide.”
I was at a restaurant and the waitress asked me if I wanted an ice cold drink. I said Hell no! That would be a solid. I want sip my beverages, not chew them.
My lucky number is four billion. That doesn’t come in real handy when you’re gambling. “Come on, four billion! F—. Seven. Not even close. I need more dice.”
I was walking down the street at 3 am one night, and I saw a dry cleaner’s with a sign that said, “Sorry, we’re closed.” I was like, man, don’t be sorry. It’s 3 am. It would be ridiculous for me to expect a dry cleaner’s to be open this time of night.
“A rotisserie is like a demented death ferris wheel for chicken. When people ask how I like my chicken I say ‘dizzy’.”
“I don’t like that introduction: ‘You may have seen this next comic on the Tonight Show’. I think a better introduction would be: ‘You may have seen this next comic at the store’.”
