# Who the hell is this guy?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 11, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821 "2000-11-11T22:33:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@mellonhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mellonhead)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/1 "2000-11-11T22:33:55Z")
I was watching an old video tape I got from a friend and there was some stand up comedy bits from Comedy Central that he recorded between episodes of South Park. There was one comedian in particular that I’ve seen in the past and he just kills me. Problem is I don’t know his name.
He’s looks like a pretty average Joe, has a somewhat nervous/whining voice and when he delivers his jokes he usually had the mike really close to his mouth. Sometimes he even covers his mouth with a nervous fist (as if he’s biting his nails or something). This seems to cover him laughing when he delivers the punch lines, and he always sounds like he’s on the edge of cracking up.
Does anyone know who this guy is…He’s really funny.
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2000, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/2 "2000-11-11T23:48:46Z")
Could it be Jake Johanson (sp?)? It sorta sounds like his style.
Sir
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### Author:  [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2000, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/3 "2000-11-12T00:09:35Z")
Can you describe the style of his jokes?
Any instruments? Specific topics he focused on?
Try [this site](http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/www.comedycentral.com/other;cat=entertainment;cat=comics_humor;ord=27501)
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/4 "2000-11-12T01:23:32Z")
I can vaguely think of the comedian you’re talking about, almost even picture him. But the nervous fist thing doesn’t sound like Jake Johannsen. Speaking of whom, I remember watching Johannsen do a riff on He-Man action figures, man, that was the last time I can remember laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe.
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2000, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/5 "2000-11-12T03:18:22Z")
Steven Wright and Bobcat Goldthwaite both sound pretty nervous. Guess it might be one of them.
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### Author:  [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2000, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/6 "2000-11-12T03:34:32Z")
Short, fat, long hair, getting bald, eyes like a puppy, scared look in his face? Bobcat Goldwaith. He was the punk guy from Police Academy.
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### Author:  [@Catfood\_Purrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catfood_Purrito)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2000, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/7 "2000-11-12T06:25:30Z")
I think I know who you’re talking about, but it’s neither Bobcat Goldwaithe or Steven Wright.
Did he do a joke about a cow being stupid because it would eat the hamburger he was trying to feed him? This is going to drive me nuts until I remember his name…
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2000, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/8 "2000-11-12T07:10:20Z")
It now sounds to me like a comedian who unfortunately died of cancer a couple year ago–his name was Dennis ???, had a small role on Quantum Leap as a character, I believe, named Ziggy, or some nickname. Seemed to tremble a lot as he told jokes.
Sir
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### Author:  [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2000, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/9 "2000-11-12T07:57:31Z")
Could it be [Mitch Hedburg](http://letterman.iscool.com/march97/3-7c.jpg)?
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2000, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/10 "2000-11-12T11:01:07Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Sir Rhosis \*
> \*\*It now sounds to me like a comedian who unfortunately died of cancer a couple year ago–his name was Dennis ???, had a small role on Quantum Leap as a character, I believe, named Ziggy, or some nickname. Seemed to tremble a lot as he told jokes.
>
> Sir \*\*
Dennis Wolfberg. Given that the OP describes “a pretty average Joe,” I don’t know if this is the guy, either. Wolfberg had that freaky hair and he delivered his jokes as if he had something irritating both of his eyes at the same time.
Hmm … I’m conjuring a name in my little mind. Is the comedian in question named Todd or something? Todd Perry? Don’t know why I thought of that.
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2000, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/11 "2000-11-12T11:05:48Z")
You know, Mitch Hedburg does sound like a pretty good guess, now that I’ve thought about it.
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### Author:  [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2000, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/12 "2000-11-12T15:19:38Z")
How about Jeremy Hotz? He does an angst-ridden, whining nervous bit, I seem to recall him doing the fist-chewing, he looks rather normal and he’s hysterical:
[http://www.ottawacomedy.com/Hall%20of%20Fame.htm#Hotz](http://www.ottawacomedy.com/Hall%20of%20Fame.htm#Hotz)
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### Author:  [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2000, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/13 "2000-11-12T16:41:25Z")
Mitch Hedberg is awesome.
Note to **mellonhead** : Mitch Hedburg’s bit is that he acts like a stoner, with his jokes usually jumping from topic to topic. He seems really out of it when he talks, but he does the “microphone near the mouth” thing. Example of one of his jokes:
“I like escalators. When the break down, they turn into stairs.”
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### Author:  [@mellonhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mellonhead)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/14 "2000-11-12T20:21:17Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by yabob \*
> \*\*How about Jeremy Hotz?
>
> [http://www.ottawacomedy.com/Hall%20of%20Fame.htm#Hotz](http://www.ottawacomedy.com/Hall%20of%20Fame.htm#Hotz) \*\*
OH MY GOD! THANKS! THAT’S HIM!!!
-mellonhead
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### Author:  [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2000, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/15 "2000-11-12T21:05:23Z")
I LIKE DIZZY CHICKEN!!!
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### Author:  [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2000, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-hell-is-this-guy/40821/16 "2000-11-12T22:18:30Z")
roasted dizzy chicken makes me hungry