Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Comedian Mitch Hedberg is set to be the focus of a forthcoming documentary, nearly two decades after his death. Director Jeff ...

Lynn Shawcroft, the widow of beloved stand-up comedian Mitch Hedberg, wrote a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter today titled “The Late Comic Isn’t Done Being Funny.” The piece serves as a look ...

Mitch Hedberg was truly one of a kind and it's hard to believe he's been gone for two decades. His nonchalant delivery of his unconventional jokes left us all rolling in the aisles and even though he ...

Comedian Mitch Hedberg left behind a scanty treasure-trove of work before his death in 2005 of a drug overdose at age 37 -- two CDs, 10 appearances on David Letterman, and bit parts in the movies and ...

Mitch Hedberg's sweetly surreal stand-up made him a favorite of Steve Martin and David Letterman, among others. And now, 13 years after his drug-related death, his widow is finally ready to unpack a ...

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As far as comedy legends go, Mitch Hedberg is as among the greats. His time was brief, but he definitely made a lasting impression. Sadly, Hedberg's brilliant comedy was silenced when he died from a ...

Forget that Mitch Hedberg OD’d on March 29, 2005. Everybody dies, especially comedians. They die young, tragically, with a lifetime’s worth of soul-soothing mirth incomplete and undone. But that’s ...

Mitch Hedberg is timeless, but still came (and went) too soon. The brilliant one-liner comic passed away suddenly in 2005, before social media was fully established as a part of daily life. With his ...

Mitch Hedberg would’ve been the greatest tweeter of all time. His musings — the foggy ramblings of a campfire acid trip, the lizard-brain reflections during a groggy shower, the banal grievances and ...