He sprawled out back-first on the stage floor, then asked the audience for drugs. At that performance Hedberg couldn’t remember his jokes. Worried because I recently read a review of a train wreck performance. And as the effects of his presumably hard-drinking, pill-popping ways continue to reveal themselves to his fans, the whole deal becomes more and more of a serious downer.I am a big fan of Mitch Hedberg, and was mighty psyched to see him live for the first time.But I was also worried. He’s doing his best to live out his own stupid, sordid, rock-and-roll flameout dream. And then, he pauses again.Mitch Hedberg is rock-and-roll, and he knows it. He’s a rebel who likes to pause, then tell curiously staccato jokes with delivery that falls somewhere between John Wayne, the Fonz, and a Dr. Mitch Hedberg is a leather-jacket, tinted-sunglasses-wearing proto-beatnik.
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