“That’s a retarded joke, I know,” Mitch Hedberg proclaims after he tells a joke wherein his vodka-soaked Hoover is so drunk it can’t vacuum in a straight line.

The self effacing Hedberg uses the phrase and slight variations thereof throughout the nearly 40 minutes of stand-up contained on the now iconic comic’s third album Do You Believe in Gosh? He hammers himself down during his set at the Ontario, CA Improv, no doubt for a few reasons— not least of which, despite his enormous popularity before his death in March 2005, Hedberg remained a modest man— maybe too modest.

the rest is here:
http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/20...lieve-in-gosh/

thanks.

-dylan