re: Top 5 Comedians - Does Norm Macdonald fall into that discussion

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Mitch Hedberg belongs nowhere near that list.

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The kind of comedy Mitch Hedberg did is probably the most difficult to do well. Most of the comedians mentioned in this thread could attempt to do what he did and how he did it and they would bomb ten times out of ten.

Hedberg made what he did look easy, but it isn't easy at all. Finding a rythm in that style is nearly impossible. Every single joke stands alone and is reliant upon the delivery moreso than anything else. It is why you can tell a lot of those jokes out of context and they aren't funny. When Mitch told them, he'd kill with them.

I would have loved to have seen where he would have gone as a comedian had he not died.