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I'd be interesting in seeing something like this breakdown for someone like Mitch Hedberg, who is generally considered to be one of the greatest stand-ups of al
by jadell 8y ago
I'd be interesting in seeing something like this breakdown for someone like Mitch Hedberg, who is generally considered to be one of the greatest stand-ups of all time (especially among other stand-up comedians. You'll often hear other comedians include his name in lists with Carlin, Pryor and other all-time greats.) Hedberg's style is definitely not narrative, not explicitly. It's about as far to the one-liner one-joke-after-another end of the spectrum as you can get.
- jfoutz 8y agoStephen Wright is kinda like that also.
- ckocagil 8y agoJimmy Carr too.
- PuffinBlue 8y agoJimmy Carr himself would probably disagree with you and instead cite Harry Hill, as would most UK comedians.
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- kimdotcom 8y agoHenny Youngman was one of the firsts.
- s-shellfish 8y agoMitch Hedberg is much more similar to programmer/hacker humor IMO. Puns, jargon, word play, grammatical structure, lots of modification to simple statements for comedy. That creates a different kind of overarching structural complexity. I find that much more funny than traditional comedy, because it's my flavor of clever. Many elements of Shakespeare minus the explicit narrative.