1. It takes forever to cook a baked potato in a conventional oven, sometimes I just throw one in there, even if I don’t want one. And by the time it’s done… who knows.
  2. If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker and you were walking down the sidewalk with him, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.
  3. I haven’t slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
  4. “A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.”
  5. “An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.”
  6. “Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.”
  7. “My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.”
  8. “I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re goin’, and hook up with them later.”
  9. “I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn’t have one. So I got a cake.”
  10. “Dogs are forever in the push up postion.”
  11. “I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That’s like a free compliment and you don’t even gotta be smart to notice it.”
  12. I order a club sandwhich all the time, but I’m not even a member man, I don’t know how I get away with it.
  13. “I like to play blackjack. I’m not addicted to gambling. I’m addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.”
  14. “Every time I go and shave, I assume there’s someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, ‘I’m gonna go shave, too.’”
  15. “I don’t have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who’d be mad at me for saying that.”
  16. “Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?”
  17. “I like refried beans. That’s why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they’re just as good and we’re just wasting time. You don’t have to fry them again after all.”
  18. “My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don’t really know what’s happening down there. Who is the real hero?”
  19. “Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.”
  20. I was at a bar, I was minding my own business, no one was talking to me cause I had just did a show. This guy bumped into me which is cool, but he didn’t apologize, he said “Move”, and I thought that was rude so I said “Go to hell”, and then I started to run. He caught up with me. He had a mustache, a goatee, a pair of earings, a pair of sunglasses, his hair was in a ponytail, and he was wearing a hat. Hey said “Hey, you got a lot of nerve.” I said “Hey, you got a lot of… cranium accessories.” *crowd laughs* This is a smart crowd here, when I play the dumb crowd, I gotta say “You got a lot of shit on your head.”
  21. “This shirt is dry clean only. Which means… it’s dirty.”
  22. “I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, ‘You’re gonna have to move, you’re blocking a fire exit.’ As though if there was a fire, I wasn’t gonna run. If you’re flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.”
  23. “Y’know, you can’t please all the people all the time… and last night, all those people were at my show.”
  24. “You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don’t want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.”
  25. “When someone hands you a flyer, it’s like they’re saying here you throw this away.”
  26. “I wish I could play little league now. I’d be way better than before.”
  27. “A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.”
  28. “The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.”
  29. “It’s very dangerous to wave to people you don’t know because what if they don’t have hands? They’ll think you’re cocky.”
  30. “I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn’t work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.”
  31. “I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I’m upside down.”
  32. “I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You’ll be mad, but it will be too late.”
  33. “I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.”
  34. Whenever I walk, people try to hand me out flyers, and when someone tries to hand me out a flyer, it’s kind’ve like they’re saying “Here… you throw this away.”
  35. I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once.
  36. “If my kid couldn’t draw I’d make sure that my kitchen magnets didn’t work.”
  37. “I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.”
  38. “Spaghetti… I can’t eat spaghetti, there’s too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I’ll have 1,000 pieces of noodles.”
  39. “I’m gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.”
  40. “I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.”
  41. “I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car’s headlights and tell you exactly which way it’s coming.”
  42. I rent a lot of cars because I go on the road, and when I drive a rental car I don’t know what’s going on with it right… so a lot of times I drive for like 10 miles with the emergency brake on. That doesn’t say a lot for me, but it really doesn’t say a lot for the *emergency* *brake*.
  43. “I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.”
  44. “I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.”
  45. “My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She’s an actress, she just never gets called to the set.”
  46. “All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.”
  47. Acid was my favorite drug, acid expanded my mind. Because of acid, I now know that butter is way better than margerine. I saw through the bullshit.
  48. “Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain’t funny!”
  49. “I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.”
  50. I hate turkeys. If you go to the grocery store and stand in the lunchmeat section for too long you start to get pissed off at turkeys. You see like Turkey-Ham, Turkey-Pastromi, Turkey-Balogna… somebody needs to tell the turkeys “Man… just be yourself.”

— Mitch Hedberg

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