Funny in a few words

I first heard the comedian Mitch Hedberg in 2003.
His writing was impressive.
There were no unnecessary words in his jokes, which were short to begin with.
Probably his shortest joke—possibly the shortest funny joke ever—is this one:


I tried to walk into Target, but I missed. Damn.


Hedberg died, like so many brilliant people who are not forgotten, of a drug overdose.
I'm resigned to dying a natural death.

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