Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty years ago, the comedy world was stunned by the death of beloved performer Mitch Hedberg, who was still on the rise not long ...

The stars were aligning for Mitch Hedberg in the 1990s. Time Magazine called him “the next Seinfeld.” The Fox network agreed, handing the comedian half a million dollars to create the next monster ...

Forget that Mitch Hedberg OD’d on March 29, 2005. Everybody dies, especially comedians. They die young, tragically, with a lifetime’s worth of soul-soothing mirth incomplete and undone. But that’s ...