Mitch Hedberg Wife: Meet Lynn Shawcroft

Mitchell Lee Hedberg was an American stand-up comedian known for his surreal humor and deadpan delivery. His comedy typically featured short, sometimes one-line jokes mixed with absurd elements and non-sequiturs.

Mitch Hedberg Wife: Meet Lynn Shawcroft

Hedberg was married to Canadian comedian Lynn Shawcroft from 1999 until he died in 2005. Hedberg occasionally added disclaimers to the end of a joke if it was not sufficiently well received, frequently variations on “that joke’s dumb, I’m aware of that.” During recordings for CDs, he would often say that he would find a way to edit a failed gag to make it seem well-received, for example by “adding laughter” to a failed joke containing arithmetic.

Following such a failure on Strategic Grill Locations, Hedberg suggested, “All right… that joke is going to be good because I’m going to take all the words out and add new words. That joke will be fixed.”