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Originally Posted by Answer

Mitch Hedburg: Nobody gave a fuck about Hedburg until he died.

Incorrect.

Soon the industry plugged him into its big-money promotion cycle: Letterman booked him compulsively on the Late Show, Variety named him one of its "10 comics to watch," and Fox signed him to a half-million-dollar sitcom deal. In 1998, when Seinfeld swaggered out of America's national living room, Hedberg was on many critics' shortlist of successors. Time magazine actually said it: "the next Seinfeld."

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/c...ast_laugh.html