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| Strategic Grill Locations | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | September 7, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1999 | |||
| Venues | The Laff Stop, Houston | |||
| Genre | Stand-up comedy | |||
| Length | 53:47 | |||
| Label | Comedy Central | |||
| Producer | Jack Vaughn | |||
| Mitch Hedberg chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
Strategic Grill Locations is a comedy album from Mitch Hedberg. It is a recording of a performance at The Laff Stop comedy club in Houston, Texas, on September 7, 1999. The album was originally self-published by Hedberg and sold through his website and at shows. In conjunction with the release of his second album, Mitch All Together, the Comedy Central label also re-released this album, editing out some jokes that did not get much reaction. This re-release was packaged in a digipack. The original release featured a different cover.[2]
Like Mitch All Together, the title Strategic Grill Locations is taken from a joke that does not actually appear on the album:
See I'm a dreamer, man, and when I was a cook I'd always work with people who weren't dreamers. Like, I was cooking at this restaurant and I put a hot dog on the grill and my kitchen manager came over, and he said, "Mitch, put the hot dog up here, in the right-hand corner of the grill, so in case you get a whole bunch of orders at once you have all this space available." See that's how I knew he wasn't a dreamer, 'cause the day I give up my dreams is the day I have strategic grill locations. A dreamer has a philosophy: The entire grill is hot.
Strategic Grill Locations contains 21 tracks of mostly one-liners. Tracks contain a series of both related and unrelated jokes, and are named for one of them. Hedberg's performance is accompanied by Chuck Savage on double bass.
Reception
[edit]Spin Magazine ranked the album as one of the 40 Greatest Comedy Albums of All Time,[3] as did The A.V. Club.[4] During a Hot Ones interview, comedian John Mulaney listed the album as one of his four favorite stand-up albums, calling him a "totally singular voice".[5]
Track listing
[edit]- "The CD Jokes" – 2:36
- "Koalas" – 3:08
- "Highlights" – 2:08
- "You Were Good" – 2:00
- "Shaving Too" – 2:12
- "Minibar" – 2:58
- "Beret and Pancakes" – 1:49
- "The Velcro Wallet" – 2:41
- "Dry Clean Only" – 1:27
- "Gambling" – 2:25
- "My Necklace" – 2:45
- "Acting" – 2:59
- "Lynn" – 2:45
- "Tomatoes" – 2:39
- "Six People Isn't Convincing" – 2:55
- "Cookies" – 3:13
- "Oatmeal" – 2:44
- "Smackie the Frog" – 2:50
- "Frogs and Bears" – 3:00
- "Fire Exit" – 3:12
- "The Dufrenes" – 1:21
References
[edit]- ↑ Allmusic review
- ↑ Hedberg's CD page, noting, "the original cover of "Strategic Grill Locations" is no longer available." Retrieved July 6, 2008.
- ↑ "SPIN's 40 Greatest Comedy Albums of All Time". SPIN. November 1, 2011. Retrieved January 2, 2026.
- ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas; 2023 | 12:00pm (August 8, 2023). "The 40 best comedy albums of all time, ranked". AV Club. Retrieved January 2, 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ John Mulaney Seeks the Truth While Eating Spicy Wings (Video). Hot Ones. June 30, 2023.
