I’m watching an episode of “Top Chef Masters” in which one of the competitors is Wylie Dufresne.

For some people, the name “Dufresne” immediately kicks up “The Shawshank Redemption,” but for me, it makes me think of the late, great comic Mitch Hedberg. Hedberg had a very funny routine, delivered in his unique, hippy-dippy cadence, about restaurant waiting lists. The servers will sometimes call out a name (“Dufresne … party of four … Dufresne …”) and then, getting no response, just move on to the next name (“Bush … party of three ….”)

Hedberg then responds in horror, expressing his concern for the missing Dufresnes.

“How can you eat … at a time like this?” he asked. “It should be ‘Bush … search party of three. You can eat after you find the Dufresnes.’”

Like any Hedberg routine, it loses something in transcription. You really had to hear him do the routine in his own voice.