alright, first of all, how in the fuck do we not have a bill hicks thread in this place?

now that that's off of my chest, i've been listening to some of his stuff lately (i've been a fan for about four or so years now...i got into him after hearing denis leary's standup routines) and i'm absolutely loving

this is a whole show recorded in oxford about a week before clinton was elected in 92 and top to bottom it is some really great stuff from this man. the sad thing about it is he talks a lot about bush sr and...a lot of it actually fits dubya.
i love his bit about how "if you vote for clinton, he's gonna lie to you and raise taxes. he's gonna raise taxes even though he's gonna tell you he's not. a vote for clinton is a vote for taxes."
"you know, i think it'll be alright if i pay 15 cents more for a litre of petrol as long as i know we aren't overseas bombing the hell out of some brown colored nations."
and he talks about how in the 80's the US armed the world and gave the middle easterners weapons to fight the russians and then, surprise surprise, they ended up using our weapons against us.
"you know what iraq had before we went over there? they had fucking ROCKS. that's it"

it's a shame he died so young. if you've listened to some of his other stuff there are some repeat jokes on salvation, but it is still a top notch performance.

Bill Hicks was phenomenal. He'd lash out at his audiences for not getting his humor. He was just far more intelligent than your average ordinary person. He was too bright to burn forever. Died from cancer at 32, I believe, early 1990s.

I love that bit where he talked about good times on drugs.

On shrooms, "I laid in a field of green grass for two hours going 'I love... everything.' Then we got back in the car and it said 'The door is ajar.' We pulled over and thought about that for four hours. How can a door be a jar? I see it man, I totally see that."

And that part where he talked about losing leaders:

"JFK... dead. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X... dead. RFK... dead. John Lennon... dead. Reagan... wounded."

i love him

Wasn't Bill Hicks the inspiration for the line "I feel like a preacher waving a gun around"?

I'm 90% sure Tom said something like that.

over the weekend i watched a lot of bill hicks and george carlin clips on you tube. bill made me laugh a lot more. great, great stuff. "i want my rockstars dead!!!!!!!!!!".

i'm going to look up some of his stuff to download and listen to.

I've been a fan for a few years myself. He hit it big in the UK and Ireland before anywhere else. The guy was a genius.
Hands down my favourite comedian of all time. Too bad Dennis Leary got famous off Bill's material. The prick.

Okay well I mentioned this recently in the Mitch Hedberg thread, but now that we've got one totally dedicated to Hicks, I'll repeat it.

I read a few weeks ago that Russell Crowe is trying to get a Bill Hicks biopic off the ground, I believe in which he'll star.

No way i don't see crowe pulling that off at all, and i think he's a great actor

I think Russell Crowe sorta looks like Hicks, but pulling off the voice might be kind of tricky.

billhicks.com




that should be interesting too

Bill Hicks' censored set to air on Letterman tonight:

http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/01/28/this- ... ill-hicks/

Bill Hicks was only 32 years old when he died of cancer in 1994. If you've never heard of him, or heard of him but didn't get a chance to see any of his work, tune into The Late Show with David Letterman this Friday night.

One of Letterman's guests will be Hicks' mom (the show was taped earlier this week). She'll be there to mark the 15th anniversary of Hicks' death. Now, this may seem like an odd thing for a talk show to do, have the mom of a deceased comic on, but there's special meaning behind this appearance. Just five months before his death, Hicks appeared on The Late Show and did a scathing stand-up routine (the kind he usually did) which attacked everything from religion to politics. Unfortunately, it was too hot for the show and the performance was never shown, and this really hurt Hicks. On Friday, Letterman is finally going to show the performance.

Hicks wasn't for everyone, but you have to admire how much he threw himself into his role as a stand-up comic. A lot of people say that Denis Leary borrowed a lot of his act from Hicks, and I don't know if that's true or fair, but I think it is fair to say that a lot of comics were heavily influenced by him. Russell Crowe might play Hicks in a movie.

Never listened to him before, until the last three hours I spent on youtube.

I wish he was still around today to talk about shit like American Idol.

I will have to watch Letterman tonight.

That is primarily because he really was not that funny.

Have you ever seen the biopic of Lenny Bruce, starring Dustin Hoffman, called Lenny (1974)? Good stuff. Bill Hicks, Carlin, Lewis Black etc they all took from Lenny Bruce.

holy shit there is a god

15 years too late, letterman redeems himself.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/3 ... 62799.html


so fucking good. "ahead of his time" doesn't even do him justice.

I would love to see what Bill Hicks' perspective would've been on the last eight years. Damn shame we lost him when we did.

"Bill, let it go, JFK was a long time ago. Okay. Then stop talking about Jesus. Talk about shelf life...."

the funny thing about the last 8 years is even the names don't change. It's still Bush. A lot of his jokes you can pluck from 1991 and use them in 2008.

Actually it's because american audiences are primarily retarded.