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I just love his work. Another dead hero... 🙁
I watched the [url= http://www.americanthemovie.com/ ]Bill Hicks Story[/url] last night it was pretty good.
What's your favourite Bill Hicks quote/clip/sketch?
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Yeah kill yourself was a good skit. I have to say though good as he was he was also pretty dire in places.
The 'one extra vertebrae' has to be a classic. It's the next evolutionary step.
Saw him in Oxford a short time before he died - thought he was out of this world - in a different solar system to any other stand up I've seen.
Watch his stuff now and I can't believe how dated it is, and how lacking in funny Hicks is for a comedian.
Not sure which one of us (me 97ish v me 2011) is right. Probably wee me, comedy isn't a great medium for laying down and exhuming at a later date.
Jools, he did have a drink problem, during that time the crowd and venue management would ply him with booze and watch him drink himself to a stupor. He eventually got over it, and when he came back sober he was better than ever.
Garry, indeed he was completely unorthodox, and as you say, on a different planet. Even if he was lacking in funny, much of his epic material is still relevant today, and many would say, even more so now than ever.
Bit ambivalent about him, having had his stuff rammed down my throat by various people who can robotically quote every line he's ever written, but he had some good material. I like the "we got ourselves a reader" story.
One word question.... dinosaurs?
various people who can robotically quote every line he's ever written
I think this says a lot about him, partly generational, but There were many who could quote huge amounts of The Goons, Monthy Python, The Young Ones and so on. In m fact to the extent there are folks who use some of those phrases without even realising their provenance.
"What yer reading fer?"
awesome character, sad loss to the world
The one where he gets accosted in the car park after the gig by a couple of dumb rednecks:
"HEY BUDDY! WE DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT JESUS!!"
"Oh well - forgive me, then..."
I watched the Bill Hicks Story last night it was pretty good.
Got this on Blu Ray the other day, fantastic, always loved Bill Hicks, he really should be alive commenting on the state of the world today.
"I want my rock stars dead."
Bill Hicks story is brilliant.
...he really should be alive commenting on the state of the world today.
I agree with you completely, almost as if there is now a kind of void. If he was here today I imagine him saying "I told you so" quite alot, and commenting on how history is circular, and how it repeats itself.
As intense he was, changing perceptions and making people really think about the world we live in, he also in a way, give people hope.
"Hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..." - are the words that really made an impression on me.
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ftfy
Trailofdestruction: snap! lol
More coke. More snickers!
seen him in Liverpool 1992 amazing ,I don't think I was ready for him though still a lot of relevance in what he says
Saw this thread and knew Torminalis would be on here, he introduced me to him and yes he is/was awesome
would have loved to have heard what he had to say about the last 15/20 years... shame he died so young.
As for someone saying his stuff gets dated, well yes if you have known it for years. i only ever really heard of hicks in about 04, and his stuff was hilarious then, i think it's just that we don't have any new material to listen to.
So, his older stuff may seem dated, more over played to be fair. Anyone listening to it for the first time will laugh their head of imo, either that or they need a sense of humour transplant.
Boring, tedious, very popular among people who work in advertising/marketing.
Never found him boring or tedious. Never really saw him as a comedian either, more a social commentator in a time when it wasn't fashionable to be one.
Was also going to quote 'Hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride...' 🙂
Used to watch him on tv back in the 90's thought he was like no comedian I had ever seen before, brilliant man.
How did he die?
Well, he used to smoke a lot of cigarettes...
He was brilliant... for his time. Some seems stale now.
He has become a bit of a "wasn't he brilliant"' cliche. I wonder if he would be surprised by the adulation and cult around him.
Jerry Sadowitz and Stewart Lee are both better, alive and gigging in the uk.
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If you like Bill Hicks, another comedian to look out for along similar lines is Doug Stanhope, saw him the other week in London, hilarious.
He was also the guy with the little section on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
Nice one Buscuit, I am going to check him out!
Yup, Stanhope is great too.
Everyone should watch 'American - The Bill Hicks Story' to see how much work he put in and how much he sacrificed to do what he did.