Bill Hicks C or D

i dunno, there are a lot of hicks wanna-bes who were set afire by his righteous bile and missed the self-aware self-deprecation

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not everyone needs a frustrated koresh type going off about his plight, even if he's the most self-aware of the batch

"childbirth is not a miracle. childbirth is no more a miracle than you eating and a turd coming out of your ass"

huh

^ new dad, not target audience

haaa

yeah I don't know if I can handle that righteous bile at this point in my life

lol it was the first bit that came to mind.

a laser-guided rant etching itself into your brain

this shit's really more mannah for frustrated single dudes still living in their college town in the late twenties - or have been at some point in their lives

his rant on gays in the military is still appropo and classic.

"Is that a village of women and children? Quick, where's the napalm? But I don't want any gay people around while I'm killing kids, I just don't wanna see it!"

this shit's really more mannah for frustrated single dudes still living in their college town in the late twenties - or have been at some point in their lives

― da croupier, Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:40 AM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

basically "losers"

eyerolling at n/a

haha don't make me go jaymc.xls on your trolling, n/a

i will say the leno/joey lawrence interaction still makes me chuckle.

everyone has to see this! lol!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNRNCk3YwqE

sorry. its my new favorite show. heckler scene very inspiring.

went back to my hometown this weekend, pretty sure that got quoted five different times

xpost re: "you know it's always been my spiritual quest to interview a sixteen year old tony danza wanna-be..."

"yeah...no...i mean...she thinks so, i don't..."

haha don't make me go jaymc.xls on your trolling, n/a

― da croupier, Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:42 AM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I don't even know what this means? Are you threatening to like go find embarrassing aspects of my personal life on ILX because I'm making fun of Bill Hicks fans?

Re: the Louie heckler scene

I REALLY love the whole "this is the only 15 minutes of happiness we get and you ruined it" which was some REAL TALK about the nature of performing AND the oblivious of some people to their surroundings.

But since dude is breaking it down to the elements, I really would have loved a sentence on two on exactly why he or Patton or Hicks were so quick to call women "cunts" when they ruin their show, because there's def another layer going on there that he would have probably been able to explore articulately

i'll take it to the Louie thread, as scott did

"ever go to a Eric Clapton concert with your own f***ing guitar? HEY ERIC, EVER HEARD THIS ONE?"

Are you threatening to like go find embarrassing aspects of my personal life on ILX because I'm making fun of Bill Hicks fans?

didn't really mean "finding embarrassing aspects" but if you're going to type "huh" every eighth post and call dudes who stayed in their college town "losers" I could easily point out stuff you've shared on the net regarding romance and employment that should make you glad you're not sympathetic to Hicks types but also think twice about trolling them too hard.

...LOSER

I guess then the prudent thing for me to do is to bow out from this thread.

Better safe than sorry.

hey, guys, he spawned. he's doing alright. let's not put our bitterness on him.

this shit's really more mannah for frustrated single dudes still living in their college town in the late twenties - or have been at some point in their lives

― da croupier, Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:40 AM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

basically "losers"

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, August 17, 2010 10:41 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^dumb. It's fucking stand-up comedy, not Proust. Fucking lighten up.

guess then the prudent thing for me to do is to bow out from this thread.

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, August 17, 2010 11:05 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

See ya.

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okay you guys are acting more like this now:

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proust was kind of a big loser though, living in the past and all

so who belongs on the "angry funny liberal middle-american loser" mount rushmore with hicks and pekar?

also, sorry i went ilx meta when really i should have said "we can't all be winners"

l. bangs

all the novelists and short story writers i'm thinking of turned out relatively successful and well-adjusted. (then again, so did pekar.)

Bangs OTM

And prob'ly a serial killer or two

we can't all be cool. OH!

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proust was kind of a big loser though, living in the past and all

I lol'd

"fuck a hicks i'm still here motherfuckers!"

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so awesome...

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he's gotten to the point where he just smashes his own shit with a sledgehammer.

Gallagher & The Murder Junkies

you guys aren't even worthy of being gallagher's sledgehammer tech

Comedian Leo Gallagher, known professionally as just Gallagher, is famous for smashing watermelons with a sledgehammer, along with other fruit and vegetables, during his act. Gallagher, the comedian who smashes watermelons on stage, is suing his younger brother, claiming his sibling has stolen his act and violated the performer's trademark name. The dispute has led the Gallaghers' father to disown his famous son. According to a complaint filed in a Michigan court, "Ron Gallagher [the comedian's brother] and his promoters have violated Gallagher's right of publicity and trademark rights and have engaged in false advertising and unfair competition, thereby creating consumer confusion." The complaint seeks damages and

a court injunction to halt Ron Gallagher from taking his act on the road and passing himself off as Leo Gallagher. 'I'm just a pimple on your ass' "People are confused -- they think they're going to a Gallagher show," said Leo Gallagher, whose shows can be seen on television in late-night slots on the cable network Comedy Central. "He used to say to me, 'I'm just a pimple on your ass.' But that pimple's infected now, and I can't sit down. It's been five years that I've realized [my family is] trying to steal my life from me -- my dad more than my brother. He's behind the whole thing. They're ruining the Gallagher image, which is creative. My shows survive in a time when things are just thrown away." Gallagher claims he gave his brother a job being, well, Gallagher, sending him out to smaller venues as "Gallagher 2." "He was out of a job," Gallagher said. "I was following the old maxim: Instead of giving a guy fish, teach him how to fish. I had him go work in little clubs but told him to stay out of my way. Go to the places I couldn't possibly go because of the size." Problems arose, he said, when his little brother started promoting his act under the name "Ron Gallagher," which he alleges causes confusion because most people don't know his first name. "He was defrauding the audience and pretending he was me," Leo Gallagher said. "Now when I say Gallagher's coming, they don't know if it's my brother or me. Now I shaved my head. I don't even look like him. I don't look like me. It's not about hair; it's about my mind. "How can you be egotistical and not be talented?" Fulfilling a wish? Ron Gallagher claims he's just fulfilling his brother's wishes, saying he quit his job 10 years ago to help his sibling handle a busy workload. "This was his idea," Ron said. "People make mistakes, wanna change their minds. If you wanna change your mind, you should be the one to pay for it, not someone else. I have a career, a family. ... For him to come up now, that's not acceptable. He ought to be suing himself. "He's garnered a lot of publicity by suing me. If it is [a publicity stunt], it's pretty sick. I'm just a small-time comic. I'm nowhere near the caliber of entertainer he is." Dispute over 'Sledge-O-Matic' No matter what the court decides -- a decision is expected soon -- the Gallagher brood seems divided for good. The parents have taken the side of their younger son, saying what was once a family operation has been ruined by Leo Gallagher's greed. "This is a heartbreaking situation for me," Ron Gallagher said. "I still love my brother." Both sides say they have tried to settle the matter out of court, with the comedian's manager saying that Ron Gallagher refused to give up the "Sledge-O-Matic" part of his act (the comic's term for smashing melons). Ron Gallagher and his father, Leo Gallagher Sr., say the "Sledge-O-Matic" was a joint discovery by the brothers and therefore shouldn't be limited to one act. 'I feel my son has died' "They got together and got all of the food out of our icebox and smashed everything all over the place," Leo Gallagher Sr. said. "They were very close in their earlier years. We were always a close family." But now, "I feel my son [Leo] has died. He's no longer my son," the father said. For his part, Gallagher, a leper among critics but a fan favorite for more than two decades, claims melon smashing wasn't apart of his act until 1975, long after he moved away from his family's South Florida home. "I never smashed a melon in Florida," he said. "The first melon I ever smashed was on New Year's Eve 1975, never in Florida. My first appearance on the Mike Douglas show in 1972 -- I don't smash a melon, I just threatened to do it. "This is my life."

i dunno, there are a lot of hicks wanna-bes who were set afire by his righteous bile and missed the self-aware self-deprecation

no doubt. doesn't make bill's work any less funny really though. dorian OTM waaaaaay up there...

Gallagher brothers fighting, who ever would have thought it?