Bill Hicks C or D

I wonder if mark s would like Rescue Me

I've always been fascinated by the whole "Denis Leary stole Bill Hicks' act" meme. I personally think that for someone as legendary as Hicks, he hasn't dated well at all.

Yeah, I'm not sure who stole from who. But I never had any use for what Hicks I've heard/seen; just seemed like dumb stoner humor to me. And Rescue Me is one of my favorite TV shows of the decade. (Liked Leary's Lock N Load album from 1997 okay, too.)

i really wish The Job had stuck around for a few seasons, tho i hear Rescue Me is pretty similar

I like Bill Hicks well enough tho I wish he didn't blow into the microphone. His fawningest fans seem to be very hateful and misanthropic people. I do quote him, tho: "Whatchoo READIN for?" Which I say to my dog a lot.

I wish I had not known so many hateful and misanthropic stoners in my life.

Classic bits:

1. "Mummy, I woke up today and there was a lincoln log in me sock drawer." "That's the story of Jesus."
2. his mom finds his porno collection after he dies
3. "Whatchoo readin' for?" "I've never been asked that. God dangit you stumped me."
4. "What's G-12 do, Tommy?"
5. His mom on a car trip, talking incessantly about people's swelling tumors, then offering him a plum.

There's more. I can see him getting a little dated (but jeez, have you tried listening to Lenny Bruce lately?), and a lot of his stuff is based on loving/hating the south, and maybe you had to be there for a lot of that. But he's very funny.

xpost HA! Abbot beat me to the waffle waitress joke.

We spelled it the same, too.

We're through the scary door here.

I wish I had not known so many hateful and misanthropic stoners in my life.

Yeah, I don't get off on the hate, and I have a hard time imagining anyone hearing some of his bits and being all like "Right on!" One of my favorite quotes about Rant in E Minor is from AMG, who calls it "the comedy equivalent of a Bergman film." Shit is a long dark night of the soul. The first time I listened to that record, some friends and I decided to have a little listening party and dropped a half hit of acid. This was not a fun time. I swear about 2/3 through it, I could *see* the hate. Bill on a bad day can flat rattle ya.

Oh dear that sounds like a mistake.

Almost as bad as seeing "Your Friends and Neighbors" on a first date.

regrets, I've had a few

But then again, too few that involved acid.

But the routine began with a segment about a new TV show he was going to do called "Let's Hunt and Kill Billy Ray Cyrus."

Coincidentally, the segment came after a promo for that night's Craig Ferguson show, in which he was discussing Miley Cyrus.

http://blogs.courant.com/roger_catlin_tv_eye/2009/01/bill-hicks-on-letterman-finall.html

Observations:
1) Hicks's mom wipes off her hand after Letterman shakes it.
2) Bill Hicks/ Mark Wahlberg fite!

What was the name of the special he did that kept superimposing burning flags over him every time he'd talk about the New World Order and shit? That's the first one I saw (in a big theater full of misanthropic libertarian atheists who thought he was the motherfucking TRUTH) and it killed me. Interestingly, they all started to jeer and snicker at the end when he started talking honestly about the way to world peace. He had a lot of anger in him, but he seemed like he really loved at heart. God that sounds cheesy, but all his shit about life being a momentary illusion seemed like a big key to getting past the bile.

"Pick up the gun"
"I don't want no trouble mister I'm just here to pick up some gingham for my wife. I don't even know what gingham is."

once while i was really high i tried to pass off the whole mini-golf bit as something that had actually happened to me but all my friends were too stoned to follow the bit

"What's that tiny policeman doing in our mirror?"

But I never had any use for what Hicks I've heard/seen; just seemed like dumb stoner humor to me.

Who is this and wat did you do with xhuxk exxy's body?

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CD (DISC 1)

1. Fevered Egos

2. I’m Talking To The Women Here

3. My Favorite New Kid

4. Marketing & Advertising

5. Artistic Roll Call

6. Orange Drink

7. Save Willie

8. Menu?

9. A Killer Idea

10. Goodbye You Lizard Scum

11. Summertime

12. Elvis*

13. The News

14. Confession Time (Cops)

15. Please Do Not Disturb*

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17. Girl Of Your Dreams

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19. What Is Pornography?

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21. Name & Address Not Withheld*

22. Beelzebozo*

23. Pussywhipped Satan

24. I Love My Job

25. Audience Member / Old Folks Home Manager*

26. Worst Audience Ever

27. The F Word

28. My Parents

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1. Drugs Have Done Good Things

2. Rockers Against Drugs Suck

3. We Live In A World

4. Drugs Have Done Good Things Part 2*

5. Ding Dong

6. Gays In The Military

7. Speaking Of Homosexuality

8. Children On Airplanes

9. Your Children Aren’t Special

10. Pro Life

11. Non-Smokers

12. Audience Member / Dental Assistant*

13. Smoking

14. Smoking Tastes Great*

15. Yul Brynner

16. Smoking In Heaven

17. Flying Saucer Tour

18. Burning Issues

19. Odd Beliefs

20. Kennedy & The Warren Commission

21. Handguns – UK vs. USA*

22. The Vision

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The Early Years – Stand Up

Houston, TX – 1981*

Houston, TX – 1984*

Indianapolis, IN – 1985*

Houston, TX (Part 1) – 1986*

Houston, TX (Part 2) – 1986*

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June, 1993*

October, 1993*

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Original Songs* - Written & Performed by Bill Hicks

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2. She’s A Woman

3. Hey Mama

4. The Road Can Be Hard

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7. Turn Your Mind Over To Your Heart

8. No Music In My Soul

9. Waiting To Meet You

10. I Never Really Cried For You

11. Outro Instrumental

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oh new box set. if you like that guy.

liked his stuff more when i was nineteen

aren't you, like, 20 now?

twenty-three

Dude had some moments, but his popularity with the stoner libertarian crowd makes me crazy.

i always kind of wish he'd have set his sights a little higher when it came to picking targets. he did seem to be moving toward that at the end of his life. (if you're gonna get THAT worked up, rush limbaugh and jesse helms are probably better choices than, you know, billy ray cyrus. a lot of the early stuff really is dude ranting [without a joke in sight] for 20 minutes straight about the terrible aesthetic choices made by 14 year old girls and how george michael just isn't as real as hendrix, man.)

(like that's the big cliche about him, but then you go back and listen to some of those earlier tapes ryko put out during the first wave of reissues, and yes, it is a grown man positively furious over the existence of debbie gibson.)

jay leno was a suitable target. the leno stuff made me laugh out loud! ha!

furious and also creepily interested in the space between their legs

I loved the guy

undeniably awesome

like the whole "marketing & advertising" bit just reads as so absurd to me now. i fist pumped to it when i was 17 but now i try to imagine a middle aged man really feeling that way about the concept of marketing and it's like damn dude

Ha well he must have been like the age I am now when he came up with that marketing routine, idk how I feel about that being 'middle-aged'

he was right about a lot of stuff

I still quail at hoe totally omnipresent advertising/marketing is, it's fucking obnoxious

how

Hicks was 32 when he died - fuck "middle aged". I think it's easy to be put off by the cult of Bill and to find fault with the lamer, more dated material (the rockist rants) but the political stuff was dynamite. The combination of savagery and idealism was so potent and so brave - the idealism braver than the savagery. He believed in something far bigger than making people laugh. I saw him in a tiny college bar in 1992 and he was electric. I remember him doing this long, serious monologue about society or politics or something and the whole room went very quiet and a bit confused and then he said, "Don't worry. There'll be some dick jokes in a minute." Those unexpected gear shifts were what made him classic.

I dont mind the rockist rants either.

they were only a small part of his routine anyway. to single him out for that is a bit ridiculous since you could feasibly point out attributes of many great comedians that you don't like.

his rants on Waco, Iraq, G. Bush I, marijuana, et al are classics....

his delivery was fantastic too.

Never been able to understand what the problem with "rockism" is anyways.

You surprise me, Bill

I found his funny, if it even was rockism. I mean he insulted Michael Bolton, who here is going to stan for him?

i guess the point is - he made fun of michael bolton - wow what a challenge

Fuck a challenge, was it funny?

blasting a barrel of fish with a machine gun can be hilarious if you do it right

at his best, the ridiculous depth of bill hicks' bile and frustration was part of the joke

(Xpost sorry)

also I cannot forgive the kind of prick who would describe Thatcher's Britain or even post-Thatcher Britain as a "socialist nightmare".

ILX folks really take incidental asides from an extended riff personally. That was somewhere near this rant wasn’t it?

I was in Australia, and the Australians had a big contingency at the Branch Davidian compound, and I’m from Texas so they were very curious. They were asking me all about it, you know. ‘Oh, this guy’s so weird, in’t he? This guy Koresh is so weird.’ And I was thinking, well, wait a minute. Frustrated rock musician with a messianic complex, armed to the teeth, and trying to fuck everything that moves. I don’t know how to tell you this: sounds like every one of my friends in Austin. I don’t know if this is gonna be an isolated incident.

(I just read the script, didn’t listen, but I’m guessing his take on an Aussie accent is atrocious. Y’all can go ahead and chalk another demerit on the list for that one too.)

Ok I guess “demerit” is specifically American lingo too. Fuck me.

been thinking a lot about this guy lately. what was his fucking problem

― frogbs

i don't know but whatever it is a lot of cis white dudes seem to have similar problems

carlin holds up surprisingly well imo, one of these days i might do a proper rewatch of "you are all diseased". he's doing a bit... this is something released in 2000 where he's complaining about airport security. and i'm thinking, "oh no...", but he turns it into, hey, you know what the real shitty thing about airport security is? it's systemically racist. (except he's funny when he says it because he's a comedian.) he starts out saying some kind of cringey white guy edgelord shit but he keeps twisting it _against_ white guy edgelords.

even when he says stupid shit, like complaining about vaccines (which is also something he does in that special), you're never quite _sure_ if he means it because it's like... wait, he's not _actually_ suggesting that kids should swim in raw sewage because it will "toughen them up", is he? if hicks did that routine i wouldn't question for a second that he genuinely meant it.