Was this guy the greatest comedian of the 20th century? Its so funny watching his video, with whats going on in the world today and the relivent points he makes. Wonder what he would have made of the war and yet another chinlesss bush in the white house. :m: Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
hell yes....Bill Hicks was the funniest...hell even though he is dead he still is the funniest comedian ever and never sold out....Bill Hicks should have been alive for 9/11 because he would have come out with a CD on 9/14 probably
R.I.P Bill. God if this guy was still alive, he'd have made mince meat out of ol' Georgey boy. With the amount of material these PNAC monkeys would be gifting, Bill would be having a field dayPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Like so many dead performers, Hicks keeps on getting more and more popular. Kids who were only 6 when he died are discovering his work. I like to think he´s holed up in a motel somewhere with Elvis Presley, and JFK´s alien lovechild. My favorite bit was the Terence McKenna-inspired piece about how psychedelic mushrooms were the catalyst for man's evolution from shit-flinging tree-dwelling monkeys to outer space explorers. Those of us who were mesmerized & inspired by his political & spiritual raving lost a great one. He truly was the "thinking man's" comedian/philosopher. And the truly sad part of it all, is that there is nobody – nobody – that has taken his place (although Lewis Black occasionally shows promise). There isn't anyone who talks as frankly about drugs as Hicks did. Nobody who can give a Chomsky-like lecture that is actually hilarious. And nobody who can make an audience laugh while giving them a new spiritual outlook. Why the hell is that? :m: Peace.
Yeah Bill Hicks is the best. I have "Arizona Bay" in my car and I listen to it sometimes. My favorite is about the fundamentalist christians who think the world is only 3000 years old. "Uh ho ho ho ho...I'm a prankster god...we'll see who believes in me now!"
hell yeah goofy.. i couldn't agree more.. hicks has always been and will always be my favorite.. i agree lewis black is close but no one will ever take hicks' place.. what i love most about hicks is his frank honest outlook on drugs and religion... he speaks for me and many others.. remember the last few shows he performed while he was dying? he would put his hand on his side, over the area where his cancer was growing.. he was in a lot of pain but continued to perform with the same passion and conviction.. it was amazing.. he was a GENIUS: "Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you." "Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye." "I don't do drugs anymore... than say, the average touring funk band." "This is your brain. I've seen a lot of weird shit on drugs. I have never ever ever ever EVER looked at a fucking egg and thought it was a brain." "Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?" Hell yeah bill.. RIP
Hicks liked to shock and was occasionally quite perceptive with it, but he was only ever trying to live up to the 'rebel without a cause' image of his anarchic heroes. Unfortunately, Hicks was also an uneducated and shallow hypocrite. It's a pity that he died so young, because he could have matured into something more.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
