Bill Hicks
 

I'm long overdue in getting everything he's ever made, but I'm doing it right now. Listening to "Dangerous"

"My daddy died for that flag"
"Really?... I bought mine. You know, they sell them at K-Mart.."

Re: Bill Hicks
 

You've done yourself a great service sir.

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he is amazing. my favorite clip of his is floating around on the internet somewhere. it is terrible quality, fimled with an old school camcorder at a tiny club. some lady is wasted and starts hassling him. you can't hear exactly what she is saying but Bil finally blows a fuse. he walks over to her and just starts screaming "i am a dumb, drunk [censored] cvnt! everyone look at me, im a drunk whore, etc".

ive never seen someone get pwned so bad.

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"I'm Bill Hicks and I'm dead now.. cancer didn't kill me, a bunch of non-smokers kicked the [censored] outta me. I tried to run, they were faster than I. I tried to hide, they heard me wheezing. Some of them smelled me.."

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my favorite all time, in my eyes nobody compares to hicks. when i was 12 my cousin (at the time he was 23) worked at the improv and when the comedians that he felt were worth watching would come in town he would have me come through the back door and listen (i couldn't see the stage) from the back. to this day i will never hear a comedian that killed an audience like him, he would freeze everyone when he wanted to, he would make you laugh when he wanted to. he controled you. this is actually what started my obsession with stand-up.

the bill hicks "live" dvd that came out about 9 months ago is pretty good, its just a compilation of the stuff you have seen before. i have every cd he has ever put out posthumously (obviously) but a week ago i bought his newest oxford live double disc cd...its not really any different than the single disc oxford live cd except a little longer with material from previous sets.

my favorite moment from hicks isn't one that i have heard or seen but one that i read in a book on his life ( American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story ). it was when he was doing a show and he had a deaf women in the front row with a another lady signing what he was saying to her. well bill got on a roll to where he was talking really fast and got up to the lady who was signing's face and starting screaming at the top of his lungs, "you sure you can keep up with this dumb [censored]! come on you bitch speed up or she's gonna want her money back, don't let me down like the greasy elephant does over over again (then he starts making these crazy sounds in the microphone), what? you don't have a sign for that uh?" basically he just goes off on this deaf women and her signer (is that what you call her?). "i am available for children's parties as well if anyone is interested...just ask for beezelbozo, the devil clown =)"

i recommend that book in the link.

favorite quote: "you have to admit christians do some weird things, like wearing crosses around their necks...i mean when jesus comes back i think that's the last thing he is gonna [censored] wanna see ya know? its like going up to jackie onassis with a rifle pendant around your neck...just think of john...just thinking of john"

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he is amazing. my favorite clip of his is floating around on the internet somewhere. it is terrible quality, fimled with an old school camcorder at a tiny club. some lady is wasted and starts hassling him. you can't hear exactly what she is saying but Bil finally blows a fuse. he walks over to her and just starts screaming "i am a dumb, drunk [censored] cvnt! everyone look at me, im a drunk whore, etc".

ive never seen someone get pwned so bad.

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Later in that set he begins getting heckled by people in the back shouting "Freebird!". He begins questioning the hecklers, building himself into a rant about the peon masses - "Hitler had the right idea, he was just an underachiever!".

He died way too young.

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he is amazing. my favorite clip of his is floating around on the internet somewhere. it is terrible quality, fimled with an old school camcorder at a tiny club. some lady is wasted and starts hassling him. you can't hear exactly what she is saying but Bil finally blows a fuse. he walks over to her and just starts screaming "i am a dumb, drunk [censored] cvnt! everyone look at me, im a drunk whore, etc".

ive never seen someone get pwned so bad.

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Later in that set he begins getting heckled by people in the back shouting "Freebird!". He begins questioning the hecklers, building himself into a rant about the peon masses - "Hitler had the right idea, he was just an underachiever!".

He died way too young.

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yeah, I have this bootleg on disc somewhere, its [censored] awesome.

Its really sad he died so young, I cant even imagine what he would have to say about the state of the world today.

I know a lot of people like to call a lot of people "genius" but in the case of bill hicks, its actually true

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Its really sad he died so young, I cant even imagine what he would have to say about the state of the world today.


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I think it's almost a kindness, that he died not having to witness the trainwreck that is the 21st century; I can only imagine how full of rage he'd be, 24/7. Then again, it would make for spectacularly entertaining listening.

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The Greatest Ever

"I was in Nashville, Tennesee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me: "<smack smack smack smack> Hey, whatchoo readin' for?"

Isn't that the weirdest [censored] question you've ever heard? Not what am I readING, but what am I reading *for*? Well, godammit, ya stumped me! Why do I read? Well... hmmm... I dunno... I guess I read for a lot of reasons, and the main one is so I don't end up being a [censored] waffle waitress."

"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 [censored], what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?"

Re: Bill Hicks
 

Bill Hicks is amazing.

"Hey buddy... we're christians and we didn't like what you said back there"
"really? Forgive me."

So I'm hanging from a tree..