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Re: Bill Hicks
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:55 pm
by Holden MacGroyn
Was fucking brilliant.
Died a few years back.
Re: Bill Hicks
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:00 am
by Illinoisblue
The best comedian ever.
Check out the DVD Totally Bill Hicks - an absolute masterpiece.
Also,
www.billhicks.com.
Died in 1994
Re: Bill Hicks
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 3:57 am
by ichabod_crane
Word for word on some of his material, absolutely shameless.
Bill's quote when asked about Denis Leary sums it up really, one word, "Donovan".
Re: Bill Hicks
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:01 am
by Ben Dover
very good. Little known fact: Remember Newman & Baddiel's groundbreaking Wembley Arena shows? Who was the support act? One Mr Bill Hicks!! Gone but not forgotten. Coincidentally, during my recent move I found an old documentry on Bill Hicks, made just after he died from liver cancer. Would you like to see it Stoney?
Re: Bill Hicks
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:57 pm
by Marblehead Johnson
"Rant In E-Minor" is probably his best work - whilst he was recording the shows, he knew that he was going to die.
His sketch about Jay Leno is amazing - "His brain's splew out on the back wall forming an NBC Peacock, cos he's a corporate man to the bitter fucking end!!"
I was lucky enough to go to the 10th Anniversary celebration in London this year - they showed loads of material never seen in the UK before including the "Outlaw Comic" documentary that only went out on cable in America.
Genius.
Re: Bill Hicks
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:59 pm
by Marblehead Johnson
The book "Love All The People" is well worth getting, contains loads of his routines, interviews etc.
Re: Bill Hicks
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:16 pm
by Illinoisblue
Have you checked out
www.sacredcow.com?
There's a number of Bill Hicks video clips there including one I'd never seen before entitled 'Bill loooses it'.
Bill's doing his JFK routine when he's heckled by a drunk woman who calls out 'you suck'.
Bill turns on her angrily, calling her 'a fucking cunt' and orders her to leave.
He really does lose it!