26-07-2009, 04:57 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Fl9ZVJ7B8
Love it!
Yeah, Hicks was uncommonly substantial for a stand up comic. And he died unusually young, at the age of 32. Pancreatic cancer. I'm not saying I think it's related to his hard hitting social commentary--then again I'm open to the possibility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks
"He would invite his audiences to challenge authority and the existential nature of "accepted truth"...
”Much of Hicks' routine involved direct attacks on mainstream society, religion, politics and consumerism. Asked in a BBC interview why he cannot do a routine that appeals "to everyone", he said that such an act was impossible, counteracting it with a comment an audience member once made to him, namely "we don't come to comedy to think!", to which his reply is "gee, where do you go to think? I'll meet you there!"
Hicks would end some of his shows — and especially those being recorded in front of larger audiences as albums — with a mock "assassination" of himself on stage, making gunshot sound effects into the microphone and falling to the ground.
Bill Hicks talked often in his performances about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, mocking the Warren Report and the official version of a "lone nut assassin", pointing out flaws in the official story and how it couldn't possibly have happened that way. There are many clips of his talking to audiences about the JFK assassination on YouTube and other websites."
Dawn first told me about Hicks and I've always been grateful. More people need to know about him.