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As per Jumbo's suggestion, I felt it was time for a Bill Hicks thread. Post your favorite links, stories, articles, etc.

This thread is NSFW because of adult language.

Here's a couple of my faves:

On Rush Limbaugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F7Q7BkAbCk

"PLAY FROM YOUR ****IN' HEART!!!!!!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkA6zugNMQ

On Abortion:

Positive Drug Story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX1CvW38cHA&feature=related

Here's a documentary from BBC Radio:

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=bill+hicks&edition=i&go.x=40&go.y=13

Click on the top link.

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Mufumonk

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My favorite bit of his because it's 100% true:

It's Just a Ride

The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey – don't worry, don't be afraid ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up. We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. Jesus murdered; Martin Luther King murdered; Malcolm X murdered; Gandhi murdered; John Lennon murdered; Reagan.... wounded. But it doesn't matter, because – it's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

This is another gem:

Marketing

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rincewind

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Here's a video you may have seen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INarE1WraFA

To be fair to Leary, though, I steal jokes from Bill Hicks all the time. One of the ones I like to use on people:

"You look like you were born from weak sperm . . . like your dad was jacking off and your mom sat on it at the last minute."

Yeah, but you don't get paid as a professional comedian... at least, not that I know of.

I always like his bit about wasting entire civilizations in the hair around his navel. :laugh:

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Here's a video you may have seen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INarE1WraFA

To be fair to Leary, though, I steal jokes from Bill Hicks all the time. One of the ones I like to use on people:

"You look like you were born from weak sperm . . . like your dad was jacking off and your mom sat on it at the last minute."

He didn't just steal the jokes though. He stole Hicks entire persona. Leary used to be some sweater vest wearing failure of a comic till he ripped Hicks entire act. They were roommates/friends for awhile till Leary released "There's No Cure for Cancer".

Question: Why is Denis Leary a star while Bill Hicks is obscured in anonymity? Answer: Because there's "No Cure for Cancer".

The entire angry comic thing is just an act for Leary. Hicks was really like that.

During a 2003 roast of Denis Leary, comedian Lenny Clarke, a friend of Leary's, said there was a carton of cigarettes backstage from Bill Hicks with the message, "Wish I had gotten these to you sooner." This joke was cut from the final broadcast.
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Always good to see the truly deserving get props.

Hicks is my ALL-TIME favorite comic, smart, acerbic, intensely aware of the hypocisies all around us. His comedy wasn't just hilarious, it was thought provoking, and therefore dangerous.

A lot of people to this day still question the circumstances surrounding his death. High Times even ran a conspiracy theory article about this a few years back.

Brilliant comic genius...RIP.

"If he thought he could fly, why didn't he take off from the ground?"

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Always good to see the truly deserving get props.

Hicks is my ALL-TIME favorite comic, smart, acerbic, intensely aware of the hypocisies all around us. His comedy wasn't just hilarious, it was thought provoking, and therefore dangerous.

A lot of people to this day still question the circumstances surrounding his death. High Times even ran a conspiracy theory article about this a few years back.

Brilliant comic genius...RIP.

"If he thought he could fly, why didn't he take off from the ground?"

I don't find him that funny honestly, but I find him to be absolutely brilliant and thought provoking, as you mentioned. It is a shame though that he's not around. I had heard about him a few times over the years, but never watched his work until about two months ago for the first time.

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A friend of mine introduced me to Bill Hicks one night on our way to a party. It was "Arizona Bay." When the CD started and I heard that slow, kind of porn-movie-esque music that starts the album I was a little incredulous. Then when he started talking about "Hell-A" I asked my friend what kind of bull**** he was trying to pull on me. By the time I heard about officer Coon and officer ******-hater explaining in court that if you play the tape of the Rodney King beating backwards you actually see the cops helping King up and sending him on his way (dragging their giant balls in a wheelbarrow behind them to take the stand) I was a Hicks fan for life.

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A friend of mine introduced me to Bill Hicks one night on our way to a party. It was "Arizona Bay." When the CD started and I heard that slow, kind of porn-movie-esque music that starts the album I was a little incredulous. Then when he started talking about "Hell-A" I asked my friend what kind of bull**** he was trying to pull on me. By the time I heard about officer Coon and officer ******-hater explaining in court that if you play the tape of the Rodney King beating backwards you actually see the cops helping King up and sending him on his way (dragging their giant balls in a wheelbarrow behind them to take the stand) I was a Hicks fan for life.

"'Scuse me, 'scuse me. Man with big balls has just been acquitted."

He roped me in with his rant on Jesse Helms:

"You know what would make tightening my belt a little easier? If I could tighten it around Jesse Helms' scrawny little chicken-neck. Ahhhhhh I feel better about the sacrifice right now. You ****ing tobacco pushing mother-****er!! You are the worst ****ing drug dealer in the ****ing world!! You scrawny, right-wing, fear-mongering piece of.....sucker of Satan's ****! YOU SUCK SATAN'S **** YOU ****ING CHICKEN NECK LITTLE ****ING CRACKER!! I'd tighten my belt if that were the case. I'd eat bologna for a week. ... I'd sacrifice."
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