Bill Hicks
How can I have missed this genius? I actually managed to not know anything about Bill Hicks until 2006 (12 years after his death) when I, for no apparent reason, felt like renting a stand-up DVD from my local film shop, and ended up with Relentless.
I have for a few years been a huge fan of Denis Leary, I liked No Cure for Cancer and loved Lock ‘n Load… but… it only took a few minutes of Relentless to understand where alot of Denis’ ideas came from… The day I saw Relentless, Denis fell quite a few steps on the ‘Ladder of Respect’.
Willow bought me the book ‘Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution‘ for christmas. It’s written (or more like put together) by Bill Hick’s lifelong friend Kevin Booth.
Even though the book made me cry toward the end, I wouldn’t advise anyone to read this book. Most parts of the book are very badly written, a lot feels very repetitive and most of the stories tell you more about the people who wrote them than Bill himself.
No. Don’t read the book. Buy the movies.
I love him. Mad genius.
Same here, I highly enjoyed Denis before I discovered where he got his stuff from. Bill Hicks is (as in rarely matched, still) one of the best stand ups.
Check out George Carlin if you happened to have missed him too (in chronological order).