Shut up about Bill Hicks
This rather nicely sums up my feelings about the guy. I've sat and watched his DVDs with friends who were in absolute hysterics, while I just end up wondering what exactly they see in it.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 19:30,
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He had some good things to say
It's a pity he shouted and ranted them instead
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Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 19:34,
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the major irony of this article is that it's being said in Vice magazine of all places
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he's like Andy Kaufman to me
Great in their time, and influential, but those influenced refined their acts and we all moved on.
oh, and a bit too american.
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It was a long time ago
People were still shocked by anger and swearing; It was unique in his day. Unfortunately he changed comedy to the extent where his delivery now seems ill thought through and ranty, because it's lost its ability to shock. What's extreme to one generation is subsumed into the middle ground by the next.
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 19:47,
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The problem with that article was....
....there was no subtlety.
What you have to remember about Hicks is, his stuff is over 20 years old now. Of course it's dated, of course it's sledgehammer, of course it lacks the nuances of todays finest....the layers, structure and irony. But for fucks sake no-one was doing what he did back then. Pryor was on Crack, Martin had sold out, Williams had over coked, Pete and Dud were a thing of the past, shit a watered down Cosby was all we had. He stood up and critised America when no-one critised 'Merika.
And they hated him in America, we (in the UK) took him into our arms as soon as we heard him. The bitterness was fantastic. The hatred of all things "popular" was lovely. As far as I'm concerned he was an Englishman stuck in an American body in America. Just imagine the pain of that.
No doubt if he was still alive today he'd be in the next prequel to Marley and me, doing "Relentless" re-run tours and and nirorette ads...but I like to think he'd be doing acid under a bar light moaning about how music is shit nowadays. He did pave the way for Chris Rock, Loius CK and Dave Chapelle but no doubt you'd call them clumsy and un-subtle too.
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The only Dave is pushing things forward, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 21:39,
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^This^
The article is flat wrong.
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sir_spicious2000 Crap I've watched: www.filmplop.blogspot.com/, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 22:32,
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