'Have you ever heard of a comedian called Bill Hicks'
Yes.. fuck off.. I'm assuming you've just found a book in Asda and may have just purchased one of his DVD's in HMV , he was satirical , offensive and 'ahead of his time' , but fuck off.

Sorry for the rant - but recently i've had to deal with a lot of Bills' biggest fans. They found out who he was last year.

/sigh.
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 2:59, 6 replies)

What happened last year?
Was there a documentary or similar production, marking his life and work?

(I've known about his stuff since the 1990's, and listened to his back catalogue so much that it's no longer funny, just entertaining.)
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 4:26, closed)

I'm not sure what happened
but there was a recent influx or spurt of new fans, that suddenly knew it all.
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 5:55, closed)

So..
What's that, some people like something that you've liked for a longer time? What utter cunts they must be.
(tomegranate, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 13:56, closed)

it is a well known fact that the longer you have liked something the more uppity you can get with the so called 'fans' who have liked it for less time than you.
technically speaking if bill hicks were introduced to two people at the same time at the same gig, the person sitting closest to the stage gets to look down on the person sitting furthest from the stage because bill's (check it out, i am on first name terms with a dead dude) hilarious material reached their ears first. It's basic physics really.

It is for this reason that bill's biggest fan is the paedophile who saw him showering at the local swimming pool when he was 3.

You may be able to tell that i am a short term yet avid fan of mr hicks' work. We are all outranked by the paedophile though. Not only did he touch bill's pee pee once but he also has all the rare bootleg gigs on vinyl, cassette, cd, dvd and laser disc
(OTT, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 16:13, closed)

not trying to sound like some sparkly-eyed nouveau-"hippie" motherfucker or anything BUT:
Be amazed that anyone nowadays GETS Bill Hicks, and hope that it means that their brains are capable of evolution.

The only recent "event," Hicks-wise, of recent times that I know of, is when David Letterman, outta nowhere (don't know the motivation for the timing {a year ago or so?}, TOTALLY know the motivation for the deed), ***finally*** fucking aired Bill's last-ever TV performance, which had been cut at the time, and despite Letterman LYING HIS FUCKING FACE OFF to Mrs. Mary, Bill's mama, that "NOBODY KNEW" that Bill was dying of pancreatic fucking cancer (you smug lying midwestern corn-eating WEATHERMAN PRICK), blah blah blah --- HE knew, his producers knew, the fucking sales scum whose "clients" MIGHT HAVE objected to Bill's material (sooooo fucking bland nowadays, but then, a real skirt-flipper, apparently, to SOME people) probably knee!

So Letterman goes through this whole ass-kissing song-and-dance, Mrs. Mary sits there with those cold-blue-steel Texan Woman eyes (yup, they're all crazy in one way or another, but the good ones like Mary, Molly Ivins, Anne Richards & Janis Joplin --- GET SHIT *DONE*.) saying "Thenk yew," like ANYBODY buys THAT shit, they roll the clip, Letterman absolves himself of all wrongdoing and douchebaggery.

Other than that and new converts to TOOL, I can't think of any recent "awakenings" to the wonder that is Hicks. Absolutely astonished that people find him all by themselves and GET IT in this dumbed-down day and age, so hey, give 'em a minute to see if it sinks in, THEN, if it doesn't, tell 'em to fuck-off and die, preferably quickly and out of your spatter zone.

Not proclaiming myself an expert on anyfuckingthing, Hicks or etiquette or otherwise, but have been a devoted Hicks addict since 1989, when I first saw him agonizingly gnawing his way through 4 minutes on MTV's "Half-Hour Comedy Hour." Even through the pain & indignation, I could see that mind at work, and I was hooked. Never got to see him live, but I'd sell my neighbors' organs for the opportunity for time travel.
(AnntichristSCoulter, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 4:14, closed)

oy
"probably KNEE"

Yes, I *have* heard of proof-reading, thanks.

Shit, as the bumperstickers are wont to say, happens.
(AnntichristSCoulter, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 4:16, closed)