Sunday, November 21, 2010

Bill Hicks (Comedian)

I apologize for not posting anything the last couple days. My Thanksgiving break just started so my friends and I drove from our university to home (northern california to southern california) and that took about 14 apologize hours. Now that I'm down here I'll keep updating daily.

Todays Post is about the comedian Bill Hicks, I had never heard of him until my friend showed me his standup a couple days ago. He is hilarious. His humor challenges mainstream beliefs and aims to "enlighten people to think for themselves". He is also good friends with the singer of the psycedelic rock band "tool", Maynard. I could give you an in depth article about his life but I doubt you guys would read it so I'm just going to post one of his stand up shows live and you can make up your mind about your view on him.



And here is a tool song that uses some recordings of him in the song



I strongly recommend going to youtube and listening to all the parts of the Bill Hicks Philosophy standup if you enjoyed the first video.

16 comments:

  1. lol Bill hicks is great! Good post man.

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  2. i just love this guy.. he's brilliant

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  3. yeah he's funny. i didnt post for like a week

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  4. Bill Hicks is one of the greatest comedians along with George Carlin :)

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  5. lol, and he doesn't lol, that's what makes people con't stop laughing...

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  6. yeah bill hicks wazs funny, but doug stanhope is better. if you laugh at bill, you'll shit bricks with doug

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  7. i like his impression of the war on drugs... smokin a joint yelling "honey, get me another beer, we got a war to win!"

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  8. I had always heard the Dennis Leary stole his material from Hicks, but I didn't believe it. Then I listened to Hicks and...yep, he stole his material. Hicks is funnier too :\

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  9. Bill Hicks sound familiar but I can't exactly say this wasn't the first time I'v heard of him.

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  10. I really love Bill Hicks, his earlier shows are awesome.

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  11. that Hicks guy sure is funny but the tool clip made this post awesome :P

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  12. I have seen him live. Very funny and insightful.

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