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Bill Hicks: Sam Kinison
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Although he had been deceased for over a decade when this video was released, Bill Hicks' reputation had grown to the point that he was considered by some in the same league with other legendary stand-ups like George Carlin. Sane Man, recorded at a show from 1989, presents the newly clean and sober Hicks delivering the pointed social commentary that made him a comedian's comedian. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
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Considered by many to be one of the sharpest social satirists/comedians to have ever graced the standup stage, Bill Hicks offered audiences something more than simple laughs -- he offered a new perspective. Always pushing boundaries in hopes of making his audience question the status quo, Hicks' dangerous brand of standup drew comparisons to such comedy legends as Sam Kinison and Lenny Bruce, despite the fact that many Americans never heard of him during his short lifetime. If comedy were a weapon, Hicks' wit would have been a ten-ton nuclear warhead.
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[A]t the same time, Bill Hicks was perhaps the smartest, most thoughtful, far seeing and deep feeling of all American comedians. He looked down at politics from a great height and saw that it was bad, and said so. He looked up and met God (okay, so he was on mushrooms) and saw that was good, and said so. And though he defined humanity as “a virus, with shoes,” he tried to bring Enlightenment to every person at every show.
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In 1983, after weeks of playing clubs and gigs in which the right-wing patriotic audiences didn't really get his leftist-libertarian humour, Bill began to struggle. Drink and Drugs seemed to help him, enabling him to express himself more fully, he would get angry on stage, argue heatedly with the audience often mocking their traditional attitudes and hypocritical beliefs, but he could be funny at the same time, throwing gags into his arguments, making the audience laugh, but ... making them think. Bill claimed that his ambition was to become enlightened, and together with Kevin Booth, Hicks got into meditation, astrology, and tried to develop telepathy.
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This Entry will try and attempt to explain Bill's humour in the context of his world view. This Researcher (and a whole bunch of others) thinks that Bill Hicks was utterly brilliant. Not only was he gut-bustingly funny, at the same time he presented a literate and stimulating point of view which remains absolutely inspirational and valid today. The following blocked quotes are direct quotes from the man himself.
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