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Bill Hicks was an American stand-up comedian and social critic in the tradition of Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor. While he achieved only limited commercial success in his short lifetime, most of it in Great Britain, he is now regarded as one of the most influential American comedians of the twentieth century. With intellectual influences as wide-ranging as psychiatrist Carl Jung and linguist/political critic Noam Chomsky, Hicks married the middle-brow philosophical meandering of Woody Allen with the lacerating moral clarity of an Old Testament prophet. As a motion in the British House of Commons made on the tenth anniversary of his death declared, Hicks “may be mentioned as being worth[y] of inclusion with Lenny Bruce in any list of unflinching and painfully honest political philosophers.”
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Booth and Bertin don’t explain their claim Bill Hicks was an agent of evolution. Although he was, they're unable to make the case. The title, as the book, seems no more than words on pages. There’s much description, as many who grew up or worked with Hicks retell adventures, and little else. Pasting the book together must have been fun for those involved.
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Stand up comic Bill Hicks' death from cancer in 1994 abruptly curtailed a fast, upwardly moving career. This longtime resident of Austin, Tex. was a scathingly funny interpreter of America's (and the world at large) social failures and hypocrisies. Armed with a wicked sense of self-deprecation, his raps on growing up were very funny and often moving. During a routine, Hicks would grow more and more worked up about social injustice. Working himself into a lather, a palpable paranoia about the U.S. government that started off as a tangent could grow into a wildly spiraling improvisational tour de force.
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Bill Hicks died of cancer in 1994. But here in 2002, his career is doing quite well. A greatest hits CD, "Philosophy." A brand-new Harper Collins biography, "American Scream." Bill Hicks tributes at comedy festivals in Aspen and Montreal, another tribute in London, Hollywood screenplays in the works, all of it eight years after his death. The timing is weird, but not surprising.
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Bill Hicks was a chain-smoker, “who made fun of cancer,” says pop culture maven, Bruce McEwen. In 1990, Bill Hicks said, “I’ll smoke. I’ll cough. I’ll get the tumours. I’ll die. [Is it a] deal?” He did his part, “dieing of pancreatic cancer, at age 32, in 1994,” says McEwen.
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Bill was a libertarian. Period. Freedom of Speech was an absolute to him. Any kind of censorship was tantamount to Fascism. The Letterman episode appalled him because he felt that the money of Pro-Lifers enforced his silence, and coined the term 'The United States of Advertising'. He used a specific incident to illustrate this - there was a mass hysteria about the illegal practice of burning the US flag.
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