6 years ago. Is #19 on Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time - The Montreal Gazette, March 28, 1994
I read for many reasons, one of which is so that I don't end up as a ******* waffle waitress!
When?' The Tool songs and the Hicks bits that inspired them are presented in the Spotify Playlist below: Leonard Cohen’s Estate Responds To Use Of ‘Hallelujah’ At RNC [asked where a comedian should draw the line] There are no lines. His "Angry Comedian" persona and smoking Think about it before you post nonsense. I thank you. I love going to the movies. He introduced the band before their performance in Irwindale, California in August 1993, notoriously deadpanning to the audience that he needed help finding a lost contact lens, to which many obliged. So I'm watching Evolution.
"Well, I'm glad I reached you." There are no lines. Lived in New York City. Welsh band Super Furry Animals dedicated their album Fuzzy Logic to him. Though he generally disliked television, he was a huge fan of "The Simpsons," once remarking to a friend that he would like to live in Springfield, and Krusty The Klown's persona as a counter-cultural stand-up comedian in the ninth season episode "Last Temptation of Krust" is a tribute to him. It's great to be here. This redneck comes up to me and says "You were real funny, I was about to spit!" Ironically, afterwards he was called back and asked to do another performance; his response was: "I don't think I could learn to juggle in that short a time." Less than a week after his burial, he lost the American Comedy Award for Favorite Male Comedian to Carrot Top, whom he ridiculed during his final performances. I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" Among Hicks's biggest fans were the members of the band Tool. This song is most likely about L Ron Hubbard. At his final show: "This is the material, by the way, that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for the past 15 years. Gee, I wonder why we're hated the world over? ya think if jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a ******* cross? This is a negative song, and Tool loved Hicks. In two brief decades, Hicks worked his way up the sweat-stained comedy ladder to national exposure on The Tonight Show, Late Show with David Letterman and an HBO cable special. Bill Hicks was regarded as one of the greatest comedians who ever lived by those who saw him. He also had a strong following in the UK and was scheduled to have his own television show on British TV when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Then this hillybilly comes up and says "Weeeell lookee here, looks like we got ourselves a reader!" Bill Hated LA and the arizona bay reference is from the album title by Bill Hicks. He often joked about The Bible Belt in his acts. Fucking moron."
I'd say 'Yeah? Folks, I could have done that, walked around being a millionaire and franchising myself but no, I had to have this weird thing about trying to illuminate the collective unconscious and help humanity.
References to the Eastern third eye philosophy I hate patriotism...I can't stand it. A lot of christians wear crosses. Dead at 32, the enigmatic Hicks was admired, reviled and misunderstood. We're a virus with shoes, okay? I say, erase all the lines. "Come here", he says "I want you to meet my wife and sister!" What am I reading FOR? Their son was Pauly Shore. Tool's 1996 album "Aenema" includes many Hicks references, including a picture in the liner notes, a sound clip of a Hicks routine before the final track "Third Eye", and references to Hicks's "Arizona Bay" routine in the title track. He had more brains than Kinison and was funnier than Bruce. [Cheers] Kill yourselves! That's all we are. At 13, he would sneak out of his suburban house to hustle his way onto open-mike night rosters. We were resonating similar concepts. Look at these fat Americans in the front row - 'Why doesn't he just hit fruit with a hammer?' bullshit. His final appearance (which he had hoped would be his final message to America before he died, as his cancer diagnosis was known only to friends and family) was recorded but cut out of the final broadcast at the last minute. The club was the Comedy Store owned by Sammy and Mitzi Shore. Gee, no-one's ever asked me that. Born in Georgia but raised in Houston since the age of 7, this self-described "Prince of Darkness" was compelled to use the comedy stage as his philosophic soapbox.