Bill Hicks wasn't just a masterful comedian, he was also a truth teller who wanted to make the audience understand the real problems of the world that needed to face. He always had a speech near the end of every gig that he made.
Bill Hicks was a real one. I didn't discover him until late 2000's but his records are still poignant today. Thorny around the edges with a big heart and intellect
I was born a decade after he passed and only discovered him a few years ago but he’s firmly in my top 5 and sometimes makes his way into my top 3 every once in a while
I used to listen to Arizona Bay on cassette on a loop back in the 90s. Still the greatest set I've ever heard. It wasn't just the material, but also the rhythm of it. He was a musician of comedy. Absolute goat.
The fact that he was making jokes about psychedelics and stoned ape theory way before anyone else was really looking into it just amazes me. He discussed things that were not only way before his time but is still discussed and is relevant today. RIP Bill Hicks 🙏
The people who don't like or get him lack the cognitive ability to recognise being in the presence of a prophetic genius. Not getting Bill says more about them not him.
The news by Bill- " Today a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather" LEGEND
This might sound a bit cheesy but i was a young teenager when i first started watching Bill hicks and he completely changed the way i looked at the world, unfortunately i never got to see him to my regret but he's someone that changed me for the better and i will always be grateful for that. RIP Goat boy x
Yesss man, same here! It was a mind changer to hear his thoughts! It helped shaped my thoughts growing up for sure! I wanna say RIP but we are all one and there is no such thing as death!
I was Lucky enough to spend a night and day with Bill when he played a university gig in the UK in 1993 I know nothing of his comedy and we just strolled around Newcastle. I immediately noticed is inquisitive nature and smart questions but also a shyness and intensity that made you warm to him?. I took him to his hotel and then 10pm BOOm! He came on stage blew 900 people away It was the most amazing thing I had every seen! Afterwards,I felt awkward in his presence such was his incendiary talent and originality He generously invited me to a gig in London Dominion theatre a fortnight later. Stupidly,because of a girl I can’t remember and being a broke student I rang and sent thanks but did not go What an idiot We connected A year later he was no longer with us Thank you Bill you changed my life
Bill truly brought the gospel of American stand-up to the UK. I always think that with so many other great active comics in the US his contributions overseas kinda get overlooked. Huge part of his legacy.
Richard Linklater bio pic “in production”. I’m very curious to see who plays Bill MF Hicks… Feel like I could do it for some reason… I’m 36 from Texas and believe and know ever word he’s recorded…. Hopes Mark Wahlberg gets it….
@@randypanthegoatboy2 my #1 favorite special of Anyone. “YOU’RE RIGHT! YOU’RE RIGHT! Not that fuckers that wanna tell you how to think! YOU’RE FUCKING RIGHT!!!”
Yeah, and the saddest part is that whole "ranting about being a smoker" shtick is forever associated with DENNIS LEARY because of the MTV Commercials, then shows and specials. He straight up STOLE THAT SHIT from Bill. Seems like everyone kind of knows now, but it still pisses me off because I liked Bill first and saw DL's theft in real time. The brainless masses from that Era remember Leary, but only a few know Hicks or saw him in the AENIMA album cover and that's all they know of him.
I loved him when I was a kid after watching a British film called Human Traffic. I felt like he really opened my mind and started me on the path of "don't believe everything you hear, find out for yourself". He was very popular in the UK, as I understood it he wasn't as well liked in the US.
You loved him because was an American sell-out who told British people that Americans are really stupid and dumb. It made you feel some kind of pride or covered some sort of insecurity. It's not your fault, you were a kid. It's his fault for selling out to that lowest bar of UK humor.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wqqpspmnn2o.html YES BRUVA great freaking movie and great scene! I watch this many times a year for the nostalgia!
So happy Bill finally having mainstream recognition....Bill entered my life when I was 15....i'm 40 now...i know by memory every show they shaped my life...i love him...so happy for him and us...
Sam Kinison was legendary. It's a shame so many people don't know him today. He skyrocketed to fame, & was forgotten almost as quickly. It's crazy to think he was actually a preacher before doing comedy, then going on to be both a movie star & rock musician.
Bill hicks was a very cool comic. He led me to discover Joe rogan ironically lol. And of course the master that is doug Stanhope. It all started for me with Hicks and that's why I love and miss him.
@@earthling273 “I’m not Bill Hicks. _I played the role of Bill Hicks.”_ He LITERALLY, multiple times, has admitted to playing the role of Bill Hicks… But even people who hear that can’t even understand what he’s saying. It’s incredible.
I was waiting for them to reference Stanhope's bit about artists being "out of shit" and dying young when Sam brought up that aspect of 'legendary status'. Especially his part about Lenny Bruce having some crappy podcast if he were still alive.
@@NewNormalWorldOrder there is literally video of Bill Hicks and Alex Jones both at the Waco Seige, they look nothing alike and Bill is exponentially smarter than Alex fucking Jones
Hearing Hicks as a young kid made me feel like I could have my own idea of how things were, I always feel so grateful for stumbling across Hicks, Carlin, Kineston and Richard Prior when I was young enough to just soak in the magic of their words.
If I could bring back any comedian from the dead to do a one hour special about our society's culture today it would definitely be Bill Hicks and George Carlin.
I only discovered Bill Hicks a decade after his death. His live at the Dominion Theatre in London was a masterpiece. I once read of Bill Hicks that he was one of the few comedians that could pause and silently reflect between jokes and the audience would keep their mouths shut in anticipation of what he was going to say next. The article said that it was because they felt like they were learning something new and wondrous...not just being made to laugh for simple entertainment. I look back at "Live at the Dominion" and see exactly what the article talks about. I think if he had more time in the spotlight Hicks would have led or at least been at the forefront of some sort of social movement! He's sorely missed.
Bill is my favorite comedian of all time. I get he's not for everyone, but those people are the ones who need to listen to him, like REALLLY listen to what he's saying, the most.
The people who don't like or get him lack the cognitive ability to recognise being in the presence of a prophetic genius. Not getting Bill says more about them not him.
I grew up in the deep south (southwest Georgia) and I completely "got" Hicks the minute I first heard him. I tried to turn everyone on to him. However, his shtick with the whole condescension ended up becoming a little too much. Like sickly sweet foods that are too rich LOL.....I wanted him to do more pure jokes, but then he got sick and died.
The news by Bill- " Today a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather" LEGEND
Pretty sure Bill would have ripped the mask off and shown his true identity after that circus of a trial on Sandy Hook... "and I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for..."
You kidding me right? Then what comedian is suited for adults? As the guy said whoever said he is overrated has to be out of his mind. Bill's last special, thats very poor quality, its not even a special per se but his last more than hour long performance its here on RU-vid is in my top 10 performances of all time and I got Louis CK and Bill Burr in there.
I found out about hicks 14 years ago when I was getting into conspiracies. Hicks had a way of making you feel like you weren’t alone in watching the collapse of the western world and made it numerous.
Bill Hicks is a legend. First and foremost he was a social and political commentator who made his points in the comedy arena. I think it gave him a platform to point out the many things that were/are wrong in our culture. To any who don't think he was funny all i have to say to you is Buick scud!
The people who don't like or get him lack the cognitive ability to recognise being in the presence of a prophetic genius. Not getting Bill says more about them not him. "Looky here, we got ourselves a reader" 🤣
The news by Bill- " Today a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather" LEGEND
The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. Bill Hicks
Legitimately some of the wisest and truest words ever spoken. There's not much to be proud of nowadays as a Brit, but it does warm my heart a little to know that Hicks really found his audience over here. A legend who mastered and transcended comedy. He'll always be missed.
The fact that someone from Texas like Bill Hicks was a GREAT inspiration for someone like me in Israel, way way back in the 90s(!) - says a lot about the magnitude of this guy. Hicks thought us all how to think properly.
The Lenny Bruce take is really spot on. His stuff may not sound great by today's standards but for his time it was groundbreaking and that doesn't disqualify him as a legend today just because his material sounds dated by today's standards.
Kinison is still my favorite. I was 6 or 7 when I saw him on the Dangerfield special. The bit about sending people food opened my mind to start questioning the world. I highly recommend watching the documentary that his friends and family did on him. "Sam Kinison: Why Did We Laugh?"
He was a crazy fucker. Bill’s producer Kevin told me that one time Kinison told him how much better he felt since he stopped doing drugs - and then inhaled a monster line of coke!
Bill Hicks is one of the greatest underrated comics of all time!! Everyone should have to listen to Bill Hicks ablums he had such a meaningful point to his comedy. Truly missed!!
Bill Hicks is drastically overrated. Good yes. But he's not as funny as literally every time Joe Rogan goes on a tangent with a comedian on his podcast.
Bill Hicks would have been like a George Carlin he would have just kept getting wiser and wiser and putting out more stuff and observing the world all the way to the end high quality Style if he would have lived to be old.
Real life changing comedy man. You can't underestimate his impact on society. Sowing seeds. He is now an archetype. Unrecognizable maybe now in the outer realms but its hard to put a face to it all when the light start pulsating.
One time I said to Bill “Did you know your next Austin gig is gonna be the day after Andrew Dice Clay’s?” And he shot back “Of course! I’m the antidote!”
Almost 20 years ago, a friend, introduced me to Bill. Still to today, he is a THE comedian for me. Still quote him all the time, still hear him echoe in my head all the time, and think how would he joke and bring light to all the governamental and social BS we are witnessing these days. And the way he ended his set, his "dream"...Those are the guys That should be in power, but like every person that Should be in power, he would never want any bit of it.
It's sad but the people that should be in power don't want it and won't go within 50 miles of it. Leaving us with power hungry pathalogically greedy psychopaths serving themselves and bettering their position 😔
The news by Bill- " Today a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather" LEGEND
I feel like Hicks never gets the credit he deserves. People always cite other people as the GOAT, but for me, he is the one. Not Carlin, not Kinison, Hicks! He was just on another level.
@@D4n1t0o For sure. I just dont know how a guy with no actual jokes, is considered one of the GOATs of stand up comedy. Silly me, I thought telling jokes were part of stand up comedy...not just giving pompous lectures that meander & go no where. But hey! To each their own, like you said. I guess Sam Harris or Ben Shapiro are just political comedians 🤣
@@SwizzleStickMcGee did you watch this clip at all? They quoted like 6 hicks jokes and they were all different types. I can’t imagine what you find funny if none of those struck
@@spaceghostterps Bill Hicks: "Every drug story I've ever had...was pretty positive! "There's Billy! Look! He thinks he's a pig! ::oink oink::" Mitch Hedberg: "I used to do drugs...I still do. But I used to, too." Similar joke...one is hollow, corny nonsense that relies on funny noises to make the children giggle - the other is brilliant writing. You're an easily impressed mouth breather, with bad taste. Lmaoo
I was loving Joe more each day since discovering him, but that respect just took a huge leap when he started bigging up the best comedian in living history who people miss the point of because they too dumb to get him when it mattered. RIP Bill, no compromise ever. All that great music you all love to listen to? By musicians REAL fkin high on drugs. For calling out the hypocrisy. He was the master
Indeed. The people who don't like or get him lack the cognitive ability to recognise being in the presence of a prophetic genius. Not getting Bill says more about them not him. "Looky here, we got ourselves a reader" 😅 rip Bill
@@suedenim6590 What was great was when you’d see people in Bill’s audience whose ideology was diametrically opposed to his but who were there because they knew they’d laugh their asses off. Here in Austin I never saw him get anything but “friendly fire” heckling (from drunk friends who thought they were “helping” the act…)
Bill Hicks is my favorite because of his contrast. While his material was pitch black in tone and brutally honest, his underlying philosophy was that of hope and loving all people the same. His light will shine on for many years❤️
@@D4NK1 I honestly forget that Joe is a "comedian" most of the time. I honestly don't think he's ever said anything on his podcast that has made me laugh. I still like the podcast, but man is Joe's comedy rough.
@@beeman4266 totally agree. it wouldn't be so bad though if he didn't constantly talk about all the effort he puts in to "his craft". Imagine if he didn't put all that effort in
Unfortunately it took me years to find hicks as my parents were similar to his. If they caught me listening to that “worldly” stuff I would have been grounded for weeks.
It's not an opinion...it happened. Lmao There's an episode of Opie & Anthony where Louis CK talks about how Dennis Leary's most well known bit of all time....was stolen from Louis CK. Dennis Leary basically exists...because Louis CK & Bill Hicks created him.
The movie the zeitgeist introduced me to Bill Hicks and I’m every great full for that. He was before my time but lucky for me he was way ahead of his time. His bit on jfk and the sniper pendant OMG. Or on the gulf war and politicians arming the world. Timeless bits that will make you laugh and loathe the world we live in. There isn’t a comic alive today brave enough or bright enough to touch Bill Hicks.
Hick's 'Play From Your Fucking Heart' is still my favorite moment from comedy that's almost not comedy. The sheer wtf, balls out insanity of it is still a thing of beauty.
Bill Hicks one of most brilliant fearless comedian the world have ever seen. He is definitely ahead of his time. It's good that Joe Rogen admire him but he can't even mention the jokes Bill Hicks did on American politics, he will lose half his audience.
Bill Hicks was going to either be a comedian or a cult leader. He was THAT fucking charismatic. How many comedians are actually *cool*? It's so hard to pull off in comedy because it can come across as being too self serious. Hicks was just cool. And I think that's a massive part of his appeal especially to teens just discovering stand up. Maybe Eddie Murphy in his leather jumpsuit days was the only other comic to capture that quality?
The news by Bill- " Today a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather" LEGEND
Bill Hicks paved the way for all the political hacks you see in comedy today. Watching his standup is more like going to a political rally, it’s unwatchable unless you’re a liberal who enjoys being pandered to, in which case you probably also enjoy John Oliver, so…
Honestly, not trying to hate but I have never really been a fan of Hicks. Same with Kinison, he had some funny stuff but I can’t remember a time I was rolling on the floor laughing as much as Carlin or Rock or Chappelle, or Patrice. Or even Richard Jeni, hilarious. I always thought Dice was way funnier than Kinison.
Hicks was brilliant & accomplished so much in a short time. Thankful for the treasures at our fingertips we can watch on RU-vid especially some of his very early stuff as a teen that I wasn't fortunate enough to see until long after he passed
It’s not that cool to have a blue city in a red state. If you want to live in a blue city go back to California. Keep Texas Red! Think about why you left California in the first place. Think real hard.
I love it when ever i see Bill hicks mentioned in your title on youtube. It's like going on netflix and seeing "new episodes of peaky blinders"... My finger moves to press play before my brain has had time to process what my eye's have just seen lol
Bill Hicks was the first to open my eyes man. I will never forget. I was just a kid and finding Bill Hicks I felt like it was a true blessing. The way he would get so mad on the stage and people were laughing, I was getting mad af. Like "dude you are right wtf!!! people are insanely dum!!!!" not knowing that I was just as dum before finding him. I rarely laughed at Bill's stand-ups, I really saw him differently. My man :( RIP.
Literally just watched this dudes special on Monday in Singapore after noticing his awesomeness via a couple of Facebook videos I saw of his bits. Immediately thought once done with special that I hope Rogan speaks to him. Three days later ✅
