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the Bill Hicks appreciation thread.
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| subuddha |
didnt discover Bill Hicks until recently.
right now i find him the best stand up comedian. ever. funny, intelligent and he is making a stand. he is actually saying something in his shows. sad that he is dead.
my favourite for the time being is him commenting on the Iraq war (the old one) and US weapon exports, impersonating Jack Palance throwing the gun to the sheep farmer. "pick it up" :)
i have seen some of his shows and even though i know it is not the same, ill post some quotes from them. if you have heard them, i hope you remember, if you havent heard them i hope you will like them and discover the genius for yourself.
| quote: | | We gotta come to some new ideas about life folks ok? I'm not being blase about abortion, it might be a real issue, it might not, doesn't matter to me. What matters is that if you believe in the sanctity of life then you believe it for life of all ages. That's what I hate about this child-worship syndrome going on. "Save the children! They're killing children! How many children were at Waco? They're killing children!" What does that mean? They reach a certain age and they're off your ing love-list? your children, if that's the way you think then you too. You either love all people of all ages or you shut the up. |
| quote: | | I don't do drugs anymore... than say, the average touring funk band. |
| quote: | | You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks liked He rushed it. |
| quote: | | I love talking about the Kennedy assasination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that's interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy. Sarcasm - come on in. People say "Bill, quit talking about Kennedy man. It was a long time ago, just let it go, alright? It's a long time ago, just forget it." I'm like, alright, then don't bring up Jesus to me. As long as we're talking shelf life here... |
| quote: | | The worst kind of non-smokers are the ones that come up to you and cough. That's pretty ing cruel isn't it? Do you go up to cripples and dance too? |
| quote: | | 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. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people. |
Do you have any favourite quotes?
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| Matt Jay |
"A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. Do you
think when Jesus comes back he ever wants to see a in' cross?"
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| emander |
| What's funny about a dead comedian? Give me a clue... |
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| svens_bath |
| hicks is very intelligent and witty, but for pure comedy id say Richard Prior is funnier. hilarious.:D |
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| TwoPlow |
| I think Bill Hicks is one of, if not the, funniest man to ever live. His Rant In E-Minor and Relentless are both ing hilarious. |
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| fitom tiel |
| quote: | Fundamentalist Christians believe the world is twelve-thousand years old...
...is that...?
Let's just think about that...
Isn't that great?
...and I ask them
Why do you think the world is 12,000 years old?
They go
Well,
we added up all the people born from Adam and Eve...
...added up all their ages...
...roughly...12,000 years.
Ah...well...that's fukin scientific...
BOOM...I can't fukn argue with that kind of...you know...research.
Do you think the world is 12,000 years old?
Is that true?
Hey, can I ask you a question?
Sure...
It's a one word question...
Fine...
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...Dinosaur?
I mean, if the world is 12,000 years old...and the Bible covers it...
Why didn't someone bring up...fuking dinosaurs?
You think someone would have brought that up...
...somewhere in the fukin Bible
...And Jesus and his disciples, walking down the path towards Nazareth,
but O, the trail was blocked by a giant brontosaurus
with a splinter in his paw...
...and the disciples did run a screaming
-What a big fukn lizard, 'Lord'
-I'm sure going to mention this in my book, said Luke.
-Well, I'm sure going to mention this in my book, said Matthew.
-I don't know what I saw, said Thomas.
Timothy noticed, [B]'That was a big fukin lizard, Thomas.'
...But Jesus was unafraid...
...and he took the splinter from the brontosaurus' paw...
...and the brontosaurus became his friend...
...and Jesus sent him to Scotland...
...where he lived in a loch for O so many years...
...attracting fat American families with their fat fukin dollars to look for the Lochness Monster...
...and, O, the Scots did praise the Lord...
Thank you, Lord...Thank you, Lord....
I asked this guy, said, Come on, man...dinosaur fossils...what's the deal?
He goes,
God put those here to test our faith.
I think God put you here to test my faith, dude.
I think I figured this out.
Does that...that's what this guy said...does that bother anybody?
The idea that GOD might be FUKIN with our heads?
Wouldn't you have trouble sleeping restfully with that thought in your head?
God's...running around...burrying fossils...
HOHOHO
We'll see who believes in me now.
HOHOHO...I'm a prankster 'God'
I am killing me...HOHOHO
You know?
You die...you go to St. Peter...
Did you believe in dinosaurs?
Well...yea...there's fossils everywhere
SPLAT
ahhhh...
What are you, an idiot?
God was FUKIN with you.
...Giant flying lizard...you moron!
That's one of 'God's' easiest jokes!
...It seemed so possible...ahhhhhhhh... |
that and the part that you mentioned, 'we looked at the receipt'. and, yes, the part about smokers. and goatboy. gotta love goatboy.
Relentless was pure genius.
Bill Hicks was easily the Lenny Bruce of the early 90s. |
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| wick |
i have to agree
funniest man to have ever lived. hes a legend
i havent heard much of him but the stuff i have heard has almost made me cry from laughing so much |
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| Ripped Bag |
| pretty funny stuff *looks for more* |
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| ExOn |
Funniest man to have walked this earth.
Some other fun comedians.
Billy Connelly
David Cross
George Carlin
George is ing hilarious.. |
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| subuddha |
| quote: | Originally posted by ExOn
Funniest man to have walked this earth.
Some other fun comedians.
Billy Connelly
David Cross
George Carlin
George is ing hilarious.. |
George Carlin is Great! thanks for the tip!
just listened to Fcuk Mickey Mouse.
"...I hope Mickey dies!"
Hilarious :haha: :haha: |
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| Rodrico |
Bill Hicks one of the greatest comedians ever to grace the stand up stage, his intelligence and wit was beyond the edge that most comics tread lightly upon. Even though diagnosed with terminal cancer I believe, he still got up on stage and performed cause it was his life calling and he was damned good at it. Ill gather up some good quotes afterwards, as I have all his shows on another computer. How many CDs did he release? 3 or 4?
George Carlin is a master of his art, after all these years, he just continues to get funnier and funnier, and watching interviews of him, and how he explains his performances is really cool. I cant believe someone actually said Billy Connelly, one of my first stand up comedies I ever watched as a kid was his, and the joke about the guy blowing a fart in the airplane was the funniest thing I had ever watched, definately a good comic.
I personally been liking Bill Maher lately, and I caught the new Lewis Black stand up which was pretty good (I love HBO), but im surprised no one mention Chris Rock, I think he is really on his game in his stand up shows, and I wish I didnt miss him a few months ago when he stopped over to do two club shows. *sniff*
Anyone else here have a collection of stand up DVDs? i just began to start mine up, now that I gots me a job. |
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| The_One |
Judging by the fact that you now have Maynard in your avatar. You probably just discoverd TOOL as well because Bill Hicks is associated with them in several ways.
Hicks is sampled on AEnima and is featured in the cover booklet. He was a correspondant of Maynard's and they had met once at a comedy show. The messages of both Tool and Hicks are extremely similar.
He also came out and introduced the band during their Lollapolloza hometown gig in "HeLL-A". The band and Hicks were really good friends.
The concept of "Arizona Bay" in the song aenima is Hick's theory, with "Hell-A" being dropped into the ocean... leaving an "Arizona Bay"... Third Eye includes two Hicks samples and one of his well known acts was about opening your Third Eye (Hicks' being a vocal supporter of drug use/legalisation and of altered states of consciousness). Some people also believe the song Eulogy is a tribute to Hicks, the lyrics certainly match his onstage persona.
My fave Bill Hicks quote is used in "Third Eye": "I believe drugs have done some good for us. I really do. If you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor, go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes all your CDs and burn 'em, 'cause you know what? The musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were real in' high on drugs." - Bill Hicks |
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