“Bill honey, are you still doing that ‘eat the pussy’ piece?” “Yeah mom.” – “Great… You know son, many people at Sunday school asked me when you’re gonna be performing in the area. Bill they all are so curious to see the material you’re doing now and they’re aaaaaaaaaaall sure they wanna see… the ‘suck your own cock’ bit, followed by the ‘eat the pussy’ sketch!” “Bill, I only wish your grandparents were still alive. If only you hadn’t to put them in that Chuck Norris film, baby. I wish to God your grandparents could see their grandson on stage, using his given surname… …performing the ‘suck the own cock’ bit, plus the ‘pussy eating’ sketch.” “Maybe they’re hearing it in heaven mom.” “Son, is there anyway I can ask you to type up the ‘suck your own cock’ bit, so I can pin it to your grandmother’s headstone?”
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#43When he was alive he was much more appreciated in the UK than in the US. Good to see that the US is catching on.
In the South, where he’s from, I feel that people know him. There’s been a poster of him and other comedy greats in Midtown ATL at the Vortex since at least the mid naughts. In the North East I haven't met anyone who knows him; I find “Yankees” to be living up to their puritan killjoy reputation. I love them, but man its harder to joke around with them.
Maybe more Atlanta proper than the South overall; despite growing up in Mississippi and Tennessee, I only heard of Hicks after I moved to Baltimore. (Then again, we're not not the South here, exactly...)
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the South, where he’s from, I feel that people know him. There’s been a poster of him and other comedy greats in Midtown ATL at the Vortex since at least the mid naughts. In the North East I haven't met anyone who knows him; I find “Yankees” to be living up to their puritan killjoy reputation. I love them, but man its harder to joke around with them.
Maybe more Atlanta proper than the South overall; despite growing up in Mississippi and Tennessee, I only heard of Hicks after I moved to Baltimore. (Then again, we're not not the South here, exactly...)
Atlanta is not the South but its also not not the South ;)
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"Can I recommend some jugglers you might like?" - Context - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoCezQAF5AA
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#46When he was alive he was much more appreciated in the UK than in the US. Good to see that the US is catching on.
This piece was written in 1993. Bill Hicks was well-known in the States at the time. And if his TV appearance frequency is any indication, he was certainly appreciated.
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* In 2022 this kind vacuous, self-congratulatory pseudo-intellectualism typical to 90s stoner culture is just so stale and irrelevant* I'd say 30 years later his material is a little more obvious but being 30 years ahead of the curve is a pretty nice compliment. In my State pot is now legal, some psychedelics are decriminalized (and small amounts of any illegal drug is no longer a felony), and my partner does intense…
>He also wasn't positioning himself out as some super intellectual. He self-identified as being simply a, "dark poet". The latter is more pretentious, in my view.
It's not pretentious if it's backed up by skill. The way he could deliver lines that he practiced and workshopped for literally a decade was masterful. Saying that that isn't hard is what's pretentious - go up to an audience - a sometimes adversarial audience, and tell a joke sometime.
And he didn't say he was a, "little dark poet" while sitting around in a comfy chair with some literally intellectual, it was part of a bit. He said it while bending down, looking through a small opening made between his thumb and forefinger, with a nasally screech in his voice. Like, "this is all I am, this little turd". And we're all that little turds too, that he's looking at, through that opening.
That's good stuff.
Anyways, "It's all just a ride"
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#48Sometimes I find these kinds of link submissions pretty baffling. "Here's a nearly 30 year old article about a dead comedian!" Thanks, I guess. But also: why? Why this arbitrary New Yorker article, as opposed to any other article written in the last three decades?
Apparently a lot of people around here like Bill Hicks, and why not? He was a brilliant comedian, and maybe the most viciously accurate (and just vicious!) satirist there ever was of the grossly self-satisfied smugness that typified post-1989 American culture. He was easily worthy of being remembered alongside Carlin and Williams, and I think would've been had he not died of cancer just as his career was starting to…
Post-1989?
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Apparently a lot of people around here like Bill Hicks, and why not? He was a brilliant comedian, and maybe the most viciously accurate (and just vicious!) satirist there ever was of the grossly self-satisfied smugness that typified post-1989 American culture. He was easily worthy of being remembered alongside Carlin and Williams, and I think would've been had he not died of cancer just as his career was starting to…
Post-1989?
After the Berlin Wall fell. That was one of Lenin's "weeks where decades happen", and the decade that happened in that week was the 90s, when the United States believed it had won the world forever and behaved accordingly.
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