I remember reading a lot about Bill Hicks being this visionary, dark stand up... watched him and was pretty disappointed. Found a lot of it to be immature, over-acted, American style. Prefer George Carlin but he has some of the same flaws. Don't think they stand up to Gervais, Boyle, Stewart Lee etc for dark/insightful commentary.
I find it hard to enjoy Yankee stand ups. The humour isn't as easy to understand, not to say we English are dumb but it's far more enjoyable when you can relax to comedy and not have to understand the ethics and politics behind every ironic gag. Give me Mack and Manford any day.
I've seen all of those comedians being dire. In fact, Lee's bit on Tom o'Connor is exactly like Hicks' Goat Boy: a bit too long with too few jokes. But when Hicks was on it, as he was when I first saw his first Edinburgh festival gigs, he was among the best there's ever been. Fact. [video=youtube;JIA5dL7VJxg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIA5dL7VJxg[/video]
"Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled". Richard Feynman. "The difference between the tyrannies of religion and North Korea is that at least you can ****ing die and leave North Korea" Christopher Hitchens. "If your aunt had balls she'd be your uncle" (anon)
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Denis Diderot
**** you and this bullshit cos that's what this is you know... satanic black magic, sick ****. ****ing queers :- Paulie walnuts , the sopranos
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