In this thread I will narrate the life of Bill Hicks from his

>>128627797
why

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OP here. If I skip a certain topic, please ask and I will find the relevant material.
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On Bill's birth

>"Jim and Mary Hicks [...] welcomed eight-pound two-ounce baby Bill in the early hours of December 1961 at Pineview General Hospital in Valdosta, Georgia.

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On Bill's father

>"Mr Hicks was the kind of gardener who divided his lawn into watering zones and kept track of the number of squirrels he caught annually in his trap. After Bill moved, Mr Hicks measured the grass with a yardstick to make sure it was the right height."

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On Bill's childhood bedroom

>"He would read, he would write, and he would listen to records. Everything you needed in order to divine the make-up of a young Bill Hicks, you could get by watching him in his native habitat. Muddy Waters on the stereo, dog-eared copy of The Hobbit on the bed, posters of Jimi Hendrix and Woody Allen papering the walls."

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>>128628012
If you knew the content of Bill Hick's comedic material, you would not be asking, "why?"

>>128627797
Just in case the mods aren't familiar with Bill Hicks, he is /pol/ related.

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On Bill's first comedy performance aged 13

>"He had done fourteen minutes. Seven minutes his, seven minutes Woody Allen's. Like anyone here at Baptist church camp would know the difference. [...] Some of the ladies in Mrs Hicks's Sunday school class asked if she had heard about her son Bill's performance. 'Well, Mary, he is very funny,' the head pastor said. 'But you may want to look at how you raised him."
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On Bill's early athleticism

>"He was a star running back in football, one of the fastest sprinters on the Spring Forest Junior High track team and he had a killer right pitch, breaking several records [...] Everyone assumed Bill would eventually win a full baseball scholarship"

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On Bill moving to highschool

>"Stratford High [...] was a brand new three-story brick monolith without any windows [...] Bill and [his best friend] Dwight [Slade] were just two more gangly freshmen wandering the halls - Bill with his bowl hair-cut and white T-shirt tucked into his jeans"

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>>128628090
>Woody Allen papering the walls."

I'm going to stop reading now

I love these threads and bill was a legend, cheers OP

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On Bill's personality as a teenager

>"Bill was a misfit, both within his family and, with few exceptions, amongst his peers. He didn't drink, and couldn't understand why people did. He wasn't social and didn't go to high-school parties ("keggers"). He liked to read. [...] Bill wasn't in the cool clique. But he had friends and, even though he valued his privacy and being left alone, he wasn't a loner."

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On Bill's parents' reaction to his love of comedy

>"What was this joke telling? What about baseball? They had no idea that their youngest child was upstairs carefully typing one-liners and locking them up in a scuffed briefcase underneath his bed. Bill was a serious kid. If anything, his older brother Steve was the clown."

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On Bill's arguments with his parents

>"nothing about his family really connected to him [...] I witnessed first-hand these horrible fights Bill would have with his mother and father, saying things to them that I was completely taken aback by. It was traumatic to listen to. [...] His parents would not allow him to get to them at all. He wanted to hurt them, but they wouldn't be hurt. It was a little nutty in that house. They were a very normal family in appearances, but the crazy part is that there was all of this shit going on that no one ever talked about. I saw his journals. Horrible. Raging hatred. All capital letters."

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>>128629999
Quadssss, here's a interested bump friend.
RIP Alex Jones

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On Bill as a class clown

>"The few students who had seen Bill and Dwight perform for Mrs Barni gathered around the guys in the cafeteria at lunch and egged them on as they tested out new jokes [...] Most of the student body, however, thought they needed to have their asses kicked. Class clowns were one thing, but these two were just losers. The jocks hurled food off their trays at them and one afternoon Dwight got wedged between a Coke machine and the wall. Dwight's brother Terry [said] 'you, Mr Bill Hicks, I heard that you said that your father breast-fed you [...] If that's your idea of humor, I feel sorry for you.'"

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On Bill's rock band during his teens

>"They called themselves Stress. [...] they listened to Kiss records and talked about how they were going to be bigger than Kiss and have a bigger stage show than Kiss. [...] their aspirations were way beyond their abilities, but that didn't deter them."

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On Bill's anti-Semitic band

>"We had already been playing as "Stress" when Dwight had a teen crush on a girl, Mila Goldstein, reciprocated. She was, as you might suspect with that name, Jewish. The informal flirtation fell apart and, burned by young love gone wrong, we fought fire with fire by writing a handful of songs. Specifically, songs that made fun of Jews. We temporarily changed the band name for the occasion, calling ourselves Joe Arab and the Nazis."

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>see pics from index
>think its an alex jones thread
>mfw

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>>128630838
>Joe Arab and the Nazis
MY SIDES!

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>>128631113
>implying it isn't
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On Bill's attempt to attract girls as a teen

>"That summer, Bill and Dwight, now fifteen, got grill jobs at Wendy's. When management gave Bill his uniform, he printed his home number [...] on his name tag where it should have said HICKS. A courtesy to attractive customers, he told Dwight."

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On Bill and friends spying on girls

>"One of [Bill and his friends'] favorite activities before band practice was to pile into Kevin's Winnebago RV and drive around to the homes of various girls they had crushes on. They would sit there, hoping for some activity, before someone noticed the presence of a massive camper idling at their curb. Once in a while, they scored big, such as the night the beautiful Tammy Blue practiced her Spartonaire drill team routine in her parents' living room. [...] Their cruising episodes become known as the 'Nipple Tours'.

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On the 'Nipple Tours'

>"For a while we did our Nipple Tours in my family's thirty-foot-long motorhome. [...] There was another girl, Tracy Scovell. She was really hot but she had some scars on her face from where she had been bitten by a dog when she was young. The mark was not only a social hindrance but earner her the nickname of Tracy Scar-Veil. Bill had a crush on her. [...] One day we set up our amplifiers and a PA in the motorhome, then pointing everything out the window. When we pulled up in front of Tracy's house Bill took the microphone. "Tracy Scovell, this concert is for you." Then he let it rip. [...] Surprisingly the cops didn't show up and tell us to stop disturbing the peace."

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Where are you getting this info from OP?

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>>128631585
OP here. Two biographies have been published about Bill, which are my primary sources. Any quotations from the perspective of an "I" is from someone Bill knew personally at some point.
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On Bill sneaking out to perform comedy

>"It has become one of the more famous bits of Bill Hicks lore, that he used to sneak out of his house as a teen to go perform stand-up comedy in nightclubs. It's true. I ran the getaway car. Aiding and abetting."

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On Bill and Dwight's first stand-up gig together

>"They'd been working on their set list in Bill's room all week, and they had decided to go mostly with one-liners about their inability to get women. 'We were sexually abused when we were younger...' Bill said. 'Yeah, we never got any,' Dwight finished. [...] To their delight, they were killing. If people weren't necessarily responding to the jokes themselves, the sight of these two awkward kids talking about sex was enough."

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Link: A teenage Bill Hicks playing with his band 'Stress'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWMf1L6D3NU

>>128632015
Keep up the good thread, its a nice break.

>>128627797
bump

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Bill Hicks rules. Bump

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On Bill visiting a porno theatre as a teen

>"The Zipper Lounge soon became just another one of the things we did. [...] Bill [...] would call down to the theater and ask what movie was showing. He didn't just want to know the title, he wanted to know what the movie was about, the plot. [...] he would call down there and the poor bastard running the theatre would have to explain the film like it was the latest blockbuster. [...] So, we'd pay and go in, and Bill would always get popcorn. The rest of us were worried about picking up hepatitis or some orally transmitted sexual disease from the glasses. [...] Once we sat down, he was in a different world, just completely at ease, blissfully watching the movie."

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On Bill's thoughts on the prostitutes at the porno theatre

>"But the Zipper also started this delusional pseudo-fantasy that we were somehow better than the other patrons; that we would rescue these girls. [...] One night, Bill spent over $100 at the Zipper. Half of that was to go to the party room. He came back and was so disappointed because, for all of the money he spent, he didn't get to have sex."

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On Bill's virginity issues

>"Girls were the big mystery to both Bill and Dwight in high school. [...] Most guys who were virgins would just keep their mouths shut and act like they knew what was going on. Bill and Dwight were open about how not laid they were getting. They didn't want to be virgins, but at the same time they wanted their first experience to be more than something cheap. Especially Bill."

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>>128627797
Will you also cover his last act where he worked on an over-the-top character named "Al" which was based on the original Alex Jones on KJFK and Rush Limbaugh? Or that time when Alex Jones received an honorary Bill Hicks plaque in a private event full of comedians? How about Hicks manager moving on to become Alex Jones' manager?

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i have nothing to contribute but this old meme

>>128627797

Holy shit I'm older than bill hicks was when he died! Damn

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On Bill struggling with girls

>"He unquestionably had an inner confidence, but when I think about it, it didn't relate to women. When it came to athletics or stand-up comedy or spirituality or intellectual conversations, he had that fucking fire in his eyes [...] But the one thing about his relationship with women, especially early on, was that he was over-swinging. [...] Bill would just try too hard. He was an artist and a romantic. The last thing you want is a love letter when you are 16 years old. I know Bill wrote love letters."

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On Bill's early anger towards women and "jocks"

>"With regard to women he was extremely romantic. "Why do girls always talk about wanting romance and commitment? They hate guys who just want them for sex. I would never do that. I would always be respectful". Then you see these turds, these jocks, walk off with your princess even though they are just blind idiots. [...] Bill was always confused by the double standard. I think he was always attracted to romance because it draws out the heart."

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On Bill pretending to be mentally retarded in an attempt to attract girls

>"Bill created a character named "Happy". [...] We open the door and this super-manic teen 'tard comes bouncing into the house. "Hi, I'm Happy. Hi. Hi. Hi." The character was so hopeful, but also tragic. And at its core, it was just another ploy. We were scheming to make the girls think that there was this other level of depth to us because we were caring for for this person with special needs, trying to paint it so it looked like we were more interested in making sure this person had a place to spend his Saturday nights than we were in getting laid. [...] But "Happy" kind of ran its course. It was putting Bill in social situations, but its questionable aphrodisiac effects certainly weren't getting him any closer to getting laid."

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>>128632855

more about this

That's clearly Alex Jones.

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On Bill imitating Woody Allen in an attempt to attract girls

>"Watching Bill interact with women in his mid to late teens really was like watching a Woody Allen movie as he would try to impress girls who were way of out his league. I don't think it was any consolation to Bill for him to know how well he was emulating one of his comedie idols. Except it wasn't funny."

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On Bill as an alien

>"Bill made comments about how he felt like an alien on this planet. Like there was something about him that was different. He didn't know how to have a pleasant but inane conversation, didn't know how to watch football with the guys [...] Then you watched him, or you were around him, and he would say and do things that made you think, "God he really is like an alien."

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On Bill finally asking a girl out

>"The last day of tenth grade, he'd finally summoned the courage to ask a girl named Laurie Mango on a date. He was working the Wendy's drive-thru when he'd first seen her a few weeks earlier. She was stunning, a tall brunette with pale freckled skin and dark eyes. [...] 'Hey, Laurie Mango, you wanna go on a big high-school date?' he blurted as he walked by her locker. Laurie looked up, surprised. They had exchanged maybe three words before. [...] She'd never sensed even a glimmer of interest from him, but then, like Bill, she pretty much kept to herself. [...] This would be her first real date."

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>>128633286
thanx for posting! Keep going OP

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On Bill's first date

>"Bill took Laurie to dinner and afterward, before their movie started, he pulled into Toys 'R' Us. They roamed the aisles playing with action figures and water pistols [...] They could barely stop talking long enough to sit through the movie."

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On Laurie's memory of Bill

>"We bonded immediately. He had the exile-from-the-rest-of-society thing going already. And, high school being a great thing to feel cynical and exiled from, he had this dark soul; or not "dark soul" so much as "Isn't this all a bunch of bullshit?" attitude. He was this misanthrope. [...] I think there was something painful to him about the fact he didn't completely feel he was part of something."

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On Bill and Laurie's romance

>"All summer, they went to drive-in movies and to see Bill's favorite music, mostly blues and jazz groups. They sat around in his room [...] talking about the best books, the worst assholes at school. Bill showed her the little comic strip he had been doing called 'The Adventures of Sane Man'. Sane Man was this existential superhero whose one gift was the ability to react to all situations with total logic. He was a sober lone ranger who traveled the world seeking out narrow-minded irrational people, guilty of logic crimes, who he would defeat with his razor-sharp wit."

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>>128627797
Cringe

>>128627797
how about go to /b/

>>128628090
>OP here
whats id

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On Bill's love letters to Laurie

>"Bill unleashed the full force of his personality on Laurie. He wrote her long, ten-and-fifteen page love letters. Bill wasn't just smitten; this was the be-all and end-all."

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On Laurie breaking up with Bill

>"Gradually, Laurie was overwhelmed by Bill's intensity. He was professing his love and devotion all the time, and she loved him too, but it was kind of scary. Everything was 200 percent with him. He wanted to hold her hand all the time and kiss in front of people, which Laurie thought was embarrassing. [...] I'm only sixteen! she kept writing. At the end of their junior year, almost a year after they'd met, Laurie gently told him she wanted to be just friends. But he could barely stand to talk to her after that."

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On Bill's self-imposed isolation

>" Bill decided to spend the summer of 1979 reading in his bedroom. If you wanted to go visit him, there was one rule: don't bring anyone else. [...] 'It was freezing, just freezing,' Johndrow recalled. 'He had one these little gym shorts and this little white shirt too small for him. He was real pasty and thin."

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i've enjoyed these threads, though this seems to be an odd choice for a subject, from what i know of the man. have a bump i suppose.

"yuppie Baptists"

Guy was a genius

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On Bill's reading habits

>"'Bill had this duffel bag full of books that he would carry when he was going to go talk to his parents or have a discussion about religion with somebody,' David said. 'Then it became a joke: The Duffel Bag of Knowledge.' One day, much later ,Bill threw away the entire bag. He'd devoured those ideas and he was moving on."

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On comedian Ron Shock's first meeting with Bill

>"Between sets at the Annex, the guys hung out in the green room [...] drinking and smoking - except for Bill, who refused to indulge. 'How can you do that to yourselves?' he would ask, shaking his head as they lit up. [...] Ron Shock, another Annex comedian recalled [...] 'Billy was a genius when he walked in the door. And everybody fucking knew it. Just like they knew it when Rembrandt showed up.'"

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On Bill arriving in Hollywood aged 18

>"'Well, I'm here to be a comic!' Bill announced to the wiry young guy answering telephones behind the front desk of the Comedy store. He'd taken a cab straight from Los Angeles International Airport to 8433 Sunset Boulevard, walking through the Comedy Store's heavy double doors, and climbed the stairs to the main floor."

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comfy thread

>>128637086
yeah! Really enjoying reading all this

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On Bill's early joke in Hollywood

>"One of them was about how, although he was a fairly nice guy, he just didn't like bums on the streets of Hollywood. The very idea, Bill said, that they wanted him to just *give* them the hard-earned money his parents sent to him every week."

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On Bill refusing to indulge in the Hollywood lifestyle

>"it was practically impossible to meet a girl his own age at the Comedy Store, and with everyone there from the performers to the line cooks partying into oblivion, teetotaler Bill didn't exactly fit in anyway. [...] 'You know, Hicks, you need to smoke a joint or something man. Lighten up,' Jackson Perdue said. 'And he got really indignant with me. "Fuck you, man! I don't need some Hollywood asshole telling me I need to do drugs." Bill felt really far away from all his friends having fun together in college in Texas and he was still pining for Laurie Mango. He was actually thinking about going to Church just so he could meet some more people"

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On Bill's interest in alternative beliefs

>"The two went vegetarian and Bill, typically emphatic, not only stopped eating meat, but studied holistic nutrition books, bought organic flour and made batches of wholewheat biscuits from scratch. [...] They [...] investigated all manner of metaphysical technique, gurus and literature: meditation, TM, Judeo-Christianity, Buddhism, psychic phenomena, astrology and numerology."

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>>128630345
That's lazy and disingenuous.

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bump.

Is pic related Bill's fate?

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bump

good stuff op

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On Bill attempting to make money by patenting an invention

>"Bill [...] developed a personal and portable sensory deprivation device. It consisted of a pillow and a belt. You wrap the pillow around your head and strap it secure with the belt. Voila, you are now in the neurological netherworld. He was serious. He even talked to a lawyer about patenting the idea."

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On Bill's intensity

>"'Bill was constantly in search of the balance between two journeys,' Dwight said. 'He'd go too hard in one direction and counter with a dive in the other but his devotion to both never wavered. On top of that was Bill's impatience [...] with the plodding pace of humanity, impatience with people's lethargic driving, their inane ideologies, impatience at his own spiritual development."

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On Bill's letter to his friend about the potential of comedy

>"I think that deep down, under all the facades life presents to people, almost everyone thinks the way we do,' Bill wrote. 'Sanity and basic logic is a large facet of Right and the absolute. And there is a Right. There is sanity in this sick world. Hopefully people need it and more hopefully we can produce it on the screen in the most pure, original and hilarious form possible."

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>>128627797
THE DOOR IS A JAR

I love Bill Hicks, he probably reconcil his vison of the world with psychedelics.


If you're feeling down, watch this :

https://youtu.be/ER6uv2xtuCg

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On Bill's continued struggle to attract women while living in LA

>"Bill was obsessed by [Houston friend] David DeBesse's ability to meet, pick up, and hook up with "goils", probably because he was such a failure at it, Laurie [Mango] not withstanding. All but one or two of the letters he wrote me start with Bill wondering about the status of Dave's sex life. It was partially Bill's ability to take an idea and bludgeon it into submission; it was partly that Bill was lonely. [...] LA was crawling with hot young ass, and Bill was fixated on what his friend two time zones away from him could do to help him get laid."

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On Bill's grand schemes to attract women

>"If Bill had just been his own charming self, he would have been fine. Instead of charm, however, he had schemes, very bizarre schemes. [...] They didn't work in highschool. They still weren't going to work because the degree to which they were weird for the sake of being weird was rivaled only by the degree to which they were lame."

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On Bill's LA room-mate trying to get him laid

>"Me, Robertson, Hicks and maybe Barber, we were talking about getting Bill laid, because there were all of these hookers out on Sunset Boulevard all the time. [...] we had talked Bill into letting us buy him a hooker. And he was into it. So we go downstairs and we start negotiating. We are talking to the girls with Bill standing off to the side. Me and Ron are negotiating a price and we come to an agreement, and they say, "Okay, we'll do anyone but him." And they point over to Bill. [...] He was standing there looking kind of goofy with the bad hair and all, but it was ridiculous that she said that. [...] Finally we said, "Bill, they won't do you." "Fuck you. They've got to do me, they are hookers." [...] It was probably the lowest point in Bill's life, in a sense."

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>>128627797
Another one of these. Love it.

>>128627797

Bump. Hicks is based.
https://youtu.be/_WTBkj8gFfI?t=293

>his death
nice try cia

Doesn't even touch the ankles of Richard Pryor.

>>128638764
shut up nigger lover

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On Bill's dejection living in LA

>"When he returned to Burbank in July he was beset by frustration. Laurie had her college life and Dwight was off to Iowa again [...] Everyone had a passion but him. What did he have? No girl, no partner, no project. He was stuck at the stupid Comedy Store doing his routine by rote. He was simply outgrowing his own act and it almost embarrassed him now, getting laughs for being so 'cute'".

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On Bill's poverty having returned to Houston in 1985

>"By the time Houston City Magazine began profiling Bill in June 1985 the electric company had cut off service at his Richmond Avenue apartment, and he was sleeping on Mark Wilke's floor. The night that writer Bob Daily met him before a show at the Annex for their first interview, Bill admitted he had just $15 to his name."

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On Bill's apartment in Houston

>"Bill was sporting the exposed-mattress look in his room. He accessorized with shit all over the floor - books, tapes, piles of clothes. [...] He kept tinfoil over the windows and kept the air conditioning turned low. It was part-dungeon, part-meat locker. It had a really dark aura to it."

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>>128627797
wow hes jewish

>>128630273
>Stratford High
>brick monolith without any windows

can confirm, I live about 15 minutes away from this place and it looks like a prison from the outside (like most public high schools in the Houston area)

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>>128638764
haha

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>>128638764
OP here. Richard Pryor was Bill's favorite comedian.
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On Jay Leno recalling the time he offered advice to Bill and other young Texan comedians

>"Leno knew he was good, recalling: [...] "the comedy club owner says, 'Oh, there's a group of people in the city, would you talk to them about comedy? [...] I always find when you're teaching comedy, the one who sort of gets up in disgust and leaves and thinks you're a jerk is usually the best comedian in the room." That was Bill. With Bill opening for him that week, Leno gave him a nickel's worth of free advice. He had to clean up his act if he wanted to do television."

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On Bill getting drunk for the first time

>"Bill was the closing act and he had a good two hours to get acquainted with the powers of top-shelf tequila. Seven or eight shots later, he was standing at the edge of the stage, glaring at his audience [...] He'd never before been so filled with pure contempt. They were the reason everything was so mediocre. [...] 'You stupid fuckin' old people,' he slurred, crawling around the stage. 'You just send your kids off to war. What the fuck do you care? You got all the money. Just let them die. Just say home and watch on your TV sets. You don't give a shit.' [...] An older woman in front stood up. 'I'll have you know my son died in the war for your freedom!' she yelled, pointing a finger at him. [...] As she and her husband left their table and made their way to the nearest exit, Bill said, 'All right, all right, maybe I was a little out of line...' The audience stared. 'Fuck you all,' he groaned.'"

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On Bill overdosing on Darvon (painkillers)

>"I picked up a bunch of boxes of Darvon to give to friends. [...] Bill ended up taking the whole box, and he ended up in the ER of St. Joseph Hospital with a Chinese doctor standing over him yelling, "You partyin' now, white boy? You partyin' now, white boy? while trying to slap him back into consciousness."

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>>128630273
>'Well, Mary, he is very funny,' the head pastor said. 'But you may want to look at how you raised him."
BTFO!

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>>128639007
>tinfoil over the windows

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On Bill's second, now long-distance, relationship with Laurie

>"Bill hated being apart, writing her long lovesick letters [...] sometimes twice a day. "The rest is so meaningless," he wrote. "It only takes a meaning when I'[m with you - my love. And when we're apart - motions. Without love, life is meaningless motion". He could see what an "irresponsible infant" he was, he told her, and "how much other people take care of me"

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On Bill's anger at Laurie and second break-up

>"but Bill was still tortured by bits of her past. After they had broken up in high school, Laurie had started dating this guy named Mike Warthan. [...] Bill hated his guys. When Bill found out they'd had sex without using a condom, it drove him nuts. [...] Bill became obsessed with the question of when a guy comes in a girl, does it all ever really come out? "There's no way. All those folds. All of those weird places. It just goes on forever. [...] So in essence whenever I am going down on her, I am eating Mike Warthan.""

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>>128639547
>"You partyin' now, white boy? You partyin' now, white boy? while trying to slap him back into consciousness."
thats funny

>>128632659

And here's me, getting a 10$ thai hookoer to lose my virginity, lol

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>>128627797

Bumperidoo

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>>128640066
If you read on you may find you have more in common with Bill than you imagine, on that front at least.

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On Bill continuing to get drunk while performing

>"he'd be saying, "Someone bring me a drink" and people would make him drinks and bring them onstage. And he would turn into the bitter guy lying on his back and screaming, "WHAT DO YOU WANT? WHAT ARE YOU HERE FOR?"

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On Bill's early tour of the South

>"Bill would drink a lot; and he was doing more and more material about religion and politics, and often doing it in front of tiny southern crowds. [...] If Bill drank a lot, he would cut out the prolonged alienation and go straight to berating the audience. They were idiots for laughing at the opening comic who wasn't funny and, more generally, they were responsible for everything wrong in the world. Bill had no problem telling them that."

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On Bill's love of Elvis

>"Bill had been talking live Elvis for the last three days. At parties he was known to sit on the couch and channel people who knew Elvis. 'Elvis gave me this ring,' he would say, holding out his hand with a large stainless-steel potato-chip bowl balanced on his ring finger. Another night Bill might wear an Elvis towel for his cape [...] a clingy white jumpsuit with a sparkling cummerbund. [...] Bill's Elvis was a failing Elvis, the gargantuan grunting underbelly of the American dream, reduced to passing out sweaty scarves and brand new Cadillacs. [...] Bill said that he identified most with the last shot of Elvis in an old documentary where he was fat, high and pathetic, crying onstage and talking to 'Cilla'."

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Link: Bill Hicks as Elvis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB12dIqXQA8

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>>128636391
>Bill decided to spend the summer of 1979 reading in his bedroom. If you wanted to go visit him, there was one rule: don't bring anyone else
People visited him?

>>128627797
Are you the anon that also narrates Ted "the unabomber" kaczynski

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On Bill insulting a group of Arabs

>"Sitting at a table upfront were "Arab Mafia" (his description), and oil-rich Middle Eastern and his entire entourage. They were there with a girl. Her birthday. They were acting like they owned the place, talking loudly but tipping huge. [...] Bill got on-stage and the place started going berserk. He's doing his show and everyone loves him, everyone except the Arab guys up front who will not shut up. Bill does everything he can to quiet them, knocking them down verbally and calling them assholes in clever ways. [...] Finally, Bill stopped his set and says to them: "Look, I've heard this material. These other people can't hear. So why don't you shut up?" The Arab guy shoots back, "It's her birthday. Fuck you and do your act." Bill doesn't give a fuck and tells them, "I don't give a fuck if it's her birthday." So the Arab peels off another $20 bill, throws it at Bill and says, "Do your fucking act." This sets Bill off. [...] "I don't want your fucking money. You're fucking up the show. I don't need your fucking money. Look, I shit $20 bills." So Bill took the $20, wiped his ass with it, then threw it back in the guy's face. [...] A woman sitting next to them joined in on the side of Bill and the rest of the crowd: "No, we cannot hear." The Arab with the wad of money looks at her and goes," Shut up cunt." So this lady's Texas linebacker-sized boyfriend immediately gets up. "I'll be right back. I need to go talk to this little foreigner." [...] "The last thing I saw," said Bill, "was the waitress jumping on the stage saying, 'Well, that's our show. Thanks for coming out.'"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O5pA-vOvcI&feature=youtu.be&t=3818

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On Bill meeting another girl after Laurie left him again

>"Pamels was a hair stylist [...] At first [she] didn't think much of Bill, who never had a lot to say during his appointments [...] but one night at Houston House, while she was giving haircuts at Andy and Jimmy's place, she wandered upstairs to check on him and found him sitting there smoking a cigarette. 'I said "Are you alone?" and he said, "I'm always alone." Pamela fell in love with him instantly. She told Bill she had barely cracked a smile since her father died a year earlier and Bill made her laugh."

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On Bill's short-lived relationship with Pamela

>"Bill was wildly attracted to Pamela. It didn't bother him that she was seven years older than him, divorced with two songs, aged twelve and thirteen. She was his feminine ideal, a Southern belle of the Blance DuBois variety, intense and dramatic, though in a soft way. In private, Bill called her Bird and she called him Daddy."

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On Bill's first Letterman performance

>"All the same people that used to diss Bill and talk about what a loser he was, they couldn't be fagged to stay up another hour and turn on their TVs. Almost everybody I asked who I knew had known about the show said they missed it. The sad fact is that "I'll show those bastards" was part of Bill's motivation, but the bastards he wanted to show, most of them didn't even care."

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On Bill writing for Rodney Dangerfield

>"He had to be in New York two weeks later for two nights of taping at Dangerfield's and each comedian was told to bring a funny intro for Rodney to read. [...] Bill was the only one who arrived in New York with a finished intro in time for a week of rehearsals. [...] The line he and Farneti had settled on was, 'I'd like to say this next guy is ahead of his time but his parents haven't met yet.' [...] 'Not funny enough,' Dangerfield said. 'No, that's funny,' Bill replied. 'Try it.' If Rodney was startled at a no-name twenty-six-year-old challenging him, he went ahead and tried out Bill's line on the first audience. Surprisingly, it got a good laugh. The next day before the second taping Bill walked by Rodney's dressing room. 'Hey Bill,' Dangerfield called. 'That line, it's real funny. What the fuck do I know?'"

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Why hacve none of you posted Hick's most glorious moment?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAuWMzuBAI8

>>128641643
>In private, Bill called her Bird and she called him Daddy.
ew

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On Bill's angry late-night phone calls to friends

>"Bill's friends were used to these calls. When he was on the road, all alone and drowning in whiskey, he might call you in the middle of the night and scream into the phone something like, 'All women are WHHHOOOOORES!' [...] Bill told David that once he'd tossed and turned in bed for hours and when he finally found a comfortable position, he realized he was twisted in the shape of a swastika."

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On further angry late-night calls

>"Bill was angry drunk. And the phone calls became as regular as breakfast. For six years - six fucking years - the clock struck 3 a.m. and my phone started ringing. [...] The topics never changed. He was screaming about his girlfriend cheating on him, about the government, about the dumbasses in the crowd that night who didn't get it, about all these shitty people coming out of Hollywood becoming famous yet he wasn't getting anywhere. There were time when I put the phone down, fixed myself a cup of coffee, came back to the phone and Bill was still blithering without even having broken his stride."

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On Bill's view of the world

>"Basically, he was telling me, or whoever else was dumb enough to pick up their phone in the middle of the night, about how much the world sucked. He always had a hope for the world and mankind, but it wasn't an honest hope. His hope for mankind didn't always include the happy ending everybody wanted. There wasn't really a happily ever after. His hope for making was that, after all of the assholes were wiped off the planet, then the rest of the people left could actually forge a world worth living in. [...] "Hitler had the right idea. He was just an underachiever." It's something Bill said during one of his more infamous shows."

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>>128639981

Yeah, this guy would fit in here to 100%

>"Hitler had the right idea. He was just an underachiever." It's something Bill said during one of his more infamous shows."

>>128640522

I've read all and I seem to have a shitload in common with him. Tortured youth due to autiso-behaviour and zero luck with women leading to dark thoughts, large hangups about womens virginity, don't drink and dont understand why people do it, etc.

Luckily I'm more handsome and not quite as autismal, and I could clamber up from my depression. Married now (and she WAS a virgin) and life's pretty ok.

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On Bill's vulnerability

>"Bill had that kind of vulnerability, and it allowed him to capture people's hearts. It wasn't contrived or synthetic. Even towards his later days, you still had the feeling when he was on stage that if you yelled something from the audience, even though he might have the perfect comeback and put you in your place, or even explode and start screaming expletives at you, it really would hurt his feelings, because he was always trying to open his heart to people."

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On Bill crying in the cinema

>"Bill Hicks was also a sensitive man. He couldn't go on stage and cry. He'd go on stage and rant, but when he went to see the movie Of Mice and Men [...] do you know how much he cried? He called me up crying when he came out of the movie. He said he was sitting in the movie saying, "Put the rabbit down," and of course if you read the book , you know it doesn't happen that way, but he called me crying over that. He was a sensitive guy in a masculine guy's body."

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On Bill's epiphany about men and women

>""You caught her cheating on you. Kevin, all women are whores." Duke said that over and over again. All women are whores. This exchange happened in the presence of Bill. And it was like a light went on over Bill's head. "All women are whores." "All men are your brothers." I don't think Bill stopped being a sensitive guy that day [...] but around this time is when he stopped being a milquetoast when it came to women"

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>>128639981
>Bill became obsessed with the question of when a guy comes in a girl, does it all ever really come out? "There's no way. All those folds. All of those weird places. It just goes on forever. [...] So in essence whenever I am going down on her, I am eating Mike Warthan.""
top kek, i always wondered about this too. like how does the sperm disappear from the inside of the vag? i don't think women wash the inside of the vagina, so the sperm basically rots in there or what?

Overrated fuckwit. Saged.

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On Bill having sex with an Asian prostitute in Texas

>"There was also a whorehouse [...] called The Lady of the Eighties. [...] a stunningly beautiful Asian girl came out and started talking to me. [...] "I pick you," I said. Instantly. Bill shot me a look that said, "You fucker." [...] The woman that came out for Bill was this older, ugly, short-haired girl. She resembled one of the Blue Meanies from Yellow Submarine. After he finished, we walked outside and Bill said, "I need to go back to the hotel, pour gasoline on my dick and light it on fire." The girl Bill had done it with was just nasty. Scary."

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On Bill's subsequent visits to a whorehouse

>"We didn't go back to the Midnight Cowboy for months. When we did, we were all coked out to the gills. [...] from Bill's room you'd hear a woman protesting: "No hiney. No hiney." Always from Bill's room. Bill was so into anal. He went well past fetish and fascination to the point of obsession. I remember when Bill got sick and I was searching for any explanation - [...] One of the more ridiculous notions that came across my head was the thought he got sick from tossing a few too many salads. He talked about it all the time. It was one of his hobbies."

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Literally 4chan. Well maybe old 4chan, fuck this reddit normie infested rotting corpse of a website.

>>128643741
Don't stop

>>128644045
He is probably my favorite comedian. Weird considering he died 8 hours before I was born.

>>128641643

>'I'm always alone'

Jesus what a sperg he was.

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>>128627797
Hey, are you the anon who always does these threads?
I love you, man

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On Bill's transformation from cute comedian to Outlaw comic

>"Bill stood onstage at Charlie's Goodnight's in Raleigh, dressed in a black leather jacket and sipping Jack Daniels [..] 'How many of you think I'm the Antichrist?' he asked. [...] Bill narrowed his eyes and stared hard at the audience. 'That's not enough,' he said. [...] He acted out violent, bloody fantasies toward his former girlfriend, an assortment of politicians - even the Reagans' dog. He unearthed new, unimagined lows in bad taste [...] This is not a warm person. But is he funny? Oh yes."

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On Bill's advice to a young Black comic

>"Vernon even credited Bill with helping him find his voice. Bill didn't like the stock racial stuff Vernon was doing at first. 'He said, "Why are you doing the dumb nigger shit? We've got a bunch of those," 'Vernon recalled. 'I've heard you talk in the green room, the shit you say back there is what you feel. That's funny. Go up and do *your* stuff with your attitude the way *you* do it and you're going to be okay."

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On Bill's exhaustion working small town shows

>"nothing much changed for Bill in the ensuing months for raising his price a little when he went back on the road to do the usual round of comedy rooms. One night he found himself in a nice suburb of Kansas City playing at a little club called Stanford's and Sons. 'Good evening, ladies and gentlemen,' Bill began. 'I am very tired and I have been on the road for months, so please bear with me while I plaster on a fake smile and plow through this shit one more time.'"

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>>128627797
He was only 32 when he died? Wew, he looked like shit when he was still doing stand-up, looked at least 40, maybe 45.

I love you, bonganon, this is very comfy. Were you the one who did the Ted K. biography, as well?

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On managers taking advantage of Bill's work ethic

>""He was feeling worn out and he was telling me, "Man, I go from gig to gig to gig." And I told him he didn't have to do that, but he was almost childlike in his approach in that when he got into his art, he just didn't get the business. He was blinded by the fact that in the early stages he was manipulated by managers and other people. [...] Bill was literally doing back-to-back-to-back gigs, working fifty weeks, taking no time off. So at that point it was: "Bill, he is killing you. There's no reason or you to be working like this.""

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On Bill's drug problems

>"Bill had also been calling me to tell me how he had been getting really fucked up lately. [...] Then he broke down. He broke down and told me how he'd injected cocaine. [...] Bill started peeling back the layers. They shot up cocaine. The next night they started running out of cocaine. Someone had some heroin. So they mixed it up with a little bit of cocaine. The night after that they started running out of heroin. Someone had some crystal meth."

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>>128644730

Pancreas cancer, it's pretty quick.

Must have been genetic because 32 is very young even if you smoke/drink a lot

jesus this guy has always been one of my favorites, but its weird reading about all this isolation and trouble with girls and bitter anger

I was aware of it to some extent but not like this, its amazing how much in common I have with him

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On Bill's favorite noveL

>"The day before Bill left Kansas City, he bought Fallon a copy of A Confederacy of Dunces with a picture of Ignatius J. Reilly [...] in his famous earflaps on the cover."

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On Bill's porn collection

>"He sent me his porno collection. [...] We used to talk about porn all the time. He used to tell me about how when he was in New York he would go to all the porno places. But he bequeathed me all this porn. [...] There was also a letter in there. It said something like: "Herein lies the depravity of man."

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On Bill appearing on mainstream British TV with Oliver Reed

>"Bill winced at the idea but Hedge convinced him. Yes, the show was atrocious but its ratings were huge. [...] [Producer Paul] Ross told him how the show had a great prank that night: producers had brought Britain's favorite drunk, Oliver Reed, to a pub before the show and now they were planning to train a secret camera on him in the dressing room. [...] 'Bill didn't like the idea that Oliver Reed was as drunk as he was,' Hedge said. 'He didn't like that they were exploiting him.'"

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Link: Bill Hicks and Oliver Reed on Channel 4 (UK)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8z4a86aggU

>>128644045

There it is, best way to loose your virginity right here, asian prozzies. Fucking lol on all this.

>>128645463
All I care about is where the Bill Hicks turned into Alex Jones shit came from.

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>>128637778
The coolest thing Hicks did was faking his death & then convincing people he had become Alex Jones when really he is Youtube personality Libertarian Realist. He's much more based now too.

>>128645585
Hardcore drug use.

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>"'The problem was that what he wanted to say and what people wanted him to say were two different things,' Shea recalled. [... ] 'I remember meetings and meetings and meetings with production companies like Casey-Warner and Disney and he would walk out of the meetings going, "Ugh!" [...] What he really wanted to do, and what I wanted him to do, was express his opinions'."

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On Bill turning from Outlaw comic to Goat Boy

>"Bill had referred to himself from the stage facetiously as Randy Pan the Goat Boy at times, crossing even his imaginary line of good taste when it came to sexually explicit material. But now there was no apologizing for it. [...] the people who were his big fans were very much left-leaning liberal folk, who in those days had a quiet, sort of puritanical attitude toward sex, and certainly a very feminist attitude. Bill did his this whole Goat Boy routine, and you could feel half the theater go, "What's he saying? He can't be saying this." That made life more intriguing and more dangerous, which is what Bill always was."

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On Bill's political stance

>"I don't know how to define Bill politically, but it would certainly be close to libertarian, social-anarchist, whatever. So to him the fact you had to register your car was: "Why? Tell me why?" He would't do it. He would rebel against things like that.

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>>128644730

Look at the photos, he always looked like shit. Add to that all the alcohol, drugs, smoking.

>>128627797
>his birth until his death at the age of 32
water filter merchant is still alive

>>128642868
Come on, answer.
Are you the guy that narrates the unabomber in some threads?
I think your threads are interesting.

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OP here. An interesting point relevant to this post IMO is that Bill rushed to Waco around the same time Timothy McVeigh went there too. They may even have crossed paths as they both watched the siege from afar.

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On Bill visiting Waco during the siege

>"On 6 March, Bill and Kevin drove an hour north from Austin [...] to the little town of Waco. [...] Bill was fascinated by the Branch Davidians' thirty-three-year-old leader, David Koresh. Koresh was born Vernon Wayne Howell in Houston to a fifteen-year-old single mother, had a lonely childhood as a misfit, and headed for Hollywood in the late seventies to become a rock star. [...] Bill said Koresh reminded him of himself 'without the guns and pussy'."

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On Bill's subsequent fascination with Waco

>"It was a tape of one of the tanks - a government vehicle - shooting into the Branch Davidian compound. I happened to catch it one night and I taped it. I showed it to Bill; and I think that was a seminal moment for him. [...] Bill would actually play that Waco footage at shows. If the club had a projector or even a TV cart and a VCR, he would play it and tell the audience, "Do you see that? You are being lied to. Right there.""

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>>128639981
>Bill became obsessed with the question of when a guy comes in a girl, does it all ever really come out? "There's no way. All those folds. All of those weird places. It just goes on forever. [...] So in essence whenever I am going down on her, I am eating Mike Warthan.""
Bill was a /robot/. Surprise, surprise.

Tempted to go to /r9k/ and encourage them to go into stand-up.

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>>128646364
OP here. Yes, that's me. I'll post a list of other threads at the end if that's ok.
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On Bill's diagnosis

>"It was hard to describe what was bothering him - it was a presence, again, but worse this time, a swelling in his stomach. [...] Upon examining Bill, Donovan detected a mass and immediately sent him for ultrasound [...] They decided to let Bill sleep. A few hours later he woke up, the sun streaming in through his window, and saw Colleen tentatively put her head around the door. She walked in, followed by Dr Donovan, and sat down next to Bill on his bed. [...] He had late stage pancreatic cancer, one of the most furtive lethal cancers, and it had spread to his liver. Bill shifted around around in his bedsheets, squirming, trying to absorb what the doctor was telling him."

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On Bill reminiscing during chemotherapy treatment

>"Most nights that summer, Bill and [his agent] Colleen took long walks along the oceanside Flagler Driver and sat on the sea wall watching the waves. He couldn't stop talking. He told her how alienated he he'd felt as a child and that for many years all he'd felt was anger and pain. He wanted to let go of all of that, try to feel more joy. [...] 'He would just talk about everything and cry and ask me questions about my life,' Colleen said, 'and could I relate to any of this and how come I wasn't fucked up or a drug addict. We would have the deepest conversations I've ever had with anyone, really. But the anguist Bill carried around blew my mind.'"

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On Bill's fightback against his cancer

>"For five days the two brothers drove across the Southwest, having a ball together. [...] Bill's spirits continued to soar. His tumor seemed to be shrinking drastically. The doctors used tumor markers to measure the size of a tumor and, four times in a row, Bill's had shrunk."

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>>128646497
REMEMBER WACO

>>128646497
Waco was reported falsely in the most disgusting way. OPPOSITE of the truth.

Strangely relatable, it's almost like I'm gutless, shut-in version of him.

Man I can related quite a lot to Bill!

Keep going on OP! You are doing an amaing job! Saved thread as i need to go to sleep right now!.... thank you for all the hard work OP!

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On Bill's final appearance on Letterman while recovering from cancer

>"the producers told Bill, they had been frantically searching for him. A good laugh was had by all and Bill went into make-up. [...] The set went as smoothly as could be. Finally, he was getting to do material [...] that he felt truly represented him for eight million people in the 11.30 audience. [...] 'Good set Bill!!' Letterman said. 'Always nice to have you drop by with an uplifting message!' [...] Back in the hotel, Bill stretched out in a hot bath [...] As he got out of the tub and wrapped himself in a towel, the phone rang. It was Robert Morton. 'Bill, I've got some bad news. [...] CBS Standards and Practices felt some of the material was unsuitable for broadcast.' Bill rubbed his forehead. 'Uh, which material exactly did they find unsuitable?' 'Well,' Morton said, 'almost all of it'." [...] 'He was, I [Colleen] swear, surrounded by white light. Like white rage. There was literally a glow around him, he was so freaked and mad.'"

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On Letterman pulling Bill's performance

>"On Friday 1 October[1993], Bill had taped a six-minute set for Letterman in its much-heralded new 11.30 time slot. About two hours after the taping [...] the show decided to pull Hicks's performance: Unsuitsable for broadcast Bill was told when he got the call in his suite at the Mayflower Hotel taht evening. [...] Bill knew the truth now. It was Late Show producers under the helm of executive producer Robert Morton and David Letterman - not CBS - who had decided to strike his entire set."

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On Bill's tumor growing again

>"Bill was being kicked hard by the cancer for the first time since his diagnosis. After months of remarkable progress the chemo was suddenly having little effect. He was having some rough nights and was allowing himself more and more Percocet to cope with the acute psychic pain as much as the physical."

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>>128647593
He would have been a /pol/ack.

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On Bill's physical and mental deterioration

>"Bill seemed to be cracking. The strain of fighting his illness, the painkillers that wrapped his head in cotton [...] moved him from laughter to tears within seconds. He would become mean, irrational, at times, but mostly he seemed frightened. [...] As soon as Charles Brand saw Bill walk into the Tiger offices [...] he knew something wasn't right. Bill's hands were shaking , he was wildly emotional and he kept excusing himself to go to the bathroom."

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On Bill's final show

>"On the evening of 5 January 1994, Bill dressed in his customary meticulous fashion for his eight o'clock show at Caroline's. [...] Colleen made a last-ditch effort to talk him out of the gig. [...] Frantically, she put a call in to Dr Donovan, who was appalled to hear that Bill was still working. He spoke bluntly: 'Colleen, Bill is ready to die. He just won't lie down.'"

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On Bill writing an essay while resting in hospital

>"He wrote [...] of his boyhood excitement at watching great comics on The Tonight Show and thinking, 'Boy, if they like this guy, they're going to love me.' And of the [...] cowards that run television treating middle Americans as though they were a herd of 'bib-wearing' fools who are only good for reflexive consumption. 'The elite ruling class wants us asleep so we'll remain a docile, apathetic herd of passive consumers, and non-participants in the true agenda of our governments' [...] A waitress at the Comedy Store had a computer and offered to type the piece up for him. When it came back - forty-five pages double spaced - Colleen suggested that he might consider cutting it for submission. He added a few pages.' [...] His final line was 'Heaven is a win/win situation. There is nothing to fear.' He underlined the word nothing.'"

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>>128646497
>OP here. An interesting point relevant to this post IMO is that Bill rushed to Waco around the same time Timothy McVeigh went there too. They may even have crossed paths as they both watched the siege from afar.

that's pretty interesting
also, if you could choose one current comedian, who would you say is today's Bill Hicks? (please no meme AJ answers)

bump, great thread

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On the final script Bill wrote as he neared death

>"Bill wrote a script [...] about a serial killer who goes around murdering hack comics. When the police finally catch the killer - Bill's character - he tries to explain. 'Why? You have the gall to stand here and ask me why? Let me ask you what answer must a surgeon give for cutting from the body cancers that threaten its very existence? For verily I say unto thee my mission was no less holy, my intent no less pure. A changing moment in my life came the day I first laughed. That was when life took a new form and my sad visions were cleansed by humour and from that day I paid homage to comedy. From that day I studied with the zeal of monks lost in religious rapture, the works of the comedy masters. For I loved comedy and I loved those who loved it. I loved those who gave their lives to find the perfect laugh, the real laugh, the gut laugh, the healing laugh. For love, I killed those comedians."

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On Bill returning to his parents' home

>"having gone halfway around the world, talking to thousands of strangers from hundreds of stages, only to come home in the end to talk to the original two people whose approval - and conversion - he craved the most. [...] For Steve Hicks, it was the first time it really sank in that this was probably Bill's last Christmas. [...] at one point Steve's seven-year-old daughter, Rachel, cuddled with Bill and her grandmother on the living room couch. The little girl [...] turned to him and said, 'Uncle Bill, you are going to be our first angel.'"

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On Bill phoning his first girlfriend Laurie

>"He called my house over Christmas [...]. He called and left a message saying. "Hey, it's Bill. I can't believe I still remember this phone number." [...] He added, "I just want to say 'Hi' and wish all the Mangos a Merry Christmas." That was it. That was all he said."

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>>128642493

'I'm Sorry Folks' is possibly the most important and groundbreaking set Hicks ever did tbqh.

On Denis Leary stealing Bill's whole act

>this basically happened

>>128648671
Has Hicks ever talked about that?

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>>128648322
OP here. No idea sorry, I don't really watch contemporary stand-up.
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On Bill's last days alive

>"He wouldn't lie down, he would only sleep in a chair. He was having dreams of being transported already, he was having these visions. He told me about this burly nurse guy all dressed in white coming to him and saying, "You're not packed yet. You're not packed yet." [...] Bill announced he didn't want to speak anymore. He would nod in reply or ask for some water but that was about it. [...] He had been getting up and pacing around the house every night. 'Like a wounded animal,' his mother told Colleen."

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On Bill's mother shortly before her son's death

>"Letters came flowing in. His family members read them to him. His mom read him the Lord of the Rings trilogy. She was unable to make it through The Return of the King"

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On Bill's death

>"At 11.20 on Saturday night, 26 February 1994, Bill Hicks died with his parents at his bedside. The laminated memorial cards Mrs Hicks handed out to his friends said he was thirty-two years, two months and ten days old."

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>>128627797

Holy fuck youre still doing this OP. How many people have you done now? I remember you did Breivik, Kaczynsky and someone else, I just dropped my burger typing this out in my stone age shithole with no room, so I lost interest half way through.

>>128648503
>at one point Steve's seven-year-old daughter, Rachel, cuddled with Bill and her grandmother on the living room couch. The little girl [...] turned to him and said, 'Uncle Bill, you are going to be our first angel.'"

This hit me like a bag of rocks

>>128648793
I'm not sure.

I actually found out about Bill Hicks when an old boss of mine and I were listening to a Denis Leary routine. My boss listened for about a half hour and said, "I liked this guy a lot better when he was called Bill Hicks." One thing led to another and I checked Hicks out and the resemblances are certainly there.

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OP here. This is my final post. I hope this thread was interesting.
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On Bill's purpose as a comic

>""I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor - even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut. But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns, I always wanted to be the avenging cowboy hero - that lone voice in the wilderness, fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth and justice. And in my heart of hearts I still track the remnants of that dream wherever I go, in my endless ride into the setting sun."

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Link: Bill Hicks's original song "Moon Is Smiling"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgABxxKDj8

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Thanks for this thread OP, I really enjoyed. I didn't really know much about Bill Hicks before. Going to check him out now.

>>128649294

He was a softy deep down, and was left leaning in the 90s, but a lot of people just thought of themselves as good people and not wanting to hurt anyone else etc, wanting to stop suffering. He hated Bill Clinton because he bombed people in Africa, for example.

I think today, he would be a full blown /pol/ack. Things are different over 20 years after hes gone.

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>>128643700
How many Muslims does she fuck Sven?

literally /pol/ incarnate


R.I.P.

>>128649225
Good thread man.

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>>128640963
so fucking based

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>>128649638

>That fucking headline

>>128649933

you're a good guy

>>128649225
Thanks OP, i really enjoyed

>>128649225
Really good stuff op although I can definitely see why some people think Bill Hicks faked his death to become Alex Jones but now it seems unlikely. Although if Hicks really did become Jones that would easily make him possibly the greatest comedian and actor of all time.

Thank you, op. This was a lovely break from our usual shit board.

rare quality in this thread, and Bill Hicks was political as fuck so it fits here better than the "stop jerking off and let your wife fuck a black guy" cancer

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OP here.

Here is a list of similar threads:

>Adolf Hitler
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/86086584/

>Ted Kaczynski
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/104495239/

>Timothy McVeigh
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/118541028/

>Anders Breivik
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/87875112/

>Joseph Goebbels
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S9031886

>William Cottrell
https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/30930679

>Adam Lanza
https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/24985710/

>Christopher Knight
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/122023099/

>Christopher McCandless
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/122167113/

>Christopher Harper-Mercer
https://4archive.org/board/r9k/thread/31293613


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>>128640963

Bill wasnt the type to take shit from anyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWLf7j3iLRw

>>128650411
>>128650509
>>128650369

Hes been doing this for a while:

>>128650656

From before the board was absolute shit. Im going to go back and read goebbels if its still there btw, thanks for doing what you do, it helps expand a lot of peoples knowledge without them taking the initiative to read 5 books or w.e on the people.

>>128649225
Thanks op

>>128648793
On Bill's opinion of Dennis Leary

>"when friends of Bill in London pointed out the "similarities" and asked him if he noticed that Leary was doing a lot of his material Bill would just smile in return. Whenever the subject came up, Bill usually took the high road. Usually. In 1992 Bill took a jab at Leary when he made an appearance on The Dennis Miller Show, Miller's short-lived syndicated late-night talk show. When Bill told Miller that he was on his way over to London for a month, Miller mentioned, "Leary's big over there, isn't he?" Bill replied, "Yeah, it's weird. Their comedy scene is where ours was five years ago."[...] To his old friends he was sometimes less diplomatic. He cursed Leary's name and on more than a handful of occasions openly bitched about Leary's material."

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>>128636331
How about you fuck off

>>128629999
>>128627797
Bill Hicks was a degenerate drug abuser and a liberal dickcheese. He took too many drugs and developed depression and other mental illnesses.

He died without having a family in his early 30's, he was a waste of time and couldn't kick the smoking jew.

The only good thing about Bill Hicks was he was probably a believer in God

>>128649637
He hated Bill Clinton because he bombed people in Africa
I think his biggest contention with Clinton was Waco, but yeah, he was one of a kind

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>>128651988

Thats because Leary stole all his material and ruined it. For example, Bill would ask a crowd member for a lighter or a smoke I believe, and then would ask them how much they smoke in a day. Normally, the response would be "a pack", to which he would reply "A pack? What a little puss, why dont you put on a pink dress and come up on stage, do a little twirl for the crowd? I go through 2 lighters a day" pause for laughs.

Leary skipped all the leadup, and just said "I got through a thousand lighters a day!" - absolutely ridiculous, not even funny anymore.

At one point, Bill said he only quit smoking to see if Leary would do it too.

>>128627797
>Bill Hicks
Lefty piece of shit that was not funny for a single second. Glad as fuck he's dead.

S

>>128653161
>t. underaged faggot
Hicks was redpilled as fuck. If you can't see that, then you're a lost cause.

>>128652068
>>128653161

I don't get the hurr durr liberal shit.

He was a product of his time, had he still been around you think he'd be a BLM supporting feminist muslim lover?

He's bitter as fuck and angry at the world, doubtful he'd be a massive cuck.

Thanks again for this thread OP. Any idea what you will do your next thread on?
Just to let you know that your work is appreciated, and a welcome break from the usual stuff on here.
Currently reading the Anders Brevik bio you did.

>>128654186
Don't listen to their bullshit. They don't know what the fuck they're talking about.

>>128654186

He had jokes against gun rights, jokes about redneck southern whites, was anti-christian, anti-republican (but not pro democrat) theres a lot of ways people could perceive him as being left, but youre right, product of his times.

Just an all around awesome comedian/social commentator. I would have loved to hear him talk about Obama, proxy wars, and this SJW nonsense. RIP Bill.

Fun fact: the song "behind blue eyes" is a blatant plagiarism of Bill's gag about "no-one knows what it's like to be a dustbin in Shropshire with hooligans".

>>128655396
>jokes
Also, being anti-christian and anti-repulican doesn't mean you're a liberal. Not everything is black and white, my friend.

>>128655739

Imagine the fallout from Bill Hicks on 9/11

>>128656230

Tell that to everyone else, the point was it would be easy for people to perceive him as being leftist because of some of the targets he chose.

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>>128655746
>Fun fact: the song "behind blue eyes" is a blatant plagiarism of Bill's gag
Are you fucking retarded?

>>128657006
>some of the targets he chose.
No shit, leafbro. Some of those jokes practically wrote themselves.

>>128648322
>also, if you could choose one current comedian, who would you say is today's Bill Hicks? (please no meme AJ answers)
Maybe Doug Stanhope. Those are big shoes to fill but this is as close as I can think of off the top of my head

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>>128650656
thanks a fucking ton, OP. remember reading through your McVeigh and Kacyznski bits, just great.

cheers bud

Why make this thread and finish at his "death", convenient that you ignore when he became Alex Jones you fucking shill

>>128652068

He was a product of his era, sure he experimented with drugs and made mistakes but he was switched on and unafraid to tell things exactly as they were.

If he was alive today/born later then he'd be railing against the same obvious issues plaguing our society that we do.

>>128640963
Maybe he was an autist, but reading about him now, I have a slight sense of admiration for him. Man of principles, it seems. Wouldn't have minded sharing a beer with him desu

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