Comments on: Totally Bill Hicks

By: Rorster

Rorster — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:42:00 +0000

Ah you see when you sell your soul you become a success, like Leno and Lettermen. When you dance to the beat of your own drum , you get taken into a room, the lights dim, the projector begins, the limo passes , a gunshot to the head is seen, the lights come back on…. a voice is heard “Get out of line and this is what can happen” Thanks Bill for getting out of line and staying there too protest! RIP. Only the good die young, the evil and corrupt go on to live and kill!

By: smithie

smithie — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:51:00 +0000

The guy was Richard Jeni another brilliant man lost to us.

By: smithie

smithie — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000

like stephen Wright, Bill Hicks was a big hit in the UK – the Brits got both these guys way before the US.

By: Tony Malone

Tony Malone — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:09:00 +0000

The only thing wrong with you process is the truth about his celebrity or “ROCK STAR STATUS” is he was famous and did have a following everywhere but here. Just shows how free our press really is.

By: Tony Malone

Tony Malone — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Well said thanks.

By: Tony Malone

Tony Malone — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:56:00 +0000

never went that far with the thought process. Good point

By: joe banana

joe banana — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:21:00 +0000

5 gunshots to the back isn’t a disease.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:12:00 +0000

I was replying to this post by milton something: “Did Hicks die of the same disease that killed John Lennon? ”
now that the replies are not linked to the original comment is quite hard to follow the conversation

By: David Rodrigues

David Rodrigues — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:21:00 +0000

bill didnt get shot…did of cancer wasnt it?

By: Gary Douglas Davidson

Gary Douglas Davidson — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:48:00 +0000

Interesting take. I watched the film before I read your comment, went back to look for the pyramid, and indeed it was there. The curious thing is that the dude fronting those scenes committed suicide not all that long ago. He kind of sounds sad and regretful when he’s talking, too, and his praise of Bill Hicks sort of comes through as a self-indictment. I also found it interesting that the pyramid wasn’t complete. It was just the base. All the same, you could still tell it was a pyramid.
I DO see what you mean, sort of. I mean, this film does make Hicks appear to be famous, well-known, mainstream, a “rock star”, but of course, he wasn’t any of those things. When I discovered him, quite by accident, I didn’t know anybody else who had ever heard of him, and he had already “left the building”, so to speak. To this day, I only know a handful of people who are familiar with his name. He’s still underground, only now he really IS!
So, doesn’t a film like this potentially HELP Hick’s mission in the long run, by turning on more people to his philosophy and perhaps opening the door to them discovering his real material?

Just a thought.

By: Tony Malone

Tony Malone — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:41:00 +0000

this video is in my opinion a slap in the face to Bill Hicks. I don’t care what the sell outs say now they could correct their mistakes now the people are waking up. I would love to see them confess to the television watching sheeple how much he was censored and what his message really was. Thanks Bill, RIP

By: Kim Flåten

Kim Flåten — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:30:00 +0000

! Bill IS Alex !

By: david benning

david benning — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:30:00 +0000

Every mainstream comedian, including many who were interviewed for this rather pathetic “doc-omedy” (an attempt to margainalize Bill Hicks by pretending he was ever “mainstream material”) is a sell-out to one degree or another, whether it’s the sell-out of sell-outs, “Dave” Letterman, or the well-admired George Carlin. There is an exacting price for “fame” and to Bill Hicks credit, he NEVER paid it. I don’t think Bill Hicks is the greatest comedian from a technical standpoint, I don’t laugh at all of his gags, but he doesn’t do one “gag” that doesn’t make me think in a provocative direction, be it personally uncomfortable or personally enlightening. It’s his unwillingness to compromise, ultimately, that defines him, it’s his “failure” to achieve the mainstream success that his less celebral, less deserving, colleagues enjoye, which endears us to him. This production may appear as a benign vehicle designed to bring overdue exposure to the too-short professional career of a gifted comedian, but I assure you that it’s true purpose is to mis-lead and give the false impression that in spite of Bill Hick’s death, “everything is okay”, because the mainstream gets it, the mainstream can look at itself and critically analyze its past shortcomings and the proof is right before you in all the glowing platitudes of what were Bill Hick’s – mainstream-accepted, sell-out – COMPETITORS. This isn’t a film about Bill Hicks, it’s a film that uses “Bill Hicks” as a device to make you think that all of the people interviewed, in spite of their “mainstream” status, are just like Bill, and just like you or me, too, in their appreciation of his genius. Virtually every comedian who appears in this TV fakery (not every single one, certainly) is using the memory of “Bill Hicks” to associate themselves favorably with his message, even though what they truly represent, and what this fakery represents, is the antithesis of genuine-ness. Look for the pyramid symbology (which marks their territory) that is implanted within this film and listen to the dialogue that accompanies its presence. It occurs during the interview of one particular subject, and they cut back to him 3 or 4 times. The pyramid is the focus of the camera, not the subject, which is a dead-giveaway about the intentions behind this admittedly seductive (but ultimately dodgey) “remembrance”(“like a dream”). Bill Hicks was an original who didn’t fit into this make-believe world of television amd fame. This make-believe world wants you to know they realize the error of their ways and can do better the next time a round peg tries to fit into their square holes. As Mr. Hicks might sheepishly say, “WAKE-THE-FUCK-UP!”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:52:00 +0000

Pure Genius

The suck your own c*ck joke is the just the funniest thing ever.
I’m just waiting for the next evolutionary step.

G’bye Bill

Love ya.

By: avd420

avd420 — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:23:00 +0000

All I want to say is. Thanks Bill.