The Genius of Bill Hicks

the jurogan experience the other thing i like about this place is that we were talking about before that it's a blue city surrounded by a red state i love that it keeps it in check sure you know it's there's there's something about that and it's just uh this whole town it's like texas itself is a very rebellious place and this is where kinnison started and this is where bill hicks started sure and there's something about that that's like that's it's baked into their appreciation for comedy i mean those guys put texas on the map as far as comedy because people thought about comedy they thought of new york thought of la maybe san francisco maybe chicago boston for sure but they didn't think of houston and two of the best of all time came out of houston houston's a great comedy city and also you look at the you can tell their texas comics because religion is such a big part of both their acts yeah and you feel that that's like the texan in them i mean i i connect i mean bill hicks is he's like the biggie smalls of comedy because the amount of work he did it's gold and he died so [ __ ] young he liked five albums dude i think he died at like 34 or something something like that pancreatic cancer and you re-listen to those albums dude those albums whenever comics call bill hicks overrated i'm like you're a [ __ ] idiot bill hicks is great and he and you know what's great about bill hicks so many comics now with his ideology would only perform in like sf and portland and burlington vermont that dude's doing he's taking that act to alabama that's [ __ ] cool that's why he's bombing so he did the road constantly oh dude the flying saucer tour when you're like he's those albums i'm dying laughing too you're listening to one of the greatest comics of all time bombing and he released this for us he's [ __ ] bombing he's he's calling the crowd dumb yeah and it's not like just some comics it's a great comic calling crowds dumb there's something beautiful about that he's so [ __ ] angry on stage but it was like beautiful anger it was earned anger well everything was interesting even if he was bombing what he was saying was interesting brilliant yeah it was just in that was like one of his tenets of comedy is uh even if you're not going to be funny be interesting he was lenny bruce for us i listen to lenny bruce and i'm like it's a little it doesn't resonate for me i understand that he's brilliant i understand we that we need him but like bill hicks was like that for guys like us who were like we he made it he made it cool you know he made you feel like a hack like you were just telling jokes and he was up there talking about young man on acid thought he could fly you know like to write about positive drug stories yeah that's a brilliant brilliant bit it's a brilliant bit it's a pro-drug bit from a guy who was clean and sober at the time you know he's talking about the great times that he had when he's doing drugs i mean it was also everything was so well worded it was so smart you know it was uh it was just a completely interesting kind of comedy and it changed so many people's way of comedy to the point where the punch line in atlanta when you had performed there in the green room somebody wrote in the green room quit trying to be hicks yeah yeah he had his rules of comedy and he also some of them i'm like all right he was like never asked the crowd how they're doing i'm like that one's hard we can get we can do that that's fine so many people imitated him was what the point of quit trying to be hicks was of course they were all trying to do that they were all trying to be him you know and they would go on stage with some [ __ ] half big point about the government or taxes or something they they it's like so often with great comics you miss what the beauty of them was is that hicks at his core was silly and funny and when he got self-righteous that's kind of when he lost me sometimes when he was like kind of condescending in the crowd i was kind of like i don't love this as much as when you're just doing great jokes like i love that bit he does i love you know it's in his half hour on hbo and he's like i i hate when uh i love watching people in aspen smoke cigarettes not knowing they're done inhaling and he does the act out and he just keeps blowing because of the smoke and it's like that's a great [ __ ] [ __ ] yeah that's a silly observational joke and you're like oh that dude was great at political stuff social commentary religious stuff but then he could just do a [ __ ] observational bit yeah he's one of the all-time greats so when people write him off as being overrated it's all in the context of time you have to think about it that way if you go and listen to lenny bruce it doesn't make any sense to us because everything has already been understood and covered like all the things that he's talking about that are groundbreaking back then they were people like what is oh my god what is happening like this guy's breaking down society no one can do this no one had done that before but now everybody does it so when you hear him do it and then the things he's saying the world has moved on so much from 1963 today that it's impossible to like it's impossible to he still had some jokes that worked today he had one joke he goes you know it's against the law to be homosexual so what do they do they put you in jail with a bunch of men who want to have sex with you that's a great bit it's a great bit and that's a bit from like what 65 or something that's the thing it's like it's like watching basketball in the 60s and you're like seeing chamberlain and you're like well there's no jordan without this [ __ ] exactly and you know who's jordan carl and pryor right yeah so you got to take pride also i love that he was like a cool jew like so often like jews are like oh boy i'm [ __ ] i i love when how often did cool jews pop up and show but like he's one of the coolest one of the coolest elliot gould i was like grateful for elliot gould i'm like guys like that and i'm like well you're not just doing the oh shucks my my [ __ ] i'm so nervous and i have allergies i'm like no be [ __ ] be like be yourself you be cool is jeff goldblum jewish i don't know that's a name is jewish as [ __ ] that's a jewish name he's a cool guy he's a very cool guy that's what he's going to get to great [ __ ] he's a smart science guy i've been rewatching larry sanders and he's so [ __ ] funny he's great and everything that's a great show he's great as the scientist in jurassic park yes he's jewish there you go cool jewish guy cool yeah but lenny bruce was like he was uh he was a real pioneer like there was no other i mean there was mort saul who was doing political but he doesn't get his shine no he just passed away i mean he he's tall yeah yeah mortal didn't get a shine because he was so of his time like the guy holding the newspaper when like lenny bruce broke through was mort saul i guess you know the problem is sometimes you live too long you you you ain't che guevara if you live till [ __ ] 78 right you're che guevara when you die in your prime right and your and your young picture is shown everywhere right but when you live too long sometimes it ain't as cool yes right that's cool so a guy like lenny bruce died in the most romantic way possible heroin overdose on the bathroom floor yeah that's what you want from that kind you want to go out like hendrix or janice joplin that's when you become [ __ ] this [ __ ] i mean bill hicks too like who knows maybe he would have had a shitty podcast maybe he would have been great who the [ __ ] knows how people age right i think he would have been great he would have been great he was never not i don't i don't think i mean imagine if he had like a like hbo show where he just did like like almost like bill maher's style where he just did that you're like whoa that'd be [ __ ] cool huh do you know who had a great story about him carrot top really because bill used to make fun of him and carrot tops act or in bill hicks actually make fun of carrot top brother and he had this bit about uh he goes yeah carrot top it's for people who think he goes uh gallagher's too heady was just a prop joke yeah and um carrick scott carrot top is a [ __ ] sweetheart of a guy he's heard he's the man he's so cool and i always felt like he got [ __ ] with for no reason like his act is funny it's funny [ __ ] but he was always like a punch line to comedians like that he was not one of us not a real comic [ __ ] him and it was always like people would [ __ ] all over carrot top i don't think norm did him any favors in that interview and he just kept trashing him because norm was so cool that i think like when you see a guy as cool as norm doing that right i think it hurts well it hurts if you're sensitive right like if you're a comic and someone's trashing you it should be funny yeah there should be some humor to it you know what i mean yeah but sometimes guys get isolated and he was very scott's very isolated you know he's out there in the world on his own not really connected to comics in the same way so hicks before he died was really sick and uh he came to one of scott's shows so carrot top's doing a show and hicks came to the show and hung he wanted those last few months to last forever he goes no man i don't [ __ ] hate you it's just jokes i'm sorry

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Length: 8min 54sec (534 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 07 2022