documentary and I became immediately fascinated by this guy Bill Hicks today is
actually my all-time number one comedian, he is the reason I have a podcast or I’m doing my own podcast and I have him to thank for that anyway so his career today is it spans I mean it’s been decades is spans decades and I’m trying to say so this article is pretty much I think Bill Hicks he not only surpasses every other comedian that that I’ve listened to but I mean there’s tons of others I mean I never thought Lenny Bruce was funny I never thought Lenny Bruce was funny,, Richard prior to me was funny he was very different I love listening to Richard Pryor because Richard prior talks about what it was like growing growing up in a growing up in a in a brothel Pryor talked about you shooting out his wife’s tires he talked about his dad dying while he was fucking,, he knew how to take his own tragedies and turn them into and turn them into comedy gold anyway Hicks was I don’t think hicks was trying to emulate Pryor I think Hicks was actually trying to find his own voice and eventually he found his own voice I mean yeah he he would he said that he would do a little bit of woody Allen he would hear them tell jokes and then he would write the jokes down and he became like interested in doing comedy just from just from watching Johnny Carson as a little kid but later on is really when he started to study stand-up comedy and he was already a prodigy at this time I mean he he was a was a comedic prodigy from birth is in my opinion,, Hicks just had a swagger about him that was so beautiful when he was on stage he owned he owned he owned the room when he would go on stage he owned the room immediately here’s what I loved about Hicks if he did not feel that you were worthy of him he would walk he would walk the room he would walk the room my absolute favorite moment is when this is win this guy in the front row where he started screaming out freebird that was when the Freebird incident was born because if you watch the video you can see Hicks is slicing this heckler to pieces and I loved every minute of it and that’s what makes a perfect comic sorry but he was making fun of the girl who told him he sucked and he is parading around the stage he’s parading around mocking her and he just tells her I want you to go find a fucking soul you know he wasn’t ashamed of it wasn’t ashamed of shaming her in front of the audience, I hope that Hicks’s legacy continues I really want to continue because he deserves it an essay by Barry lee cusick
article by Barry lee cusick
