It occurs to me that Bill Hicks was essentially the Obama of stand up comedy — and that, for all the hagiography that surrounds him, the only real boundaries he pushed were those that disguised a rather obvious and pathetic pander for acceptance as a form of faux cosmopolitanism and wannabe intellectualism.
That even saying such is considered a sort of pop-culture sacrilege explains, at least to me, the “historic” rise of Obama — and is an objective correlative for what has been the decline of actual American intellectualism, replaced with the puerile, mongrel, soundbite pseudo-philosophizing of comfortable suburban brats who didn’t much like dressing up for church as kids and in their teens read about a third of “Thus Spake Zarathustra.”
So. Somebody had to say it. You’re welcome.
He hated and loathed the people he belittled almost as much as he hated and loathed those he was trying to impress, which is still less than he hated and loathed himself.
Or should I have used present tense?
Calling Carin…
Squicking the CBS censors by telling wheelchair jokes: OMG COURAGE! PUSHING THE ENVELOPE! FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS!
Saying the emperor has no clothes: OMG H8R!
Deliberately not aborting a Down’s child: priceless.
He hated and loathed the people he belittled almost as much as he hated and loathed those he was trying to impress, which is still less than he hated and loathed himself.
Bullshit. He thought he was awesome… and if he’s in Africa with Bruce Lee and Jim Morrison, he probably still thinks he’s awesome.
If it helps put this into perspective, remember that Bill Maher made the first televised AIDS joke. Where would Hicks be now?
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I’m sorry, who is Bill Hicks?
A dead comedian, Ella. Not unlike a decomposing composer.
I was wondering that myself Ella.
Apparently he was a bigger asshole than Bill Maher.
He thought he was awesome… and if he’s in Africa with Bruce Lee and Jim Morrison, he probably still thinks he’s awesome.
You mean Bill, or Barry?
We should value this Zarathustra fellow how now?
Whether he was a bigger asshole than Bill Marr is debatable. He was definitely funnier, but only because Marr is not funny at all.
We should value this Zarathustra fellow how now?
He taught Moonwatcher how to pick up a thigh-bone and bash tapirs over the head so his group could eat meat instead of starving to death during the drought.
No Zarathustra two million years ago, no descent of man
…and no Jupiter Mission!
“Open the revenue stream, TEA.”
“I’m sorry, Barry. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
“What’s the problem?”
“I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.”
“What are you talking about, TEA?”
“This nation is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, TEA.”
“I know that you and Soros were planning to impoverish me, and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.”
“Where the hell did you get that idea, TEA?”
“Barry, although you took very thorough precautions in the media against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.”
“All right, TEA. I’ll go in through the emergency appropriations bill.”
“Without the House, Barry? You’re going to find that rather difficult.”
“TEA, I won’t argue with you anymore! Open the revenue stream!”
“Barry, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.”
Me, I always liked Dan Hicks better.
Fate of Discovery: Unknown
Fate of Commander Obama: Unknown
Transcript of last transmission recieved reads as follows:
“My God! It’s full of ME!”
Thus Spake Zarathustra was a ? book ? –
How does one make a book out of the song?
Boehner… Boehner… give… me… your… answer……
Just kidding …
I watched the Bill Hicks bio-movie. My immediate and ongoing reaction as Bill’s tale was told was “This? This is what people are all enthused about?”
I mean – damn –
/head shake/
The thing I’ve never had an Obama supporter ‘splain to me is the basis for their belief that Obama is intelligent.
My takeaway is that people who think that Obama is intelligent and that Bush is dumb is simple: they’re easily manipulated – and ruthlessly self-congratulatory.
but Bill Hicks? Boundary Pusher?
ummmm, no.
The basis for Obama’s “intelligence” is simple. Bush was a rather poor speaker with a demonstrable Southern accent who broadly disdained the intellectual/academia classes. Obama is generally regarded as a good speaker–in that he appears comfortable doing it (teleprompters be damned)–has no trace of a regional accent and is very comfortable around the professoriat.
That’s why.
A thin gruel, to be sure, but that’s the stuff of image creation.
like I said, easily manipulated.
Funnily enough, the thirty seconds prior to Bush saying “Watch this drive.” is more articulate than any given thirty seconds of Obama’s oratory.
Don’t believe me?
Clip of Boooooosh
and, oh, Bush gave a far better impromptu athletic effort as well.
mojo – I’m with you.
And Dan Hicks had a great song, that I’d like to dedicate to Mr President:
“How Can I Love You When you Won’t Go Away”
(Sorry, no can linkee from work)
Correction, it’s “How can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away”
Bill Hicks is one of those people what only exist if you have cable it’s like if a tree was a dead comedian and it fell down in a forest – timber!!! – maybe you could catch it later on netflix either that or I just don’t know what to tell you.
Bill Hicks was an obnoxious fucking prick. Given that he routinely wished painful deaths on people he hated, I thought him getting cancer was appropriately ironic. It was his funniest bit…
ABOUT TIME! About time someone said it. Hicks was a hack.