Bill Hicks
Bill Hicks
William Melvin "Bill" Hickswas an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician. His material, encompassing a wide range of social issues including religion, politics, and philosophy, was controversial, and often steeped in dark comedy. He criticized consumerism, superficiality and banality within the media and popular culture, which he characterized as oppressive tools of the ruling class that keep people "stupid and apathetic"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth16 December 1961
CityValdosta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren't partyin'.
Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid.
Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Go back to bed America... you are free to do as we tell you... you are free to do as we tell you...
People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.
We really are All One....this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.
I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.
You want a better world...? Legalize pot right now. ...end the deficit? Legalize pot right now...biggest cash crop in America.
As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.
A lotta Christians wear crosses 'round their necks; do you think if Jesus comes back he ever wants to see another cross?
I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us...to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells...
Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become.
Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.
I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.