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
I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.
Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.
Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.
Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.
We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.
It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
It seems to me that there will be a point in out development or our evolution where you put your guns aside.
What are you reading for?
Nonsmokers--this is for you and you only. Ready? Nonsmokers die every day. Sleep tight.
Courtroom for Ted Bundy's trial is packed with women, trying to meet him and give him love letters and wedding-f-king-proposals...and the first thought that enters my mind is, "And I'm not getting laid." What am I doing wrong?
I got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin' [puts mic to his neck and speaks as if he had a mechanical larynx] 'good evening everybody, remember me, smoking's bad. [puts cigarette to neck and mimics smoking it] Eeww. You ever seen somebody do that? I've seen someone do that. Let me tell you something — if you're smoking out of a hole in your neck [mimics it again] I'd think about quitting. And that's just me, ya know.