[kj] OT: Stop this man

[Brendan]

Testify! Check out his first appearance on Shitterman, his first joke is
that classic preacher one, FUCK he's a good performer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_VURr6jnWQ


> Bill spent a lot of time with the mighty Sam Kinison - they were best

> mates for years.

>

> Sam used to be a preacher !!!!!!!!!!!!!

>

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> You're preaching to the choir Olly, I was just getting Ade back for his

> sacriligious comments about Soundarden being an STP rip off, which had me

> foaming from all orifices and, for a change, speechless :)

>

> Me and Ade are both rabid Bill Hicks fans...I mean I'm a Tool fan so it

> goes without saying, they put a bunch of his soundbites on their track

> Third Eye (to which I swear i always thought the lyrics went 'brian opened

> my 3rd eye' as opposed to 'prying open my 3rd eye' :)

>

> HOWEVER...check out some Sam Kinison on Youtube...with Bill Hicks in mind.

> I think we've been over that one, they were good mates etc. But so much so

> that Hicks seems to have picked up some of Kinison's speech habits,

> inflection, emphasis...hard to describe but give it a look with that in

> mind and you might see what I mean. Perhaps they were both channeling some

> black overcoated chain-smoking misanthropic alien entity from Sirius...

>

> Talking about plagarism, anyone catch the Joe Rogan vs Carlos Mencilia

> debate? This may sound weird, but if you watch any Joe Rogan I really

> think he's taken the torch from Hicks in a lot of ways...for a guy I used

> to think was a meathead reality tv / UFC presenter he's fucking funny and

> insightful IMO. Armchair alchemist too, always on about DMT and his

> isolation chamber and weed.

>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gVYfDCgYxk

>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grcqs9cDuN8

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>

>

>> Bill hicks, who died of cancer at a young age in the earky90s (like

>> 1993, right?) -- get all his material from DENIS LEARY!?! Sacrilege!

>>

>> Hicks was pre-Leary, a real singular gem in American comedy. He was more

>> like a proto-Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert type figure but with a much

>> more darker, bitter side. The big social issues when he was doing comedy

>> were the US's inane drug war, Dan Quayle, the dumbing down of music to

>> vanilla Ice proportions, etc., etc.

>>

>> -Oliver

>>

>>

>> Brendan wrote:

>>> Didn't he get all of his material from Denis Leary?

>>>

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