[kj] OT: Stop this man

[Brendan Quinn]

Right fucker you just earned yourself an extra load of bricks in your daily
quota...*mumble mumble*

OVER-rated?! Under-rated if anything...

Lemme look up Leary, haven't heard him in ages but I used to dig his stuff.


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Sent: Friday, 21 March 2008 12:46 a.m.
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Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Stop this man


I'd get all hot bothered over the suggestion that Dennis Leary  
plagiarized Bill Hicks, but I simply don't give enough of a fuck.

Both are slavishly overrated. Especially Hicks.

Alex in NYC



On Mar 19, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Brendan wrote:


> Yeah but as soon as one of them plagarises the other's material,  

> game over.

>

> Well...unless it was the other way around of course ;)

>

> Leary was in taht dreadful fucking show on telly about the fireman  

> wasn't

> he? Ick. All I ever saw were billboards of his face all over town,  

> that

> got heavily plugged. Which generally says to me it's gonna be pants.

>

>> Hicks and Leary really aren't that similar. I mean yeah -- both

>> thought-provoking, smart and angry (and smokers), but it goes well

>> beyond that.

>>

>> Alex in NYC

>>

>>

>>

>> On Mar 19, 2008, at 6:33 PM, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

>>

>>> UM -- BILL HICKS DID *NOT* COPY DENIS LEARY! Denis Leary's No Cure

>>> for Cancer came out after Hicks had passed away afaik!

>>>

>>> Hicks died of cancer in the early 90s.

>>>

>>> -Oliver

>>>

>>>

>>> ade wrote:

>>>> Totally. Particularly the smoking sketch :)

>>>>

>>>> Sadly, I saw Leary do it first, loved 'No Cure for Cancer' & then

>>>> when I found Hicks, well, it sort've tainted anything Leary does

>>>> for ever more... irony in action - Bill gets nowhere, except in the

>>>> UK & then dies early, whilst the rip-off merchant does exceedingly

>>>> well for himself.

>>>>

>>>> I'm sure some twat could make that into some sort of boring

>>>> political example.

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

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