[kj] OT: Bill Hicks

[Brendan]

That's not a mike. Sorry. Um...you should probably wash your hands.


> hello hello,  testing

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>   save me from Tomorrow..

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> From: fluw <fluwdot at earthlink.net>

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

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> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 8:29:14 AM

> Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Bill Hicks

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> Leary is so pedestrian, he has never said anything profound or clever.

> Most of his schtick is being a grumpy amer-irish boy and saying things

> that grumpy knuckle heads who buy too much coffee like to hear. His talent

> limits him to a regional east coast niche. Â Â 

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> From:gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On

> Behalf Of Alexander Smith

> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 6:15 AM

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> Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Bill Hicks

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> Dennis Leary is rarely as earnest and sanctimonious as Bill Hicks was

> capable of being. I love both, but it's not really a fair comparison. 

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> Alex in NYC

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> On Jan 30, 2009, at 1:34 AM, Brendan Quinn wrote:

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> Let Hicks=Soundgarden, and Let Leary=Stone  Temple  Pilots  

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> If Soundgarden=TotalGodheadOnEarth and STP=BigFatYawn, then Leary=?

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> Please show working.

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> From:Â gathering-bounces at misera.net

> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of ade

> Sent:Â Friday, 30 January 2009 07:24

> To:Â A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> Subject:Â Re: [kj] OT: Bill Hicks

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> LOL, don't forget Denis Leary ;)

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> From wikipeedo: 'an industry joke began to circulate about Leary's

> transformation and subsequent success (roughly; "Question: Why is Denis

> Leary a star while Bill Hicks is unknown? Answer: Because there's no cure

> for cancer"'

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> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On

> Behalf Of Brendan Quinn

> Sent:Â 29 January 2009 04:57

> To:Â 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'

> Subject:Â Re: [kj] OT: Bill Hicks

> The only other comedians I’d put in that category (and none as good as

> Hicks) would be George Carlin, and lately, Joe Rogan, who’s a surprising

> find actually.

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

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> PS: I haven’t watched this in ages so apologies if it sucks, but from

> memory it’s pretty cool.

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> From:Â gathering-bounces at misera.net

> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Bette Dillinger

> Sent:Â Thursday, 29 January 2009 12:34

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> Subject:Â [kj] OT: Bill Hicks

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> Hey everyone!

>     Strange, angering, yet I am still gonna try to catch it.  In the

> US David Letterman will be showing on Friday, the 30th, 11:30 EST the

> routine of Bill Hicks' that was never aired by Letterman in 1994 because

> it was considered too "controversial".  The routine that sullied his

> relationship with the media to a degree.  

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> His mother Mary will also be a guest (the irony that the legal executor of

> the estate is the ex attorney for Billy Ray Cyrus, but then you can't

> make this shit up.).........

> Damn, it has been 14 years!  Are there any comedians that are

> flying under the radar that should be checked out?  I am still looking

> for one whose voice is so resonant with truth and humour.

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> Bette       

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