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Bill Hicks
American stand-up comedian. Hicks characterized his own performances as "Chomsky with dick jokes".
In 1990, he released his first album, Dangerous, did an HBO special, One Night Stand, and performed at Montreal's Just for Laughs festival. He was also part of a group of American stand-up comedians performing in London's West End in November. He was a huge hit in the UK and Ireland and continued touring there in 1991. That year, he also returned to the Just for Laughs festival and recorded his second album, Relentless.
Hicks made a brief detour into musical recording with the Marblehead Johnson album in 1992, the same year he met Colleen McGarr, who was to become his girlfriend and fiancée. In November of that year, he toured the UK. On that tour, he recorded the Revelations video for Channel 4 in England and the stand-up performance that would become Live at Oxford Playhouse and Salvation. He was voted "Hot Standup Comic" by Rolling Stone Magazine, and moved to Los Angeles again in early 1993.
Bill played the final show of his career at Caroline's in New York on January 6, 1994. Bill moved back to his parents' house in Little Rock, Arkansas shortly thereafter. He called his friends to say goodbye before he stopped speaking on February 14, and died in the presence of his parents at 11:20 p.m. on February 26, 1994 of pancreatic cancer. Bill was buried on the family plot in Leakesville, Mississippi.
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By far my favorite comedian of all time. He died way to young.
By far my favorite comedian of all time. He died way to young.
By far my favorite comedian of all time. He died way to young.
By far my favorite comedian of all time. He died way to young.
By far my favorite comedian of all time. He died way to young.
By far my favorite comedian of all time. He died way to young.
By far my favorite comedian of all time. He died way to young.
By far my favorite comedian of all time. He died way to young.