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Bill Hicks, who died 25 years ago this week. Photograph: Rob Watkins/Retna Pictures Comedy 'Bill Hicks was a bit misogynist' - young comics reassess the standup legend He was the Kurt.


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Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were rrreal fucking high on drugs. The Beatles were so fucking high they let Ringo sing a few tunes.". ― Bill Hicks.


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Songs That Sample Drugs Have Done Good Things. Third Eye. Tool (1996) Read the lyrics. See all of "Drugs Have Done Good Things" by Bill Hicks's samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and.


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Bill Hicks 42.4K subscribers Subscribe Subscribed 4.7K 485K views 8 years ago Sane Man was Bill Hicks' first full-length comedy special, taped in 1989. This is the early years and the.


Looking at Bill Hicks, Houstonbred comedy legend

Deepest gratitude for making us laugh while opening our hearts & minds, R.I.P.


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This Is Your Brain on Drugs was a large-scale US anti-narcotics campaign by Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) launched in 1987, that used three televised public service announcements. Comedian Bill Hicks spoke negatively about the commercial frequently during his stand-up routine,.


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William Melvin Hicks (December 16, 1961 - February 26, 1994) was an American stand-up comedian and satirist. His material—encompassing a wide range of social issues including religion, politics, and philosophy—was controversial and often steeped in dark comedy . At the age of 16, Hicks began performing at the Comedy Workshop in Houston, Texas.


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Drugs Have Done Good Things Lyrics. See, I think drugs have done some good things for us! I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight.


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[I] laughed my ass off and went about my day." However, despite the fun and surreal experiences he had, Hicks' life had been in downward spiral because of drugs and alcohol, and his brother Steve Hicks remembered what happened when he went sober: "In 1988, Bill quit doing drugs and quit drinking and cleaned up his life.


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1 viewer 4 Contributors The War on Drugs Lyrics I don't do drugs. anymore. [laughs] Haven't had a drug today. Oh God, I used to do lots of drugs. I'm not ashamed of it. You know. Had no.


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Funny, Dream, Witty "Sane Man". Documentary, Comedy, 1989. Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense. Bill Hicks


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Drugs helped Bill explore expanded awareness, use his intellect and imagination to travel. Kevin Booth said of Hicks, "Bill was the first person I ever met whose goal it was to become enlightened." Together they got into meditation, astrology and telepathy. At first it was explosive rants to bludgeon his audiences into submission.


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Great Times on Drugs Lyrics [The sound of wind blowing over a frozen tundra] [Heckler:] You got a bad attitude. [The audience whoops] [Hicks:] [singing] "We've only just begun." I got.


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Just gotta know your way around them, is all" - Bill Hicks. The War on Drugs campaign began in 1971 when Richard Nixon declared drugs as 'public enemy number one' [2]. The War on Drugs issued numerous hard-hitting polices costing billions of dollars, yet resulting in little success. Hicks conveyed the War on Drugs' failure not only in.


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Bill Hicks (born December 16, 1961, Valdosta, Georgia—died February 26, 1994, Little Rock, Arkansas) American stand-up comedian who was considered a "comedian's comedian" and who was a star in Britain, though he never experienced wide success in the United States during his career in the 1980s and early 1990s. His life was cut short at age 32 by pancreatic cancer, but in death his.