Bill Hicks
Bill Hicks
William Melvin "Bill" Hickswas an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician. His material, encompassing a wide range of social issues including religion, politics, and philosophy, was controversial, and often steeped in dark comedy. He criticized consumerism, superficiality and banality within the media and popular culture, which he characterized as oppressive tools of the ruling class that keep people "stupid and apathetic"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth16 December 1961
CityValdosta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?
In Australia...they celebrate Easter the same...by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit...left chocolate eggs in the night
The war on drugs to me is absolutely phoney, its so obviously phoney, ok? It's a war against our civil rights, that's all it is. They're using it to make us afraid to go out at night, afraid of each other, so that we lock ourselves in our homes and they get suspending our rights one by one.
I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.
People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction.
They also have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.
Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Beleive or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
If I thought the Jews killed God, I'd worship the Jews.
I find it ironic that people who are against things that cause sexual thoughts are generally fundamentalist Christians who also believe you should be fruitful and multiply.
To make marijuana against the law is like saying God made a big mistake.
Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become.