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Published by Constable 19/02/2004, 2004, softcover, illustrated, 308 pages, condition: new.
'I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out' Bill Hicks could have been on all the chat shows. He could have had his own show on prime time. He could have got rich and fat and frightened. But Hicks didn't go the easy way. He turned down the offers Satan made him. Instead he figured out his best shot at truth and then he said it. He attacked the lies that justified and prettified the carnage of the First Gulf War. He attacked the easy surrender of art to commerce, the demeaning cynicism of the marketing culture and the preposterous power of the mainstream media to confuse and corrupt. This is the first collection of all his stand-up routines, with extracts from his diaries, notebooks, letters and final writings. It reveals Hicks' work as both brilliant conventional stand-up comedy and as more interesting and an invitation to a life lived without fear.
Bill Hicks 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..
Hicks died of pancreatic cancer on February 26, 1994, at the age of 32. In subsequent years his work gained significant acclaim in creative circles particularly after a series of posthumous album releases which resulted in a substantial cult following. In 2007, he was number six on Channel 4's list of the "100 Greatest Stand-Up Comics", and rose to No. 4 on the 2010 list. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him number 13 on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.
