I’ve always liked Bill Hicks. He was funny, and I admired his honesty, courage, and lack of pretension.
But I don’t think he was ever as good a comic as he wanted to be, or as the world wanted him to HAVE been, after he died. I believe that if he hadn’t died of cancer, he would have just faded away slowly.
In death he became a tragic hero. But stories about heroes are usually exaggerated, if based on fact. He was too angry, with the world AND his own life, to be a true “stand-up comic”…he would have made one hell of a Crusader, though.
But not too many of those jobs are open anymore.
Anger is an Energy.
Inspirational Idea: Love
Grade: B
1/17/13: See ‘Pupdate: Documentary Grade Edits’. Grade: B-