Bill Hicks Comedian

Bill Hicks Comedian

Bill Hicks Comedian

You may not realise it but comedy, just like music, has many, many sub-genres.

From the original but dated slapstick of Charlie Chaplin to the current slew of recent stand-ups such as Lee Evans and Michael McIntyre, the art of making people laugh has chopped and changed continuously over the course of its life. If there's one comedian that truly took the idea of comedy and turned it on its head though, it's the late, great Bill Hicks.

Born in 1961 in Georgia, U.S as William Melvin Hicks...,aka bill hicks comedian... broke into the comedy scene at an early age. At 17 his parents thought he was clinically insane, at 18 he was trying to book make-shift stand-up gigs anywhere he could and by his 20's the man was slowly become an underground sensation. With material covering drugs, politics, smoking, religion, alcoholism, the state of the US and the raising monster that was 'celebrity status', Hicks defied every comic-clich with one huge middle finger extended.

Bill Hicks comedian was never truly embraced by the mainstream, getting as far as an invite onto the Late Night with David Letterman show in 1984. It went well but a few lines had to be censored, something Hicks wasn't happy with. After another invite nearly ten years later in October of 1993 (just 5 months before his death) Hicks turned up and performed for the show but was once again censored, only this time it was his entire performance. Regardless of his cult stature and intelligent, bitingly truthful outlook on the world, his words were just too controversial to be accepted through the medium of TV. Too many people could be offended and the man himself was too much of a free spirit to be understood by the Hollywood eye.

Cancer then hit the comic in June of '93 but that didn't stop him, in fact the disease became part of his stand-up, another tell-tale sign that Bill Hicks comedian extraordinaire wasn't all too bothered with what people thought of him or what he said. Come February 1994, Hicks was just 32 and on his deathbed. His last words ever written came 19 days before his demise and those words were "I left in love, in laughter, and in truth and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit". Truer words were never spoken.

It goes without saying that this man from America was a legend, the pinnacle of left-wing comedy (if you can even call what he did 'comedy') and an advocate of the truth. Nothing he said adhered to 'rules' and nothing he did ever followed a simply, generic structure. He was a messiah to some and a devil to most, teaching his audiences the reality of life, civilization and the struggles of coming to terms with your own survival. Controversial he may have been but a genius he most certainly was. May he not only rest in peace but also stand as a shining example of how to reach out to people without selling your soul to the media.

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