Title: Hicks Without Hype
Product review: Years ago I watched a young comedian I hadn't viewed before on a TV special from the Montreal Comedy Festival.He was a wow, with a devastatingly and savagely funny piece on the Gulf War which had just ended.Sadly having switched on part way through the piece I never found out who the comic was.I ached to be able to get hold of the piece on video and searched in vain for years looking for it.The comic was Bill Hicks and now,as then, his take on America and its place in the world has never been more relevant.This DVD contains some of that early footage,along with a great deal of his subsequent material.You don't always have to be totally in sympathy with views (his stance as a militant smoker for example) to find him seeringly funny.A man who makes you laugh whilst challenging a great many widely held assumptions.Watch Bill and you realise how trivial a great deal of contemporary comedy has become.We need more comics like him.
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