Comedians usually suck. Really suck. Stand up comedy is a dead art form for the most part though there have always (and will always) be some comedians who move (in their acts) beyond the tired cliches and into a territory that can only be described as proto-political performance art.
Last night, as I drunkenly came home I turned on the showtime and an old routine by Bill Hicks was playing. Bill was a shinning light on the earth, a combination of Sam Kinnison, Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, Hunter S. Thompson & Allan Ginsburg. He was a drug addict, punk rocker, revolutionary and nut.
He mixed politics, sex and his own personal issues and blead them out on the stage, he offered a great subversive super-ego to the american popular imagination, never didactic but always funny. Go out and listen to something by him. Buy it, steal it, share it take a drink and and feel bad about laughing because you know you are laughing at your own insecurities.
Posted by thickeye at March 13, 2004 01:27 PM | TrackBack