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William Melvin Hicks (December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994) [1] [2] 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 .
May 10, 2024 · Bill Hicks (born December 16, 1961, Valdosta, Georgia—died February 26, 1994, Little Rock, Arkansas) was an American stand-up comedian who was considered a “comedian’s comedian” and who was a star in Britain, though he never experienced wide success in the United States during his career in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Feb 26, 2014 · By Patton Oswalt. Feb 26, 20142:52 PM. The great comedian Bill Hicks, who died Feb. 26, 1994. Film still of American: The Bill Hicks Story courtesy Variance Films. The following piece was...
Sep 11, 2015 · 10 Jokes that Prove Bill Hicks was the Best Comic of His Time. Out tomorrow, Bill Hicks: The Complete Collection features every album and special the comedian ever released, along with more...
Feb 26, 2019 · Bill Hicks 25 years on: The stand-up comedian whose uncompromising attack held the powerful to account. Cult Southern comic denounced Washington mendacity and corporate greed without fear in...
Overview. Born. December 16, 1961 · Valdosta, Georgia, USA. Died. February 26, 1994 · Little Rock, Arkansas, USA (pancreatic cancer) Birth name. William Melvin Hicks. Nicknames. Goatboy, Willy, The Cabrito Kid. The Dark Poet. Prince of Darkness. Height. 6′ 1″ (1.85 m) Mini Bio.
Jun 3, 1994 · The life of Bill Hicks -- Poised for stardom, the irreverent comedian battled censors and cancer before his death on February 26th. By Robert Seidenberg. Published on June 3, 1994 04:00AM EDT....
In Bill Hicks’ senior year his parents moved to Little Rock, Arkansas. Bill stayed at home and began doing comedy every night. He graduated in 1980, barely,he acknowledged: “I was what they call an underachiever,” and in the spring of that year he moved to L.A., living and performing there, becoming a regular at the Comedy Store in ...
Jul 19, 2015 · Sun 19 Jul 2015 // 11:00 UTC. Feature It’s 25 years since Bill Hicks took the Montreal Just For Laughs comedy festival by storm with a blistering, intelligent comic set that was basically his, then new, debut album Dangerous. Within two years the semi-underground stand-up was a regular on British TV in-between successfully touring across the ...
Feb 26, 1994 · On February 26, 1994, comedian Bill Hicks died at the age of 32 of pancreatic cancer, right as his career seemed to be taking off. Hicks, a legend in the comedy world, is far less of a household name to mainstream crowds, most likely due to his premature death. To those unfamiliar with Hicks, his humor is perhaps comparable to George Carlin.
