American: The Bill Hicks Story Page #4

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Cos Mrs Hicks calls Scott's mom,

says, "Is Bill over there?"

"No, they went

down to the comedy workshop. " "Oh. "

So when Bill gets home, he gets nailed.

Mrs Hicks calls my parents, and I get nailed.

It went from being thrilled

with the fact that, "Hey, we're doing this"

to, "Now what do we do?"

We're comics, we have to work on this career.

We can do it.

And just as I thought that,

my father came home and said, "I've bought

a business in Klamath Falls, Oregon,

"and we're moving in July."

I was devastated, and I go,

"I gotta tell you something.

"In July I'm gonna be moving

to Klamath Falls, Oregon. "

And there was just this silence.

Bill didn't exhibit any emotion about it.

It was just one more f***ing thing

we were gonna have to deal with

and in typical fashion

we just began joking about it.

"When you get up there to Calamity Falls..."

"It's Klamath Falls. " "Whatever.

"You're gonna meet a little girlfriend, you're

gonna be happy, you're gonna enjoy yourself. "

"Yeah, but I'm missing my friend."

"Oh, you'll make new friends."

You know, so we joked a lot about it

but there was this idea that it was all over.

What were we gonna do?

What could we possibly do?

He never focused on doing solo stand-up.

All our stuff was about characters.

It was about creating these worlds.

So I think when I left,

he just threw himself into music and the band.

I couldn't imagine

Bill performing without Dwight

or Dwight performing without Bill,

and I thought the three of us

were gonna be doing music forever.

Dwight took off. And poof, he was gone.

And at the time, too, I had actually seen

Dwight perform comedy without Bill

but I hadn't seen

Bill perform comedy without Dwight.

And so I wasn't sure how it was gonna go.

A big hand for the very funny Mr Bill Hicks.

Yeah!

Whoa!

Thank you.

You guys remember.

I gotta see if this is universal or not.

- Remember this thing called flinching?

- Yeah.

You know what this is, you guys? Some guy

would come up to you and they'd go, "Hey."

You'd go, "God! Watch out, man!"

And he'd go, "Flinch. I owe you a poke."

The guy would go, "Oh, sh*t, I flinched.

You're poking me."

You remember that? First time it happened

to me, this guy comes up, says, "Hey, Hicks."

I went, "God! Get away from me."

And he goes, "Ah, flinched. I owe you a poke."

I said, "Get away from me, you jerk."

Principal's walking by.

The principal goes, "What's going on here?"

And that guy goes, "He flinched.

He won't let me poke him."

And I said, "This guy's trying to hit me."

And the principal went, "Did you flinch?"

I remember Kevin telling me

early on that he's gonna be a comedian

and he writes comedy,

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