American: The Bill Hicks Story Page #6
it was definitely depressing.
LA was something that had to be
done. It was the next step. You had to go.
I cried, of course, and I said, "Bill...
"nobody will say
a thing if you don't go. "
And he said, "Mom, this is hard for me
so I'm going, so please stop crying.
"If I don't make it, I'll come back.
But I've got to try. "
That's how he lived the rest of his life.
I mean, he had girlfriends and relationships.
But certainly life on the road as a comedian,
there's a lot of time by yourself.
I was working at the Comedy
Store and Bill came up one afternoon.
Pale, bad haircut, had a suitcase with him.
He said, "I'm here to be a comic",
and I explained to him about amateur nights.
I got lucky, and was passed
on my first audition. Bill did too.
The difficult part was stage time
once you became a regular.
Bill was in a hurry too.
He had an impatience about him.
But you went there to be on stage,
to hone your performing abilities,
and, you know, to showcase for producers.
I remember
we went out to visit him.
Being on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles
at the world-famous Comedy Store
where people like Robin Williams and Richard
Pryor and Billy Crystal also performed
and then Bill Hicks.
That was the Mecca for comedy
and Bill got his name up there.
OK, there's one for the books
right there, you know.
and that was pretty clear.
You know, he would call me up
in these fits of inspiration
and go, "You have to get down here, we got
to do this script. It's our key out of this. "
I'd already decided
that that's what I was gonna do,
so I left the University of Oregon
and drove south to Los Angeles.
I remember knocking at the door
and it was an intense moment.
I had the map out
and I was going, "Dnde sta..."
And, "Sir, you can't come in here."
"Where... dnde sta the olives? They
chopp the olives?" "Sir, you can't. Please. "
And he goes, "Come on in,"
and of course it was just tiny,
and we would wind up
living there for two years.
I'd driven 11 hours because Steve wanted to go
down to the Comedy Store. I said, "Sure."
We got in his car, and drove down to
Hollywood and I walk into the Comedy Store.
This is it, you know,
the ground zero of stand-up comedy.
He always went up really early in the show
like second or third.
He never swore. He was the clean-cut comic.
It was a nice way to restart
a new chapter of our friendship.
I think we both knew that we weren't
gonna be working together as stand-ups
cos he had already
gone on to be successful.
all this was leading to a script.
If we could sell a script, well, then,
that's when you get can excited.
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