American: The Bill Hicks Story Page #6

Synopsis: Photo-animated feature documentary, uniquely narrated by the 10 people who knew Bill best.
Production: Variance Films
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
NOT RATED
Year:
2009
102 min
$90,275
Website
85 Views


I was really taken back,

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.

He was where he wanted to be,

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.

The whole focus was

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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