
American: The Bill Hicks Story
Everyone comfy?
Get comfy!
Get comfy!
Cos the show's about to start!
Who do you ever pay to talk?
Maybe a preacher.
Maybe a lecturer. Possibly a politician.
But even those rarely.
Comedians are the only ones
that you pay to hear 'em talk.
Talk to me, make me listen.
News is supposed to be objective.
Isn't it supposed to be?
The news!
But every drug story is negative.
Oh, well, hold it!
I've had some killer fucking times on drugs.
Let's hear the whole story.
What Bill said will never change,
because it is the basic truths
and they are never wrong.
Plenty of people say
he is the best American comedian
the country has ever produced
and he was only 32 when he died.
- Bill Hicks!
Get out. You're everything that America
should be flushed down the toilet.
You turd. Get out!
"Hey, buddy, we're
Christians. We don't like what you said."
I said, "Then forgive me."
# The sergeant sent me
and my men on a search
# He wanted us to go out
and get the lay of the land
# We were to find
# The enemies of man...
Free yourself, folks. You're right.
You're right. Not those fuckers
who want to tell you how to think.
You're fucking right!
Sorry, wrong meeting. Again.
I keep getting my days mixed up.
From the moment I met Bill,
throughout our life, it was about laughs.
Cos I think our parents were just happy
being comfortable. "Can we just be quiet?
"And can we just go to church and be
distracted by our religion? It's orderly here. "
Growing up in that environment
you start to get a little antsy,
because clearly
there has to be something more.
Lyndon Johnson talked
about the great society back in the '60s
and I think he was keying into something
and that was
that America's so wealthy and powerful
that we have to do
something responsible with it.
we're gonna do the Peace Corps
or we're gonna make the world a better place.
And then I think that Vietnam stalled that.
So the generation that Bill and I came out of
was, we were looking around going,
"Well, there's got to be something else
we can do with all this. "
Bill was, uh...
I don't know, I just... He was interesting.
All of my children were special.
I had a girl. I had only a girl.
Then I had a boy.
And then I had a baby.
There was definitely something there that was
different from Steve and Lynn growing up.
But Bill... You should have known him,
is all I can say.
They were so much older.
Five and seven years' difference
is a lot of difference.
You couldn't do anything with him.
He was too little at that point.
Bill was seven
when we got to Houston.
Then we stayed there 12, 13 years.
Yeah.
He was just another kid
playing sports, you know.
It wasn't evident yet
where his life was gonna go.
And, of course,
by then he had met Dwight.
he was fast. He had a real strong constitution.
He could do things better and longer
than everyone else.
An unbelievable scrambler.
I was fast but I wasn't a very good scrambler
but I watched him and I just picked him apart
about what he was doing,
then I was scrambling all the way
to the end zone, no one would touch me.
After we'd played a few times,
I just remember everyone leaving
and us being alone
and me thinking to myself,
"I think this is gonna be a friend of mine."
The first time I ever met his parents,
Bill did not want to introduce me.
He just wanted me to go straight up the stairs.
He would look at me and just go, "Look,
don't talk to them. Just follow me upstairs. "
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