Talk:Bill Hicks

Contents

1 Discography 2 How much do you smoke a day? 3 Removal of content 4 1980's 5 Counts Of The Netherworld 6 Image

Discography

Should we include a listed discography at the end, like a summary of his recorded work? -- Sam Francis

How much do you smoke a day?

I'm pretty sure the "How much do you smoke a day?" quote goes:

"How much do you smoke a day, dude? Pack and a half? You little puss...Why don't you just put the fuckin' skirt on, and swish around for us? 'Pack and a half, I smoke a pack and a half..' I go through two lighters a day, dude".

At least, that's how I remember it appearing on the Dangerous album. It could be that the quote in the article is a variation from a different source.

That's exactly what it is. Sometimes he would improvise around his scripted jokes. --Viriditas | Talk 11:39, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Removal of content

Removed known for controversial political topics, such as the Gulf War and the LA riots, among other things. This is comedy, not a policial position. It should also be noted that these topics weren't controversial, and Bill Hicks wasn't known for them. Hicks was primarily known for controversial topics involving religion, sex, drugs, and music. So, not only was the comment irrelevant, it was wrong. You will not find any Bill Hicks fan or critic who will tell you that he was known for topics about the Gulf War and the LA riots. Yes, he commented on those topics, as did every other comedian of that era. His views on drugs and religion were and still are extremely controversial. --Viriditas | Talk 06:22, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I'm sorry, and how do you know how Bill Hicks is primarily known? I'm a fan, and I see his comedy as a medium, not the end result, for political and social topics--Gulf War and LA Riots included. So there goes your theory. Since you cite no source for such knowledge, I propose that your perspective is biased and uninformed. The content you removed should be reconsidered. In the future please make educated, not speculative, edits. 24.250.231.21

Bill hicks was not known for ...controversial political topics, such as the Gulf War and the LA riots. His comedy had many facets, including social, psychological, legal, ethical, etc. The content was removed because it is inaccurate and misleading. My original statement still stands. --Viriditas | Talk 07:53, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

1980's

"Hicks started drinking heavily and using drugs, leading to a more disjointed and angry, at times misanthropic, ranting style on stage."

Are you sure his angry and disjointed style was caused by drugs and alcohol? Could very well be the anger that caused the drugs, not the other way around. I think the above sentence is speculation, not fact.

Counts Of The Netherworld

I didn't want to change it, as I haven't seen it, and someone who has may be able to clear it up, but should Counts Of The Netherworld be described as a sitcom? From my understanding, it would have been a show that was broadly comedic, but much more of a discussion and stand-up show than anything resembling a sitcom, even in the broadest use of the term. NickBarlow 07:28, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You can make up your own mind as to what Counts of the Netherworld would have turned out like - there are a few excerpts available on the Sacred Cow website (http://www.sacredcow.com/allnew/index_content.php?n=multimedia_video_bill). Difficult to describe what I saw, butI think it would have been more like a late night discussion show with lots of dark satirical tones to it. -Zaphod Beeblebrox 08:35, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Image

The old picture doesn't seem to be working, so I moved the album cover from the Arizona Bay article. If anyone has a better image, feel free to use it.

Oh, it works alright. Maybe it just was temporarily unavailable. I reversed your change, if that is allright with you. --Johnnyw 00:36, 2005 May 28 (UTC)

Heh, my computer doesn't recognize it. Ah well, glad it works for the rest of you. --Stilgar135 00:49 28 May 2005

It's not working for me. Bill_Hicks_1.jpg :s. I don't what's going on. --Cammoore 01:13, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Checked it again, still no trouble... Do you get an error message, a broken link signal or s.th. like that? --Johnnyw 01:27, 2005 May 28 (UTC)

I can see the box and the text, but no image. Stilgar135 16:26, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Can you see Image:Bill Hicks 1.jpg? How about The full-size image (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Bill_Hicks_1.jpg)? Or this direct link to the thumbnail (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/180px-Bill_Hicks_1.jpg)? I suppose there might be a caching problem with the thumbnail on the page, but I can see it fine. --rbrwr^± 16:48, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

All your links work fine. User:Stilgar135

I'm surprised that you can see the direct link to the thumbnail, but it doesn't appear on the article page. I don't know what would be causing that. You could try following the instructions in Wikipedia:Bypass your cache, but beyond that, I'm stumped. --rbrwr^± 19:57, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Here's another one. Maybe you have blocked all images that are not from the same server as the website. For example, in Firefox there is an option that reads "[x] Load Images [x]...from the originating site only." If you have the second checkbox checked, than that could be your problem, since some wiki images (i believe) are uploaded to the wikipedia commons, some aren't etc. pp... at least it could be worth a try. --Johnnyw 18:54, 2005 May 30 (UTC)