Love All the People: The Essential Bill Hicks

Hicks, Bill

| 2005

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Love All the People, a collection of controversial comedian Bill Hicks' stand-up routines, notebooks, journals, and letters, traces his evolution from brilliant conventional stand-up to something far more interesting and dangerous: a comic speaking without fear. The result is a radical philosopher masquerading as a comedian, plumbing the American psyche with challenging (and side-splitting) conclusions. Hicks, who died of cancer in 1993, didn't go the easy way with his humor. He attacked the lies that justified the carnage of the Gulf War, the preposterous power of the mainstream media to confuse and corrupt, and the demeaning cynicism of the marketing culture. In Love All the People, that renegade comic artistry that made Bill Hicks an iconoclastic social commentator is recorded, celebrated, and revealed as true genius in this expanded edition that includes additional routines and...

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David Pastuhoff

2011-01-08

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En av mina absoluta favoriterkomiker. Blev dessvärre rejält besviken över alla upprepningar denna bok innehåller. En mörkare bild av Hicks (om nu möjligt) presenteras också i boken, vilket är intressant, men påverkade min bild av honom som konstnär negativt.