Love All the People

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There aint no one out there whos a fuckin threat to us okay? They dont exist. Im talking now only of countries we dont arm first. Bill Hicks was arguably the most influential stand-up comedian of the last 30 years. He was an inspiration for performers such as Michael Moore Mark Thomas and Robert Newman and many others. For the tenth anniversary of his death this first collected work includes all Hickss major stand-up routines extracts from his diaries and notebooks letters and final writings much of it never before published. Hicks could have had his own show on prime time could have got rich fat and frightened. He decided not to use his gifts to confirm the prejudices of his audience. He attacked the lies that justified and prettified the carnage of the First Gulf War. He attacked the easy surrender of art to commerce the demeaning cynicism of the marketing culture and the preposterous power of the mainstream media to confuse and corrupt. He reminded us that love is the real laugh. In this celebratory collection we can trace Hickss evolution from brilliant stand-up to spectacular and dangerous innovator. Bill Hicks... On Comedy: Its always funny until someone gets hurts. Then its just hilarious. On Children: Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I dont know one child with a full-time job and children On Just About Everything at Once: Here is my final point. About drugs about alcohol about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do read buy see say think who I fuck what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? On Americas Foreign Policy: Im so sick of arming the world then sending troops over to destroy the fucking arms you know what I mean? We keep arming these little countries then we go and blow the shit out of them. Were like the bullies of the world yknow. Were like Jack Palance in the movie Shane throwing the pistol at the sheepherders feet. Pick it up. I dont wanna pick it up Mister youll shoot me. Pick up the gun. Mister I dont want no trouble. I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids some gingham for my wife. I dont even know what gingham is but she goes through about ten rolls a week of that stuff. I aint looking for no trouble Mister. Pick up the gun. (He picks it up. Three shots ring out.) You all saw him - he had a gun. On the Evils of Pornography: Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts thats their definition essentially. No artistic merit causes sexual thoughts .& Sounds like every commercial on television doesnt it? To read more buy the book (see top of page).