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A few weeks ago, Russell Crowe announced that he will be directing a biopic about the late comedian Bill Hicks. As a result, a few days ago Hicks was attacked on VICE, you can read it here. Here is a rebuttal, from one of his “overzealous and hopelessly earnest fans”.

So it goes: the mere suggestion of an on-screen dramatisation of William Melvin Hicks’ life dares show its face and out come the detractors. “Bill Hicks, mate, seriously?” they jeer. “You call that comedy? What, have you never seen a vagina or something? Loser.”

BILL HICKS WAS A GOOD COMEDIAN AND FUNNY

In the late 80s, he was strutting the boards across the New York circuit like a cool and collected alley cat in comparison to the bellowing rants of contemporaries such as Sam Kinison. His observations about “Ronald: six letters… Wilson: six letters… Reagan: six letters…” were delivered to a savvy cosmopolitan audience who knew that associating the then president with Satan in such a tenuous and childish way could only be self-parody. That is the joke: that he was so exasperated with his government he felt his only resort was to make absurd comparisons with the ultimate symbol of evil.

BILL HICKS DIDN’T MIND BEING HATED BILL HICKS WAS PASSIONATE BILL HICKS WAS AGREEABLE why didn’t like socialism

BILL HICKS SNUCK OUT AS A TEENAGER TO PERFORM COMEDY

BILL HICKS WAS CHARISMATIC

Admittedly, Bill was aware of his own swagger and flaunted and even boasted about it. But he was performing stand up comedy. For him to not exaggerate his own sure-footed nature and make it one of the key ingredients in his on-stage persona would have been, if anything, a little pompous and self-regarding, don’t you think?

(I know that’s the kind of circular argument that will really infuriate all you pro-logic anti-Hicksians out there. Don’t worry, I can feel you hating me. But I don’t care, ’cause over here at Team Hicks we’re having a great time.)

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