PODCAST: Remembering Bill Hicks

Before our next radio show tomorrow, we've got one more podcast of The C vs. A Radio Hour on G-Town Radio.

This episode aired on February 26th, which was to the day the death of legendary stand-up comic BILL HICKS fifteen years ago. And to commerate the occasion, host Dave Walk played clips of Hicks' stand-up and talked to Los Angeles comedian from Chicago JIMMY DORE who saw Hicks some 60 times as he was starting his comedy career. Dore's new Comedy Central one-hour special Citizen Jimmy is out now on DVD and CD. He's also the co-host of the podcast Comedy and Everything Else.

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TONIGHT: The C vs. A Radio Hour!

Our bi-weekly comedy talk show returns tonight from 7-8PM EST with our friends at Gtownradio.com (The Sound From Germantown).

Your host Dave Walk will be talking to Philadelphia comedians, playing not-funny songs and other great stuff, so make sure to set your internet dial to Gtownradio.com. Who will be on the show this week?

Today marks to the day the 15-year anniversary of the death of stand-up comic Bill Hicks from pancreatic cancer at the age of 32. We'll be playing some clips of Hicks' material and talk to Los Angeles comic Jimmy Dore about the man.

And during the second half of the show, Philadelphia writer and comic Gregg Gethard will tell his story of scandal, absurdity, triumph and love on the early 90s PBS game show Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?. All this plus not-funny music!

Remember, that's 7-8PM TONIGHT EST, streaming at Gtownradio.com. And, you can instant message us in the studio on AIM, Yahoo!, Gchat or MSN at CVSARADIO or through Twitter (@comicvsaudience.

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Classic Bits: "You Can't Get Bitter" by Bill Hicks

Bill Hicks is one of my favorite comedians ever. Not only was he incredibly honest, brave and unique, but he could write a great joke. That's not a backhanded compliment. Rather, it's easy to spout unconventional ideas, but it's difficult to always make it funny. Bill could do that no matter if he was talking about far-out politics, conspiracies or amazing drug trips. But he also had jokes about the beach and how moths were always attracted to light.

This bit is from the 2002 compilation Love, Laughter and Truth.



Love, Laughter and Truth is a collection from Hicks' personal tapes that weren't intended for public consumption. In most of them, like this one, he isn't killing and sometimes the crowd is yelling out at him. At the beginning of this bit he starts slow and seems to dig himself a hole. But as he sets the scene and it becomes more descriptive and grotesque, the laughs and moans come rolling in. These aren't just standard punchlines but incredibly dense turnings of phrase until the applause at the end.
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