Bill Hicks: Hero of American Comedy

'Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.'

'Because you know if you play New Kids on the Block albums backwards they sound better. "Oh come on, Bill, they're the New Kids, don't pick on them, they're so good and they're so clean cut and they're such a good image for the children." Fuck that! When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? I want my children to listen to people who fucking ROCKED! I don't care if they died in puddles of their own vomit! I want someone who plays from his fucking HEART!'

'People say "Iraq had the fourth largest army in the world". Yeah, maybe, but you know what, after the first 3 largest armies, there's a REAL big fucking drop-off. The Hare Krishnas are the 5th largest army in the world, and they've already got all our airports.'

'I don't do drugs anymore... than say, the average touring funk band.'

'Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.'

'Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.'

'So there, we have figured out, go back to bed America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up! Go back to bed America, here's American Gladiators. Here's 56 channels of it. Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go America - you are free, to do as we tell you. You are free, to do as we tell you.'

'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! I'm not scary. I'm basically just a joke-blower. That's basically all I am, a joke-blower on the back of some Mexican gardener, blowing jokes all over the driveway, a fairly harmless guy, believer in love and truth, anti-war, believer in the values under which this country was originally founded: Freedom of fucking expression.

'I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your fuckin' mouth.'

'It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.'

'A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back he ever wants to see a fucking cross? It's like going up to Jackie Onassis wearing a rifle pendant.'

Dangerous (1990)

Relentless (1992)

Arizona Bay (1997)

Rant in E-Minor (1997)

Philosophy: The Best of Bill Hicks (2001)

Love, Laughter and Truth (2002)

Flying Saucer Tour Vol. 1 (2002)

Shock and Awe (2003)

Salvation (2005)

Sane Man (VHS 1989) (DVD 2005)

One Night Stand (VHS 1991) (DVD 2002)

Ninja Bachelor Party (VHS 1991)

Relentless (VHS 1992) (DVD 2006)

Revelations (VHS 1993)

Totally Bill Hicks (VHS 1994)(DVD 2002)

Bill Hicks Live: Satirist, Social Critic, Stand Up Comedian (DVD 2004)