Love All The People

by Hicks, Bill

• ISBN13: 9781932360653
• ISBN10: 1932360654
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Soft Skull Pr

Summary

A collection of humor from the scathing comic who was banned from the Letterman show and died prematurely of pancreatic cancer at age thirty-two culls his diaries, stand-up routines, notebooks, letters, and final writings for edgy material on everything from the cult of celebrity to the Gulf War. Original.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Climbing up to center stage	p. 3
Quotes and lyrics	p. 5
Interview	p. 9
Recorded live at the Village Gate, NYC, and Caroline's Seaport, NYC	p. 11
Recorded live at the Vic Theatre, Chicaco	p. 29
Recorded live at Funny Bone, Pittsburgh, PA	p. 37
Recorded at Laff Stop, Austin, TX	p. 63
Interview with funny man Bill Hicks	p. 81
Hicksville UFO	p. 85
Mr. Malcontent	p. 89
The questionnaire	p. 95
Intro to Scotland	p. 99
The counts of the netherworld - treatment	p. 101
The counts of the netherworld - manifesto	p. 107
Capitol Hill, October 31, 1992	p. 111
Recorded live at the Dominion Theatre, London	p. 115
Recorded live at the Oxford playhouse, UK	p. 137
Thoughts on love and smoking	p. 159
Touch me, I'm Hicks!	p. 165
Recorded live at Laff Stop, Austin, TX	p. 169
Bill Hicks : comedy for the head	p. 185
Recorded live at Laff Stop, Austin, TX, and Cobbs, San Francisco, CA	p. 189
Wake up America	p. 213
The wicked Christians (thoughts on the one true religion)	p. 215
My philosophy	p. 225
Free press or the observer, show idea	p. 227
Unresolvable problems - resolved!	p. 231
Introducing ... Bill Hicks, scallywag No. 14	p. 235
Bill Hicks on smoking	p. 239
Bill Hicks on the fall of communism	p. 241
Two myths explored, debunked, and other rantings	p. 243
Letter to John Lahr	p. 249
Letter to Dave	p. 273
Letter to Jay	p. 275
The vision	p. 277
Bill Hicks, interview from Campus activities today	p. 281
New happiness	p. 297
Recorded live in Denver, San Ramon, West Palm Beach and San Francisco	p. 299
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