This evening sees the conclusion of Jay Leno's seventeen year stint as host of "The Tonight Show." Here's a tribute from early on in the funnyman's role at the helm by the late Bill Hicks. Great run, Jay!
Friday, May 29, 2009
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Hicks was the last time Leno attempted anything bold on his little show of blah.
Wait, Hicks was saying Leno's road to suckdom *started* with the Doritos commercial and that Leno *used* to be funny? The peacock-gore and Satan-assfucking details notwithstanding, this clip is a little too kind.
Hicks was a comic genius. Just ask Dennis Leary - he stole all of Hicks' material.
Having left the US in 89, there are very things I missed and regret but this man is one of them. I heard of him, read about him, but in pre-internet life didn't see much of him. If he had lived just a few years longer, I think he would have been a major star.
That said, fuck it. He was brilliant, talented, affected and taught a LOT of people...and is missed...and for a young life, I think that's OK.
thank you for that. if i were in possession of some medium with which to share this audio with friends, lovers, and fellow claymates, i would certainly have done so. but the awl to the rescawl! thank you mille!
also i think the jacking off/pro-life bit is a better passage in 'rant,' but, alas, it lacks a timely peg.
Another attorney in my firm was named Bill Hicks and I spent four solid years hoping he'd say something funny, but nah. Nothing. Four years. Just until he got fired for shitting on a paralegal's desk and leaving a three-inch stack of porn printed out on the hallway printer.