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Bill Hicks
[disinfo ed.'s note: this original essay was first published by disinformation on February 20, 2002. Some links may have expired.]
“Thank you. How you doing folks? Me too. You gotta bear with me, I’m very tired, very tired of traveling, and very tired of doing comedy, and very tired of staring out at your vacant faces looking back at me, wanting me to fill your empty lives with humor you couldn’t possibly think of yourselves. Good evening.”
Bill Hicks: the Nietzsche of comedy, the most legitimate social critic of the 1990s: a renegade messiah who tried to make people laugh, but usually ended up pissing them off, or drawing blank stares.
Born in 1961, Hicks died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 32, just as his career was peaking. He left in his wake a legacy of biting criticisms against American society: no inadequacy or hypocrisy was immune to his scathing satires, but don’t take my word for it.… Read the rest
Seth Meyers’ Speech At 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers gave a speech at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, targeting GOP candidates, Donald Trump, VP Joe Biden and the President. While he received quite a few laughs, some guests (i.e. Trump) were less than amused:
