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The Dominion Theatre, London, England, 1993. The stage is dark; suddenly twanging guitar and drumbeats break the silence. A door at the back of the stage opens to reveal a figure silhouetted against a flamed background. He is dressed head to toe in black with a cowboy hat and long coat. He strides with confidence onto the stage to rousing applause from the audience. With a swish he takes off his hat and coat and hangs them on the microphone stand. This is Bill Hicks: Revelations!

A Comedy Rock Star

Born in Georgia in 1961 to a devout Southern Baptist family, William Melvin Hicks never seemed destined to change stand-up comedy, but that is exactly what happened. Inspired by Woody Allen, Richard Pryor and George Carlin the young Hicks began performing to his classmates at Bible Camp. In a few short years he was packing in the crowds at Houston’s Comedy Workshop, and was just 17.

In his early twenties, Hicks became addicted to almost every substance upon which you can develop a dependency. As he descended into alcohol and cocaine addiction his comedy suffered and his shows became annoying diatribes where he got drunk on stage and verbally abused the crowds. Taking control, Bill got clean and stayed sober for the rest of his life. He also came back as a force to be reckoned with and would shake the comedy scene to its foundations in the late 1980s and early '90s.

His breakthrough into the mainstream came in 1991 when he performed at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. His first show was a rousing success and he was plucked by festival coordinators to perform a 1-hour special, Relentless, during which Bill took on the very thorny issue of The Gulf War. “There never really was a war” he stated “How can you say that Bill? Well a war is when two armies are fighting” was his pointed comment on the number of victims of American ‘friendly fire’.

He displayed the style and material that would make him famous in Canada and Europe over the next few years—the same two things that kept him an unknown in his native country for much of his life. In the latter years of Bush Sr. Hicks dared to say what a lot of people where thinking.

After Bush lost to Clinton, Bill claimed “It’s not that I disagree with Bush’s foreign policy or his economic policy, it’s I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth.” One can only speculate what Bill’s thoughts on “Dubya” might have been. His Gulf war material was eerily relevant to George W.’s foreign policy.

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