Bill Hicks

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People Who Hate People 00:33 Tools
Smoking 03:59 Tools
Easter 01:19 Tools
Pro Life 04:14 Tools
Fevered Egos 04:04 Tools
Gays In The Military 02:23 Tools
Non-Smokers 02:37 Tools
Gideons 01:04 Tools
Orange Drink 01:08 Tools
Politics In America 00:38 Tools
Confession Time (Cops) 04:25 Tools
Hooligans 04:19 Tools
Save Willie 01:05 Tools
I'm Talking to the Women Here 01:12 Tools
The Elite 01:03 Tools
A New Flag (Patriotism) 01:13 Tools
The Pope 01:02 Tools
I.R.S. Bust 01:09 Tools
Rush Limbaugh 02:21 Tools
Gifts of Forgiveness 05:09 Tools
Your Children Aren't Special 03:16 Tools
Quiet Loner 00:57 Tools
Dinosaurs in the Bible 05:57 Tools
Great Times On Drugs 10:47 Tools
One of the Boys (Clinton) 01:03 Tools
Deficit (Jesse Helms) 02:47 Tools
Goodbye You Lizard Scum 03:51 Tools
Artistic Roll Call 04:32 Tools
Time To Evolve 03:15 Tools
Back to the Garden 01:19 Tools
You're Wrong Night 05:35 Tools
The News 01:19 Tools
Odd Beliefs 00:49 Tools
Flying Saucer Tour 03:18 Tools
Step on the Gas (L.A. Riots) 04:49 Tools
Waco (Koresh) 05:34 Tools
Drugs Have Done Good Things 01:19 Tools
Love List (No Future) 02:55 Tools
Greetings 01:20 Tools
Lift Me Lord 00:52 Tools
Sex On Trial 03:06 Tools
Please Do Not Disturb 06:56 Tools
The War 09:15 Tools
Marketing & Advertising 04:39 Tools
Officer Nigger Hater 05:25 Tools
Wizards Have Landed 01:43 Tools
What Is Pornography? 03:33 Tools
Pussywhipped Satan 04:43 Tools
As Long as We're Talking Shelf Life (Kennedy) 04:59 Tools
Me & Saddam 03:13 Tools
Summer Trip 01:26 Tools
Beelzebozo 01:36 Tools
The Elephant Is Dead (Bush) 01:59 Tools
Bullies of the World 01:24 Tools
The Sanctity Of Life 02:49 Tools
I Love My Job 01:30 Tools
Living God 01:07 Tools
Modern Bummer 06:33 Tools
my favorite new kid 01:09 Tools
The War on Drugs 09:08 Tools
Rockers Against Drugs Suck 02:10 Tools
Speaking of Homosexuality 02:32 Tools
Shane's Song 02:02 Tools
Pot Smoking 01:11 Tools
Don't Talk for Me 01:42 Tools
Drunk Driving 06:53 Tools
A Killer Idea 03:01 Tools
She's Got a Broken Heart 01:08 Tools
Poe-Naw-Grah-Fee 01:46 Tools
New York Apartment 01:53 Tools
Summertime 02:51 Tools
Australia 02:18 Tools
The F Word 00:43 Tools
Burning Issues 03:58 Tools
My Parents 05:26 Tools
Drugs Are Bad 03:14 Tools
The Vision 00:57 Tools
Elvis 02:07 Tools
My One Man Show 01:32 Tools
We Live in a World... 10:46 Tools
Smoking in Heaven 03:57 Tools
50 Year Smoker 01:38 Tools
Dance Club 01:44 Tools
Worst Audience Ever 01:05 Tools
Girl of Your Dreams 02:17 Tools
Yul Brynner 01:22 Tools
Satiating the American Comedy Audience 00:44 Tools
A Question for the Ladies 04:34 Tools
L.A. Falls 03:56 Tools
Are You Guys Drug Dealers? 01:50 Tools
Working 01:15 Tools
You Can't Get Bitter 02:53 Tools
Menu? 01:29 Tools
Children on Airplanes 03:54 Tools
Trying to Quit 04:56 Tools
Praying for Nuclear Holocaust 01:10 Tools
Wax Dart 00:30 Tools
Vs. the Audience 1 00:51 Tools
More War 02:14 Tools
What's Wrong? 00:00 Tools
Young Lady 01:26 Tools
Vs. the Audience 3 01:16 Tools
School Days 03:18 Tools
Vs. the Audience 2 04:40 Tools
Mandatory Marijuana 04:49 Tools
Ding Dong 10:19 Tools
Chicks Dig Jerks 04:45 Tools
Penthouse Letters 02:48 Tools
Clam Lappers & Sonic the Hedgehog 03:02 Tools
Talking Car 03:38 Tools
Intro 00:55 Tools
Goodnight 00:44 Tools
Mechanics of Pornography 03:09 Tools
Cause of Sexual Thought 04:08 Tools
Basic Instinct 05:56 Tools
Puppet People 13:10 Tools
You Suck 02:09 Tools
Polls 03:58 Tools
Intro / Smokers Vs Drinkers 01:33 Tools
Jimmy White 01:02 Tools
The Courage of My Own Beliefs 02:05 Tools
Dick Jokes 07:09 Tools
English Porno 02:05 Tools
Hello Oxford 10:30 Tools
Madonna's Sex Book 01:03 Tools
Sniper's Nest 02:30 Tools
More About Smoking 02:22 Tools
That's a Nice Fella Back There 02:04 Tools
Freebird 03:10 Tools
Peeing on the Dead 02:39 Tools
Vote for Labour 03:36 Tools
Christians for the Death Penalty 02:37 Tools
Religion / Drugs 23:45 Tools
Wrong Crowd? 01:20 Tools
Philosophy: The Best of Bill Hicks 59:54 Tools
Back to Bed America 04:07 Tools
American Horseshit 01:21 Tools
I Do Suck 03:22 Tools
Fries 02:54 Tools
Satan Starmaker 03:00 Tools
Fuck Artists Only 02:34 Tools
I Love Film 02:44 Tools
Film 03:03 Tools
This Is My Second Show 06:20 Tools
Back in My Room 01:52 Tools
I Need to Get Laid 02:57 Tools
You're Proving My Point 03:44 Tools
On the Bright Side 03:16 Tools
Children 04:23 Tools
Kids 04:59 Tools
Almost Broke My Back 03:33 Tools
Backed Up 12:17 Tools
Filthy Boy 03:42 Tools
Oklahoma 05:26 Tools
Is There a Message 02:42 Tools
Sleep & The Message 10:47 Tools
You Will Be the First to Leave 03:46 Tools
This Is Comedy Hell 02:03 Tools
Rant in E Minor 00:00 Tools
Human Fellowship 03:00 Tools
Clam Lappers and Sonic the Hedgehog 03:01 Tools
It's Just a Ride 05:53 Tools
The Comedy of Hate 03:23 Tools
Clamlappers & Sonic The Hedgehog 00:00 Tools
Uncle 05:53 Tools
Settle in for This One 02:58 Tools
Kennedy & The Warren Commission 03:12 Tools
It's All a Dream 06:11 Tools
Willy's Balance 06:04 Tools
What Is Pornography 00:00 Tools
A Man of Taste and Decency 04:58 Tools
The Irony of Pure Hatred 06:06 Tools
Intro/Smokers vs Drinkers 01:33 Tools
Cancer! Cancer! 04:44 Tools
A Mystery in my Trousers 03:36 Tools
IRS Bust 01:09 Tools
You're In The RIght Place 03:42 Tools
Beer Vs Pot 02:50 Tools
Killer Idea 02:59 Tools
Stop Making Jokes About Me 02:55 Tools
Dangerous 00:00 Tools
arizona bay 00:00 Tools
I'm Talking to Myself 05:52 Tools
The God of Comedy 05:16 Tools
He had a gun 01:24 Tools
News / Movies / Religion 13:53 Tools
That is Cleverness 04:25 Tools
We Live In A Dangerous World 04:11 Tools
Step on the Gas 04:49 Tools
Gee There Was a Lot of Blood 03:43 Tools
Anti-Christ 03:43 Tools
Kennedy & the Warren Commision 03:09 Tools
Purple Vein Dick Joke 00:29 Tools
Relentless - Entire Album 59:45 Tools
People Suck 00:21 Tools
Go back to bed America 04:07 Tools
Renting Pornos & Girlfriends 01:13 Tools
Spectravision & Housekeeping 02:07 Tools
Name & Address Not Withheld 01:16 Tools
Little Satan Boy 05:22 Tools
What Could Be Worse 02:01 Tools
God made a mistake 04:56 Tools
Humans Are So Neat 06:11 Tools
You Gotta Play Miniature Golf 04:32 Tools
Heather's Two Mommies 00:00 Tools
Charlie Hodge 11:59 Tools
Relentless 00:00 Tools
Planting Seeds 02:38 Tools
Bill Doesn't Like Snooker 05:05 Tools
Terminally ill stunt people 03:09 Tools
You Guys Are Weird 03:05 Tools
sex phone lines 05:57 Tools
Send In Vanilla Ice 07:13 Tools
We Live In A World 10:47 Tools
Handguns - UK vs. USA 01:52 Tools
Comedy Gold 03:08 Tools
I'm Jack the Ripper 00:00 Tools
That's Artillery 03:09 Tools
Stop With The Goat Boy Thing 04:34 Tools
Drugs Have Done Good Things Part 2 00:56 Tools
We Don't Drink Ice 03:15 Tools
Jesus the Bunny 00:00 Tools
Pro-Life Non-Smoker 00:56 Tools
The Anti 03:43 Tools
Cats or Dogs 03:21 Tools
Time for a Confession 00:00 Tools
Hitler Had The Right Idea 03:45 Tools
Intro/Smokers vs. Drinkers 01:33 Tools
The New Living Bible 04:02 Tools
news, movies, religion 13:56 Tools
Smoking Tastes Great 02:47 Tools
Not A Physics Major 05:15 Tools
The Hallmark Of Art 03:02 Tools
It Seemed So Plausable 00:00 Tools
Dick Joke Island 00:00 Tools
She's A Woman 00:00 Tools
Ya Gotta Peek 00:00 Tools
Glad You Brought a Book 01:45 Tools
Audience Member/Old Folks Home Manager 01:15 Tools
News/Movies/Religion 13:57 Tools
Found My Brand 04:56 Tools
Time to Evolve Ideas 00:00 Tools
Wacky Iranians 02:06 Tools
Concert in Chicago 1989 50:44 Tools
Come Back Shane 02:47 Tools
the Hate Camel 01:58 Tools
your denial is beneath you 05:45 Tools
Positive Drug Story 04:42 Tools
It's Not A Talk Show 04:43 Tools
Chidren On Airplanes 03:52 Tools
You'll Never Get Us, Copper 04:51 Tools
I Love America 03:11 Tools
We Hated Them 03:30 Tools
Waco Debacle 00:00 Tools
Ladies and Gentlemen .... Bill Hicks 03:48 Tools
Really Special Cows 08:05 Tools
Red Haired Man 00:00 Tools
we lost a moron 03:50 Tools
I'm Bilbo Hicks 03:20 Tools
There's A Ledge Beyond The Edge 01:51 Tools
Einstein Proved That 04:29 Tools
A New Flag 00:00 Tools
A Virus with Shoes 02:50 Tools
We're All Jack The Ripper 02:07 Tools
Heather's Two Mommys 02:30 Tools
God's Got A Way With Words 05:44 Tools
Row Row Row Your Boat 00:00 Tools
There's A Monster In Every Loch 03:59 Tools
Hell is Non-Smoking 02:18 Tools
Jesus, What Balls! 03:13 Tools
A Comedy Dead End 05:26 Tools
crude question 07:28 Tools
Kennedy And The Warren Commission 03:10 Tools
Sorry, wrong meeting 00:00 Tools
The Royal College Of Something 04:44 Tools
Hey Mama 03:23 Tools
Assassination Pun 03:41 Tools
Sex Kittens 04:18 Tools
Mick and Keef 01:30 Tools
Nicotine Band Aid 00:00 Tools
And hopelessness reigns 04:18 Tools
Speaking Of Satan 01:50 Tools
That's The Story Of Jesus 04:22 Tools
Am I In Your Way? 05:14 Tools
Back To The Clinic 02:25 Tools
Your 12 Year Old Sketch 04:10 Tools
Officer N****r Hater 05:27 Tools
Homosexuality 00:00 Tools
Dad's Not Getting Off On These 04:01 Tools
The Moon is Smiling 07:34 Tools
The Road Can Be Hard 03:19 Tools
I Did Think of That, I Was Two at the Time 02:37 Tools
And Vernon Spoke 04:46 Tools
Christianity 00:27 Tools
Waco 00:00 Tools
Deficit 00:00 Tools
Turn Your Mind Over To Your Heart 06:42 Tools
He Din'nt Mean Ta Hit Me Offuhsur 02:15 Tools
Reginald Denny 03:54 Tools
Dance Clubs 12:14 Tools
Snooker Highlights 06:45 Tools
Clam Lappers & Sonic The Hedgehog™ 00:00 Tools
Deep Thoughts 01:30 Tools
That's How Ya Do It Towel Head 01:30 Tools
Christ's Bogus Adventure 06:44 Tools
Seven Seals 00:28 Tools
Evolution Of Ideas 14:42 Tools
Jazz Instrumental 02:16 Tools
Confirmed Demon 05:34 Tools
Pro-Lifers and Non-Smokers 05:34 Tools
Love List 00:00 Tools
Ha-Ha Los Angeles 00:39 Tools
We Know She's Not A Good Actress 03:28 Tools
Pot Should Be Mandatory 00:49 Tools
No Music In My Soul 06:29 Tools
Waiting To Meet You 04:54 Tools
Hee Haw The Book 07:34 Tools
Gideon's 00:00 Tools
The War (edit) 05:08 Tools
Punks 01:15 Tools
Started Smoking Again 00:00 Tools
Eternal Life Fantasy 03:41 Tools
Well Laid Ted Turner 07:20 Tools
Idle Thoughts 04:03 Tools
Elite Republican Guards 02:45 Tools
(Ding Dong) Bush Is Dead 05:38 Tools
Sharon Stone's Pussy 05:59 Tools
Hendrix Was an Alien 00:53 Tools
Elephant is Dead 01:59 Tools
Car Bomb Derby 00:25 Tools
I Never Really Cried For You 02:29 Tools
Great Time On Drugs 03:20 Tools
200 Million Sperm 00:00 Tools
Against The Law 03:43 Tools
It Seemed So Plausible 05:29 Tools
Time For A Question 07:30 Tools
I Just Can't Stop 05:50 Tools
Dirt For Sale 04:35 Tools
Keith Richards And The Ledge Beyond The Edge 04:35 Tools
The Artistic World 06:51 Tools
Pee Wee 06:06 Tools
Introduction 01:48 Tools
All In How You Look At It 05:20 Tools
LA City Of Hell 03:07 Tools
Double Standards 05:22 Tools
Outro Instrumental 01:06 Tools
Any Questions 06:58 Tools
Opening Title 01:30 Tools
I've Smoked a Lot 05:36 Tools
Fascists 1 Humans Nothing 00:00 Tools
Evolution! Evolution! 00:53 Tools
The Door Is A Jar 04:40 Tools
Jackie's Ass 00:00 Tools
The Adventure 31:20 Tools
Deficit-Tighten the Belt 31:20 Tools
New York Would Be Oz 08:09 Tools
Hooligans Are Loose 04:01 Tools
Clam Lappers & Sonic The Hedge 00:00 Tools
Horror Films 05:51 Tools
Heads And Chips! 05:56 Tools
Abortion 00:27 Tools
fascists 1, humans nothing 05:38 Tools
Step On The Gas [L.A. Riots] 04:48 Tools
Give The Fiddler A Dram 01:55 Tools
Blue Dot Money 02:31 Tools
Australia (Album Version) 02:17 Tools
Sane Man 09:56 Tools
JFK (Was a Long Time Ago) 00:00 Tools
Clever Boy 08:12 Tools
I Quit Smoking 00:00 Tools
Did I Miss A Meeting 00:00 Tools
That's America 06:11 Tools
When Jesus Comes Back 02:01 Tools
Smoking In LA (No Tolerance) 01:33 Tools
Shrooms 00:00 Tools
Revelations 07:12 Tools
Fetus On TV 01:33 Tools
Old Smoker In Central Park 01:33 Tools
Go Back To The Goatboy Shit 05:36 Tools
Bring Granny To The Show 00:00 Tools
Welcome (Dylan) 00:41 Tools
No Smoking On Airplanes (But They Allow Children) 00:41 Tools
Suck Satan's Pecker 03:52 Tools
Audience Member / Old Folks Home Manager 01:15 Tools
More Snickers! More Coke! 08:24 Tools
Going for the Record (Nothing but Air) 08:24 Tools
The Comix Annex 06:40 Tools
The Show's Gonna Start Any Moment 04:29 Tools
Riff on Comedy, Dick Jokes, And Plastic Plants 01:33 Tools
I Love My Job (live) 01:33 Tools
I'll Tell Ya What I Believe 06:40 Tools
Goatboy 00:00 Tools
I Need Help 02:33 Tools
I'll Review The Tape Later 05:23 Tools
Ranch Tripping 09:29 Tools
Smokers Passing Out 01:01 Tools
Ice Cold Macaroni 01:26 Tools
Intro / Smokers vs. Drinkers 01:33 Tools
Cnn (Live) 03:07 Tools
Driving Whilst Smoking 00:37 Tools
Rebirthing 00:00 Tools
Where's My Commercial 09:37 Tools
Good Times On Drugs 05:50 Tools
Jesus Is Pissed 00:00 Tools
Sorry Wrong Meeting 00:00 Tools
Satanic Messages 00:55 Tools
Hypocritical Bastards 01:14 Tools
Tommy 06:28 Tools
I Blame the Women 06:28 Tools
Car Bombs And Cowards 10:19 Tools
200 Million Sperm (featuring Rage Against The Machine) 03:34 Tools
Time To Evolve (More Dick Jokes Are Coming) 05:59 Tools
Childbirth Is Not a Miracle 00:00 Tools
Goatboy Revisited 03:07 Tools
Loser Antenna 00:39 Tools
Sneaking Out 08:18 Tools
Hbo Tv Beckons 01:15 Tools
Microphone Is Getting Lower 01:22 Tools
The Nightmare Begins 01:37 Tools
War 03:45 Tools
Religion 03:38 Tools
The War (Live) 03:08 Tools
Advertising or Marketing 05:47 Tools
News 01:00 Tools
Thunk! 06:07 Tools
Everything They Tell You About Pot Is a Lie (Play the Sitar) 06:07 Tools
Sobriety Test Pt 1 00:00 Tools
I Am Elvis 01:00 Tools
Put 'Em in the Movies 01:02 Tools
A Better World (Are You Cool With That?) 00:52 Tools
Sacrifices 05:43 Tools
You Ain't from Around Here (Are Ya Boy) [Live] 00:00 Tools
Carrot Top And Gallagher 00:00 Tools
Drugs Have Done Good Things, Pt. 2 00:56 Tools
Sobriety Test Pt 2 00:00 Tools
UFO Tour 05:25 Tools
Early Years 05:25 Tools
Interview 03:45 Tools
Guys Don't Want Children 02:07 Tools
Philosophical Discussion with a Christian 02:07 Tools
A Positive LSD Story 00:00 Tools
Childbirth Is Not Natural (Back To The Garden) 00:00 Tools
Drugs 12:14 Tools
Elmer Dinkley 07:00 Tools
Sobriety Test Pt 3 00:00 Tools
It's Women (Women) 02:54 Tools
My Town Burned Down 00:00 Tools
Closing Bit 00:27 Tools
Bradley Tanks Knocking Down Catholic Churches 02:07 Tools
Heehaw the Book (Live) 02:03 Tools
Punks (Where's The Bone?) 05:43 Tools
Goat Boy 04:37 Tools
Christians 01:14 Tools
Snorkels…And It's Not Even July 01:14 Tools
Your Children Are Not Special (Grey Gym Sock) 03:28 Tools
Smoking (Live) 03:27 Tools
L.A. Riots 00:27 Tools
Last Letterman Show 09:03 Tools
Drinking 08:08 Tools
Adventure in L.a. 00:00 Tools
The Future Enemy 05:41 Tools
Sense of Smell 04:46 Tools
Smokers Vs. Drinkers 00:00 Tools
Porn Adverts 03:55 Tools
I'm Bill Hicks and I'm Dead Now (Live) 03:07 Tools
04 - Smoking 02:01 Tools
Magic Baton Theory 03:08 Tools
Evolution! Evolution! (Live) 00:00 Tools
27 - Menu 01:28 Tools
It's All So Real 00:00 Tools
One Drunk Bitch 00:00 Tools
Welcome to Comedy 00:00 Tools
You Are Free to Do What We Tell You 06:16 Tools
Clamlappers & Sonic The Hedgeh 00:00 Tools
Jacking Off 00:00 Tools
Keith And Jim 02:22 Tools
Outro 00:53 Tools
You Don't Boil Pizza 00:00 Tools
Acid 00:53 Tools
Until That First Show In Chicago 01:29 Tools
I Could Be Satan 00:00 Tools
Is That Mister Bum? 00:00 Tools
I Had A Good Time Yesterday 03:27 Tools
Going Sober in N.y. 00:00 Tools
Children of the Goat 05:51 Tools
Ragnar 03:27 Tools
Wash Me 00:00 Tools
Facial Burn 00:00 Tools
You Are Free To Do What We Tell You To Do 06:15 Tools
What Is Pornography? (Live) 00:00 Tools
Out Dancin' To Their Lights 02:03 Tools
The Antichrist 00:00 Tools
Masturbation Record 00:00 Tools
God's Will 05:28 Tools
Hours of Dick Jokes 00:00 Tools
Pedestrial Right of Way Law 05:51 Tools
An Important Lesson 07:42 Tools
Success in the Uk 00:00 Tools
Nollpop 00:00 Tools
My Three Weeks 00:42 Tools
You Suck II 00:00 Tools
Get the Fuck Out 00:00 Tools
05 - Smoking 00:00 Tools
Odd Beliefs (Live) 03:57 Tools
1 - Intro 00:55 Tools
Shit, I could Do That 00:00 Tools
Your Goin' To Hell Boy! 00:00 Tools
Crotchless G-String 00:00 Tools
Mediocrity 00:00 Tools
Rock Against Drugs 00:00 Tools
Grab Hiz Hay Yid 00:00 Tools
Gooberosity 03:50 Tools
Play from Your Fucking Heart! (Live) 01:07 Tools
There's My Dick 00:00 Tools
Sex On Trial (Album Version) 03:06 Tools
People Are Such Retards 04:11 Tools
Goodnight (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
A Dead Guy Covered In Urine 03:09 Tools
I'm Gonna Leave 00:00 Tools
Drugs Have Done Good Things (Live) 00:00 Tools
Henry Lee Hicks 03:09 Tools
No Worries Mate 03:09 Tools
Freeze Dried and Mailed Home 02:27 Tools
Two Lighters A Day 03:56 Tools
01 - intro 01:19 Tools
1 - Intro + Smokers Vs Drinkers 03:09 Tools
Open 01:34 Tools
Pt 01 01:19 Tools
I Had To Use A Shoehorn Once 03:07 Tools
Raggarkungens Son 03:07 Tools
Comedy Hell 00:00 Tools
Raggarrock 03:07 Tools
Satan's Scaly Pecker 03:21 Tools
Let's Get To The Dick Jokes 00:00 Tools
Rant in E-minor 03:07 Tools
Time for a Question (Live) 03:01 Tools
Dick Clark 00:00 Tools
Diagnosis and Arizona Bay 03:45 Tools
1 - Religion, Drugs 23:51 Tools
Women 03:03 Tools
Sex 05:17 Tools
03 - ya gotta peek 02:53 Tools
Dinosaurs In The Bible (Album Version) 05:55 Tools
Work 02:10 Tools
Watching An Empty Stage 00:00 Tools
Here's Tom With Snooker Highlights 04:12 Tools
One Consciousness (Live) 01:40 Tools
Shows Gonna Start Any Minute 04:29 Tools
4 - Kennedy & The Warren Commission 00:00 Tools
God's Will (Live) 01:40 Tools
Rock 04:53 Tools
Do I Seem Jaded To You People? 03:10 Tools
marijuana 03:31 Tools
Bullies Of The World (Album Version) 01:22 Tools
bill hicks - arizona bay 03:10 Tools
Then Vernon Spoke - "Where's My Whittle Knife?" 03:10 Tools
Me And Saddam (Album Version) 03:10 Tools
01 - Smokers Vs. Drinkers 01:33 Tools
08 - The War 03:45 Tools
Alcohol Kills/Pot Is Better/A Job Has Been Created 02:07 Tools
2 - Film 00:00 Tools
Gallagher's World Tour 00:00 Tools
I'm Bill Hicks and I'm Dead Now 06:00 Tools
Adventues In LA 03:45 Tools
You Need Fresh Towels 03:00 Tools
How Tall Are You? 03:00 Tools
07 - Children on airplanes 03:53 Tools
Smoking (Album Version) 02:01 Tools
04 - people who hate people 05:47 Tools
Pt 04 00:00 Tools
Pt 03 00:00 Tools
Ding Dong Bush Is Dead 00:00 Tools
we know she's not a good actre 00:00 Tools
Hooligans (Album Version) 03:57 Tools
3 - Kids 00:00 Tools
Beezlebozo (Album Version) 01:07 Tools
I Don't Care How Many Push-Ups You Can Do 01:07 Tools
8 - News, Movies, Religion 00:00 Tools
01 - (Ding Dong) Bush Is Dead 00:00 Tools
Dirty Bob Hope 00:00 Tools
I Hate Me Too 00:00 Tools
Living God (Album Version) 01:05 Tools
The Pope (Album Version) 01:02 Tools
Hotels 04:43 Tools
Play From Your Fucking Heart 01:43 Tools
People Who Hate People (Album Version) 00:32 Tools
You're Goin' to Hell, Boy! 01:02 Tools
Alcohol Kills / Pot Is Better / A Job Has Been Created 06:52 Tools
Pt 05 00:00 Tools
Greetings (Album Version) 01:16 Tools
Return to Houston 01:02 Tools
Moon Is Smiling 07:33 Tools
The Sanctity Of Life (Album Version) 02:57 Tools
Summer Trip (Album Version) 02:19 Tools
We Live In A World... (Album Version) 02:57 Tools
7 - Children On Airplanes 02:57 Tools
09 - Save Willie 00:00 Tools
Great Times On Drugs (Album Version) 07:09 Tools
The Vision (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
15 - Time To Evolve 00:00 Tools
01 - Fascists 1 Humans Nothing 05:38 Tools
Marketing And Advertising (Album Version) 04:37 Tools
Intro + Smokers Vs Drinkers 01:33 Tools
Clam Lappers And Sonic The Hedgehog (Album Version) 03:01 Tools
The News (Album Version) 01:00 Tools
Odd Beliefs (Album Version) 00:48 Tools
Filling Up The Hump - 07 - Jesus The Bunny 01:54 Tools
Jackin Off 01:54 Tools
Pt 06 00:00 Tools
Flying Saucer Tour (Album Version) 01:54 Tools
I'm Alone In The World 01:54 Tools
02 - pee wee 00:00 Tools
Murder She Wrote 00:00 Tools
Part One, Chapter Two: People Who Hate People 00:32 Tools
Elephant Is Dead (bush) (Album Version) 01:57 Tools
The Beatles Were So High 00:00 Tools
Pt 11 01:57 Tools
Pt 09 00:00 Tools
11 - red haired man 04:17 Tools
17 - Dinosaurs In The Bible 00:00 Tools
Pt 07 00:00 Tools
10 - waco debacle 04:47 Tools
My Favorite New Kid (Album Version) 04:47 Tools
Pt 08 00:00 Tools
Don't Talk For Me (Album Version) 01:40 Tools
Pt 12 10:19 Tools
Pt 10 10:19 Tools
18 - Easter 00:00 Tools
Ding Dong (Album Version) 10:19 Tools
Back To The Garden (Album Version) 01:19 Tools
Beelzebozo (Album Version) 10:19 Tools
Naturalistic Healing (Mushroom Enema, Pt. 1) 10:19 Tools
Reagan, Bush and Quayle 00:00 Tools
Beer v Pot 02:50 Tools
01 - Religion, Drugs 23:52 Tools
Part One, Chapter One: Easter 23:52 Tools
13 - Row Row Row Your Boat 05:20 Tools
Success in UK 02:50 Tools
Going Solo in LA 05:15 Tools
Part Two, Chapter Five: Politics In America 00:39 Tools
Anti-Intellectualism 00:39 Tools
Intro/Smokers Vs. Drinkers (Album Version) 01:33 Tools
Karaoke Comedy 01:33 Tools
Part One, Chapter One: Gideons 00:39 Tools
Stop Your Internal Dialog 05:59 Tools
Intro (Album Version) 00:26 Tools
There is No Death (Mushroom Enema, Pt. 2) 00:26 Tools
12 - Hooligans 00:00 Tools
CapZeyeZ Complete Interview 00:00 Tools
19 - Gideon's 00:00 Tools
The SOB In the Carvel Truck 02:54 Tools
Part One, Chapter Three: I'm Talking to the Women Here 05:59 Tools
I.r.s. Bust (Album Version) 01:09 Tools
Dance Club (Album Version) 01:44 Tools
Pt 13 00:00 Tools
Oklahoma - I'm Sorry, Folks 00:00 Tools
Part One, Chapter Two: Non-Smokers 00:00 Tools
21 - The Sanctify Of Life 00:00 Tools
Part Two, Chapter Five: I.R.S. Bust 00:00 Tools
I'm Bill Hicks And I'm Dead No 05:09 Tools
Confession Time (C.O.P.S.) 05:59 Tools
Alcohol is a Drug, Jesus is a Rabbit, Carrot Top is a Comedian, Gallagher is Breaking Food 05:59 Tools
Sewing Judas Priest 05:27 Tools
Part One, Chapter Two: Gifts of Forgivness 05:09 Tools
Polls (Album Version) 05:09 Tools
Part One, Chapter One: Fevered Egos 05:27 Tools
New Flag 05:27 Tools
Puppet People (Album Version) 13:10 Tools
Shane's Song (Album Version) 02:02 Tools
A Killer Idea (Album Version) 06:56 Tools
My Parents (Album Version) 02:02 Tools
Fries (Album Version) 02:02 Tools
Part One, Chapter Two: Pro Life 02:02 Tools
Please Do Not Disturb (Album Version) 06:56 Tools
I Can Relate on the Values Issue 06:56 Tools
Who Dat at My Door? 06:56 Tools
04 - Kennedy & The Warren Commission 03:10 Tools
Part Two, Chapter Five: Gays In the Military 02:24 Tools
Pussywhipped Satan (Album Version) 04:39 Tools
The War On Drugs (Album Version) 05:28 Tools
Kennedy & The Warren Commision (Album Version) 05:43 Tools
The F Word (Album Version) 00:52 Tools
Jiminy Christmas, Consarnit, John Brown It and Holy Fuck 00:52 Tools
Part Two, Chapter Five: A New Flag (Patriotism) 01:13 Tools
Bill Hicks - Beer Vs Pot 04:39 Tools
Lift Me Lord (Album Version) 00:52 Tools
Youre Goin To Hell Boy 05:43 Tools
Sexual Thought 03:59 Tools
Arizona Bay/Waco Incident 00:52 Tools
School Days (Album Version) 05:43 Tools
Part Two, Chapter Seven: Rush Limbaugh 05:43 Tools
Non-smokers (Album Version) 05:43 Tools
Trying To Quit (Album Version) 01:11 Tools
Smoke a Joint, You Bite the Nose Off Your Wife 01:11 Tools
06 - Polls 03:59 Tools
04 - You Ain't From Around Her 03:24 Tools
Pot Smoking (Album Version) 01:11 Tools
Vs. The Audience 1 (Album Version) 03:13 Tools
13 - Sewing Judas Priest 00:00 Tools
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Goodbye Lizard Scum 03:40 Tools
Jesus Was a Southern White Man 03:40 Tools
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One Of The Boys (clinton) (Album Version) 01:03 Tools
Wizards Have Landed (Album Version) 01:43 Tools
Drugs Are Bad (Album Version) 03:13 Tools
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Gifts Of Forgiveness (Album Version) 05:08 Tools
A New Flag (patriotism) (Album Version) 01:12 Tools
Poe-Naw-Grah-Fee (Album Version) 01:43 Tools
Yul Brynner (Album Version) 01:43 Tools
Snooker Needs Riots 01:43 Tools
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Today a young man on acid realized.. 00:30 Tools
Penthouse Letters (Album Version) 06:52 Tools
Spectravision 02:07 Tools
The Lost Hour 01:50 Tools
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Deficit (jesse Helms) (Album Version) 02:47 Tools
Are You Guys Drug Dealers? (Album Version) 01:50 Tools
Drunk Driving (Album Version) 06:52 Tools
Talking Car (Album Version) 06:52 Tools
Evil Annoying Idiot Fucks 06:52 Tools
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Closing Credits 03:33 Tools
Kennedy & The Warren Commissio 03:09 Tools
Kids (Album Version) 02:47 Tools
08 - News, Movies, Religion 13:56 Tools
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UFOs 03:08 Tools
Fevered Egos (Album Version) 03:08 Tools
What's Wrong? (Album Version) 03:08 Tools
03 - Kids 05:00 Tools
07 - We Know She's Not A Good Actre 03:28 Tools
News / Movies / Religion (Album Version) 13:53 Tools
Chicks Dig Jerks (Album Version) 04:45 Tools
New York Apartment (Album Version) 13:53 Tools
Cause Of Sexual Thought (Album Version) 13:53 Tools
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I'm Bill Hicks and 03:28 Tools
Dinosaurs 05:59 Tools
Children On Airplanes (Album Version) 03:51 Tools
People Suck…And They're Easier to Kill When They're Fetuses 03:51 Tools
Pt 15 03:51 Tools
Part Three, Chapter Ten: The Elite 03:51 Tools
Part Two, Chapter Six: Save Willie 03:51 Tools
Smokers Vs Drinkers 03:21 Tools
Modern Bummer (Album Version) 06:32 Tools
Waco (koresh) (Album Version) 05:34 Tools
Dick Jokes (Album Version) 07:09 Tools
50 Year Smoker (Album Version) 01:37 Tools
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The Hooligans Are Loose 23:45 Tools
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Quiet Loner (Album Version) 00:57 Tools
Dirty Jokes 00:57 Tools
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Bill Hicks - Shrooms 00:57 Tools
Film (Album Version) 06:15 Tools
Mechanics Of Pornography (Album Version) 06:15 Tools
Save Wilie (Album Version) 06:15 Tools
The Anti Christ 06:15 Tools
Young Lady (Album Version) 06:15 Tools
Jesus, What Balls 06:15 Tools
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Into / I Love My Job 04:41 Tools
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Post-show Guitar 06:15 Tools
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Smoking Chi, NY 03:44 Tools
The War (Album Version) 03:44 Tools
Confession Time (cops) (Album Version) 03:44 Tools
More War (Album Version) 03:44 Tools
Here's Your Tab 03:44 Tools
Lies, Liars, Scumbags One and All 03:44 Tools
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It S Just A Ride 00:00 Tools
Nothing Goes Right 07:00 Tools
Clam Lappers & Sonic the Hedgehog(tm) 03:44 Tools
Burning Issues (Album Version) 05:35 Tools
My One Man Show (Album Version) 01:32 Tools
Mandatory Marijuana (Album Version) 01:32 Tools
Praying For Nuclear Holocaust (Album Version) 01:32 Tools
Summertime (Album Version) 01:32 Tools
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You're Wrong Night (Album Version) 05:35 Tools
Childbirth isn't natural 05:35 Tools
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Evolution 00:00 Tools
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I Love My Job (Album Version) 02:55 Tools
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Smoking In Heaven (Album Version) 03:56 Tools
Backed Up (Album Version) 03:56 Tools
Girl Of Your Dreams (Album Version) 03:56 Tools
Bill Hicks' Ride 00:00 Tools
My Point 03:56 Tools
Pro Life (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Dark Poet 00:00 Tools
Artistic Roll Call (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
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Relentless 1992 (Full Show) 00:00 Tools
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TheAnti-Christ 00:00 Tools
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Working (Album Version) 08:02 Tools
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Cats Or Dogs [Explicit] 03:21 Tools
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You Are Free To Do What We Tell 59:45 Tools
Worst Audience Ever (Album Version) 08:02 Tools
Suing Judas Priest 03:31 Tools
Philosophy 59:45 Tools
JFK 03:31 Tools
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I Don't Have a Boss 03:31 Tools
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Drugs & Music 03:31 Tools
05 - Drugs 03:31 Tools
Punks (Where's The Bone?) [Explicit] 01:15 Tools
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14 - 200 million sperm (featuring rage against the machine) 03:34 Tools
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War in Iraq 12:09 Tools
What Is Pornography? - Bill Hicks 06:01 Tools
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Smoking Chi NY 02:56 Tools
Blowjobs 02:56 Tools
Sleep & The Message (Album Version) 02:56 Tools
So far from home 04:15 Tools
Positive Drug Stories 01:15 Tools
06 - Oklahoma 05:26 Tools
05 - Sorry Wrong Meeting 03:32 Tools
Mick And Keef [Explicit] 02:58 Tools
Life is but a Dream 06:11 Tools
Beer vs. Pot 02:56 Tools
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Clam Lappers & Sonic Hedgeho 03:21 Tools
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Live Letterman 1 03:21 Tools
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Interview 02 02:37 Tools
13 - Hotels 01:15 Tools
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Ladies And Gentlemen .... Bill Hicks [Explicit] 03:48 Tools
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The Beatles 01:00 Tools
Christ and Christians 03:39 Tools
Clam Lappers & Sonic Hedgehog 03:39 Tools
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Easter (Album Version) 01:19 Tools
Deep Thoughts [Explicit] 03:51 Tools
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You Are Free To Do What We Tell You To 02:58 Tools
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Someday 02:55 Tools
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Jazz (Instrumental) 02:55 Tools
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The Elite (Album Version) 01:04 Tools
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William Melvin "Bill" Hicks (December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician. His humor challenged mainstream beliefs, aiming to "enlighten people to think for themselves." Hicks used a ribald approach to express his material, describing himself as "Chomsky with dick jokes", while conceding that his humor was "caring". His material largely consisted of general discussions about society, religion, politics, philosophy and personal issues. Hicks' material was often controversial and steeped in dark comedy. In both his stand-up performances and during interviews, he often criticized consumerism, superficiality, mediocrity and banality within the media and popular culture, describing them as oppressive tools of the ruling class, meant to "keep people stupid and apathetic." Born in Valdosta, Georgia, Bill Hicks was the son of Jim and Mary (Reese) Hicks and had two older siblings: sister Lynn and brother Steve. The family lived in Florida, Alabama, and New Jersey, before settling in Houston, Texas when Hicks was seven. He was raised in the Southern Baptist faith, where he first began performing as a comedian for other children at Sunday School. Hicks was 16 years old when he started performing stand-up comedy at the Comedy Workshop in Houston, Texas, in 1978. During the 1980s he toured the United States extensively and performed a number of high-profile television appearances. It was in the UK, however, where Hicks first amassed a significant fan base, packing large venues with his 1991 tour. Hicks died of pancreatic cancer in 1994 at the age of 32. In the years after his death, his work and legacy achieved the significant admiration and acclaim of numerous comedians, writers, actors and musicians alike. In 2007 he was voted the 6th greatest stand-up comic on the UK's Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups and again in the updated 2010 list as the 4th greatest stand-up comic. Hicks was associated with the Texas Outlaw Comics group developed at the Comedy Workshop in Houston in the 1980s. Once Hicks gained some underground success in night clubs and universities, he quit drinking. However, Hicks continued to smoke cigarettes. His nicotine addiction, love of smoking, and occasional attempts to quit became a recurring theme in his act throughout his later years. In January 1986, Hicks found himself broke, having spent all his money on a variety of substances. His career soon received another upturn, though, as he appeared on Rodney Dangerfield's Young Comedians Special, in 1987. The same year, he moved to New York City, and, for the next 5 years, performed about 300 times a year. On the album Relentless, he jokes that he quit using drugs because "once you've been taken aboard a UFO, it's kind of hard to top that", although in his performances, he continued to extol the virtues of LSD, marijuana, and psychedelic mushrooms. He fell back to chain-smoking, a theme that would figure heavily in his performances from then on. In 1988, Hicks signed on with his first professional business manager, Jack Mondrus.[citation needed] Throughout 1989, Mondrus worked to convince many clubs to book Hicks, promising that the wild drug- and alcohol-induced behavior was behind him. Among the club managers hiring the newly sober Hicks was Colleen McGarr, who would become his girlfriend and fiancée in later years.[citation needed] Hicks quit drinking in 1988, as stated in his 1990 album Dangerous on the first track, entitled "Modern Bummer". In 1989 he released his first video, Sane Man. In 1990, Hicks released his first album, Dangerous, performed on the HBO special One Night Stand, and performed at Montreal's Just for Laughs festival. He was also part of a group of American stand-up comedians performing in London's West End in November. Hicks was a huge hit in the UK and Ireland and continued touring there throughout 1991. That year, he returned to Just for Laughs and filmed his second video, Relentless. Hicks made a brief detour into musical recording with the Marble Head Johnson album in 1992. During the same year he toured the UK, where he recorded the Revelations video for Channel 4. He closed the show with his soon-to become-famous philosophy regarding life, "It's Just a Ride". Also in that tour he recorded the stand-up performance released in its entirety on a double CD titled Salvation. Hicks was voted "Hot Standup Comic" by Rolling Stone magazine in 1993. He moved to Los Angeles in 1992. The progressive metal band Tool invited Hicks to open a number of concerts in its 1992 Lollapalooza appearances, where Hicks once asked the audience to look for a contact lens he had lost. Thousands of people complied. Members of Tool felt that they and Hicks "were resonating similar concepts". Intending to raise awareness about Hicks's material and ideas, Tool dedicated their triple-platinum album Ænima (1996) to Hicks. Both the lenticular casing of the Ænima album packaging as well as the chorus of the title track "Ænema" make reference to a sketch from Hicks's Arizona Bay album, in which he contemplates the idea of Los Angeles falling into the Pacific Ocean. Ænima's final track, "Third Eye" contains samples from Hicks's Sane Man and Relentless albums. An alternate version of the Ænima artwork shows a painting of Bill Hicks, calling him "Another Dead Hero," and mentions of Hicks are found both in the liner notes and on the record. In 1984, Hicks was invited to appear on Late Night with David Letterman for the first time. He had a joke that he used frequently in comedy clubs about how he caused a serious accident that left a classmate using a wheelchair. NBC had a policy that no handicapped jokes could be aired on the show, making his stand-up routine difficult to perform without mentioning words such as "wheelchair". On October 1, 1993, Hicks was scheduled to appear on Late Show with David Letterman, his 12th appearance on a Letterman late-night show, but his entire performance was removed from the broadcast—then the only occasion where a comedian's entire routine was cut after taping. Hicks's stand-up routine was removed from the show allegedly because Letterman and his producer were nervous about a religious joke ("If Jesus came back he might not want to see so many crosses"). Hicks said he believed it was due to a pro-life commercial aired during a commercial break. Both the show's producers and CBS denied responsibility. Hicks expressed his feelings of betrayal in a letter to John Lahr of The New Yorker. Although Letterman later expressed regret at the way Hicks had been handled, Hicks did not appear on the show again. Hicks's mother, Mary, appeared on the January 30, 2009 episode of Late Show. Letterman played the routine in its entirety. Letterman took full responsibility for the original censorship and apologized to Mrs. Hicks. Letterman also declared he did not know what he was thinking when he pulled the routine from the original show in 1993, saying, "It says more about me as a guy than it says about Bill because there was absolutely nothing wrong with that." For many years, Hicks was friends with fellow comedian Denis Leary. But in 1993 Hicks was angered by Leary's album No Cure for Cancer, which featured lines and subject matter similar to Hicks's routine. According to American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story by Cynthia True, upon hearing the album "Bill was furious. All these years, aside from the occasional jibe, he had pretty much shrugged off Leary's lifting. Comedians borrowed, stole stuff, and even bought bits from one another. Milton Berle and Robin Williams were famous for it. This was different. Leary had practically taken line for line huge chunks of Bill's act and recorded it." The friendship ended abruptly as a result. At least three stand-up comedians have gone on the record stating they believe Leary stole Hicks's material as well as his persona and attitude. In an interview, when Hicks was asked why he had quit smoking, he answered, "I just wanted to see if Denis would, too." In another interview, Hicks said, "I have a scoop for you. I stole his [Leary's] act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and, to really throw people off, I did it before he did." During a 2003 Comedy Central roast of Denis Leary, comedian Lenny Clarke, a friend of Leary's, said there was a carton of cigarettes backstage from Bill Hicks with the message, "Wish I had gotten these to you sooner." This joke was cut from the final broadcast. The controversy surrounding plagiarism is also mentioned in American Scream: Leary was in Montreal hosting the "Nasty Show" at Club Soda, and Colleen [McGarr?] was coordinating the talent so she stood backstage and overheard Leary doing material incredibly similar to old Hicks riffs, including his perennial Jim Fixx joke: "Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut. The plot thickens." When Leary came offstage, Colleen, more stunned than angry, said, "Hey, you know that's Bill Hicks's material! Do you know that's his material?" Leary stood there, stared at her without saying a word, and briskly left the dressing room. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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