Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution
by Kevin Booth
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Written by Bill Hick's lifelong friend, producer, and co-creator, Kevin Booth offers the inside story into the man who was only along for the ride for a tragically short time, yet left an indelible mark on comedy enthusiasts and freethinkers everywhere. Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution offers a rare fly-on-the-wall insight into the life of one of Britain's most loved US comedians. Adored in the UK for his unique style of savage, hilarious comedy, the one person who knew him inside and out show more tells of a man whose life was just as impassioned and off-the-wall as his comedy. Even back at High School, in Houston, Texas, Kevin was Bill's co-conspirator, as they sneaked out of Bill's strict Baptist home at night, and headed for the Comedy Workshop, where at the age of fourteen, Bill was going down a storm. They virtually shared every experience - from magic mushrooms to girls, but it was their music and their vision of comedy, which bound them so closely together. Kevin produced, engineered and performed on many of Bill's recordings, and it is largely due to him, that so much of Bill's comedy is readily available on CD and video. Michael Bertin, a hugely talented author from Austin, Texas, is co-writing Kevin's fly-on-the-wall biography of Bill Hicks. show lessTags
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This one was interesting - kind of an oral history of Hicks' life. As you might expect for a patchwork of so many contributors, the writing is pretty uneven, but it does give a fascinating account of life of life in and around Austin during the stand-up comedy boom of the 80s. Although the different witnesses frequently paint contradictory, and quite possibly unreliable, pictures, you end up with a compelling portrait of Hicks - flawed and restless, but endearingly ingenuous even when being intolerably obnoxious. Probably overlong for all but the most ardent of Hicks followers - there are better introductions out there - I really enjoyed it, and feel I have a better sense of Hicks for having read it. Which was really the point.
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- People/Characters
- Bill Hicks
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 792.7028092
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- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction
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- 792.7028092 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Stage presentations Variety shows and theatrical dancing; burlesque, cabaret, vaudeville, music hall, nightclubs modified standard subdivisions Techniques, procedures, apparatus, equipment, materials, miscellany Acting and performance standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
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- PN2287 .H495 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Dramatic representation. The theater Special regions or countries
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- Languages
- English
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