Bill Hicks - "The Elephant Is Dead (Bush)" (nsfw, language)

A tiny bit of cathartic "Bush hatred" from Bill's act in December 1992 that I'm sure will get plenty of play again after November 2nd. :)

Download the free audio (http://www.sacredcow.com/media/source/store_items/arizonabay/elephant.mp3) and/or read the transcript below.




"So what else happened, man? I'm over in fucking England -- and Bush fucking loses! Must've been a Secret--"

(applause)

"It must've been a Secret Service plot to keep me out the country the night he lost; to protect Bush - y'know, his eardrums from shattering - when I shrieked with fucking laughter.

AHHHHH-HA-HA-HA-HA!!! He's dead! It's dead! The Republican beast is fucking dead!!!

Twelve years of that rampaging Republican fucking elephant beast finally brought to its knees! (imitates an elephant being shot with a rifle)

Yes! You're dead, you fucker! You fuck! You fuck! You're dead, dead, dead! We hate you, hate you! Now you do you know it? Now do you feel it? Feel the fucking hate. Feel it!

Call off your dogs! Call your little Vietnamese potbelly Rush Limbaugh back to your fold, you demon fuck!

Bring Pat Buchanan back! (imitates snarling dog) Call him back, you lost!

Finally. The Republican beast elephant, brought to its fucking knees. 'Cause I feel like me and my friends and all the artists in the fucking country were like little Pygmy tribes shooting darts at that elephant for twelve years and finally...(imitates killing elephant with the rifle)

Do our little Pygmy dance...(chants)...yes!"

he was every freepers nightmare. and he was a texan to boot. we need more texans like him.

And as you can tell from the clip, the crowd loved it. And they loved Bill.

That's one of the things he wanted to achieve for himself and his audience. I think this clip is an example of that...shaman Bill recounting for the celebrating tribe how the wild demon beast was brought down.

I have been listening to a lot of Hicks lately, its so relevant these days and so will this, as you say, be on November 3rd. Damn, wish Bill could come back to help us celebrate.

...there is no such thing as death, and he will be right with us the whole time. :)


"I'm glad that psilocybin mushrooms are illegal. Know why? Because when I took them, I laid in a field of green grass, thinking 'I love everything!'

The heavens parted, God looked down and rained Gifts of Forgiveness unto my being, healing me on every level, psychically, physically, emotionally, and I realized that our true nature is spirit, not body, that we are eternal beings, and God's love is unconditional and there's nothing we can ever do to change that, it is only our illusion that we are separate from God or that we are alone; in fact, the reality is that we are one with God and that He loves us.

Now if that isn't a hazard to this country... you see my point? How are we going to keep building nuclear weapons? What's going to happen to the arms industry when we realize we are all One? It's gonna fuck up the economy! The economy that's fake anyway! Which would be a real bummer, you know. So you can see why the government's cracking down on the idea of experiencing unconditional love.

-- Bill Hicks, Rant in E Minor

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I've been listening to a lot of Hicks myself. Hysterical.

Honest question: who really came up with the screaming thing first--him or Sam Kinison? I know they were friends, but somebody stole it from SOMEBODY.

In any case, he is funny as hell.

Bill did "the screaming thing" quite genuinely, while it was basically a schtick for Kinison. You're right about them being friends, though - kindred souls, some might say.

If I remember correctly, that's what it says in Hicks' biography, entitled, interestingly enough, "American Scream". I could be wrong, though. I don't have the book handy.

However, I wouldn't say that Hicks stole it from Kinison. They were both similar in some ways, but I think ultimately very different in their presentation and the way they used screaming for comic effect.

For me, the main difference between the two is that Hicks was not interested in compromising to make his routine palatable to corporate American culture. Kinison, while retaining a lot of his rage in his act, didn't seem to have the political/cultural edge that Hicks had and therefore became a "name". Same with Denis Leary, who basically stole Hicks' persona and defanged its political bite so that it would be accepted for what passes for "edgy" humor in our pop culture these days.

Just my opinion. Kinison could sometimes make laugh. Hicks almost always makes me laugh and, more importantly, he always makes me think.

:toast:

...how we need you,I told a friend while talking over the phone the other night that I so wished Bill Hicks was still alive,no one would stick it to GW like Bill.

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Was he a comic?

just as he was beginning to receive somewhat wider recognition in the US (the New Yorker did a profile of him shortly before his death). Ironically, he was like a rock star in England; because of his lacerating attacks on the American power structure and culture, however, he was pretty much shut out of the American mainstream. He is often referred to as "the comic's comic", because so many comics in America knew of him and admired him (including Janeane Garofalo). He was also referred to as the next Lenny Bruce.

He made a few appearances on David Letterman but his last appearance there was censored (removed entirely from the show) because it was deemed too controversial.

In addition to his scathing political/cultural critiques, he preached a very profound vision of what we humans could be if we really made the effort.

http://www.billhicks.com/

:-)