WHERE THE HOKEY POKEY "IS" WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

Bill Hicks

Arizona Bay

  • AMG Review of Arizona Bay

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    Brian Flota
    All Music Guide

    Bill Hicks envisioned a big earthquake sending California into the ocean, leaving a place called Arizona Bay. When you hear how Hicks ridicules Los Angeles, you will think that Woody Allen's comments about Los Angeles in Annie Hall were compliments. Hicks extends his "comedy of hate" to Republicans ("The Elephant Is Dead") and fundamentalist Christians ("Dinosaurs in the Bible"). In "Marketing & Advertising," he urges everybody in his audience who is in marketing and advertising to "kill themselves." The punch line of the joke has Hicks talking as a marketer claiming, "he's going for that anti-marketing dollar, huge market." When Hicks isn't talking about politics or philosophical matters, he is telling the audience candid details about his private life. In "Clam Lappers & Sonic the Hedgehog," he talks about his emotional "arrested development," renting only pornos and video games from his local video store. This posthumous release culls material from 1992 performances as well as music he recorded, and even though from time to time the music is intrusive, it often works well with the jokes (especially on "The Elephant Is Dead"). Arizona Bay does not contain the fiery intensity of Rant in E-Minor, but it is his most consistently funny CD.

Genius
over 3 years ago

No other comedian like him. If you have an active interest in the world around you, an open mind, and a sense of humor check him out. Sample him at iTunes if you're interested.

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The Daily Bill Pt 1
over 2 years ago

I missed yesterday, um, because I uh suck, or something...

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The Daily Bill
over 2 years ago

Yeah, why isn't there anything about dinosaurs in the bible? Hmmm....

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The Daily Bill
over 2 years ago

Yeah, things sure are a lot different cross the pond then, aren't they? Don't know if it makes me feel good to be American or not. Cops don't carry guns? Yeah, o kaayy...

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The Daily Bill...
over 2 years ago

...Hicks, that is. Enjoy, everyone and let Bill bring the sunshine down upon us all.

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Another Dead Hero
about 1 year ago

Wouldn't you like to see a positive LSD story on the news? To hear what it's all about, perhaps? Wouldn't that be interesting? Just for once? "Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration — that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of o.

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Genius
over 3 years ago

No other comedian like him. If you have an active interest in the world around you, an open mind, and a sense of humor check him out. Sample him at iTunes if you're interested.

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