Bill Hicks - Relentless video

Bill Hicks' Relentless stand up comedy concert was filmed in 1991, at the Centaur Theatre, during the annual Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, Canada.

Bill Hicks released in 1990 his first stand up comedy album Dangerous and became a hit in Ireland and UK, so in 1991 returned to the Just for Laughs comedy Festival and recorded this second stand up comedy album: Relentless.

Bill Hicks' Relentless is not as dark as his later performances like Revelations, when he realised he might be dying, so the the material included on this comedy album is lighter, but his delivery is as angry as usual.

Going from Kennedy assassination to drugs, from Gulf War to alcohol, from UFOs to female hypocrisy, from religious bigotry to New Kids on the Block, Bill Hicks' stand up is hilariously funny.

Bill Hicks' Relentless was filmed almost 20 years ago, but all the things he railed against still holds true today, so we highly recommend to watch this video.

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Bill Hicks - Revelations video

Bill Hicks' Revelations stand up comedy concert was filmed in November 1992, before a live audience at the Dominion Theatre, during his UK tour.

Bill Hicks' Revelations was released on DVD, on July 3, 2006, by Channel 4, as part of the documentary Totally Bill Hicks.

Bill Hicks' stand up comedy show Revelations is the last officially recording of his concerts, before his death in 1994, concert closed with his famous philosophy "It's Just a Ride".

Revelations comedy concert presents Bill Hicks at his best, mastering his craft, being anger than ever on the hypocrisy and mediocrity that surround us.

Watching Bill Hicks' Revelations you have the revelation that he is not among us to ferociously fight not with events or people, but with trends and life philosophies that consume us all.

Even though some political events he talked about are out dated, the message and the relevance are still valid today, which gives you an insight of what unique talent Bill Hicks had: to take the essence and put into a form that will last forever.

Bill Hicks' Revelations includes some of the comedian's darkest material, delivered in that perfect manner that made him to be named the "comedian's comedian".

The Bill Hicks Totally DVD includes Revelations stand up comedy concert, a brief overiew of his career and interviews with famous comedians like Eddie Izzard, Jay Leno or David Letterman.

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American: The Bill Hicks Story Video

A new and radical way to view Bill Hicks as much more than a Stand Up Comedy performer. You can call this a comedian documentary from the future because Bill Hicks's thoughts and ideeas surpassed his time. Most of the things you can see in this documentary is recoreded in the 80's and 90's but is still relevant today. Bill Hicks stand up comedy concerts and videos are trully an invitation to the past, present and future. Some things never change...

American: The Bill Hicks Story video recreates Bill Hicks's life in a way never seen before. This comedy video shows how his world and characters were shaped and how he got to the futuristic conclusions (for his time of course). Bill Hicks doesn't just do Stand Up Comedy. He tries to get you to think and understand that some things should change and life can be good, or at least different, if you try to understand it completely. Ofcourse, all that through stand up comedy (and he pulls it off).

This documentary tries to adequately tell Bill Hicks's life and that is why it is an animation, to get you into the middle of things. This is also why the narrators are 10 people who were colsest to him and influenced his life: Mary Hicks (Bill's mom), Steve Hicks (older brother), Lynn Hicks (big sister), Kevin Booth (lifelong friend and producer), Dwight Slade (first comedy partner), David Johndrow (friend and photographer), James Ladmirault (Jimmy Pineapple), John Farneti (uncle figure), Andy Huggins (Houston comedian) and Steve Epstein (founder of the Texas Outlaw Comics).

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Bill Hicks - Sane Man video

Bill Hicks' Sane Man stand up comedy video was the comedian's first video, released on VHS in 1989 and reissued on DVD, on December 6, 2005.

With a runtime of 84 minutes, Bill Hicks' stand up comedy video Sane Man, directed by Kevin Booth presents us the Bill Hicks we all know, the enemy of mediocrity, banality and popular culture.

Bill Hicks' Sane Man stand up comedy show was filmed a year before his star-making comedy album Dangerous and as you would expect, the comedian uses dirty jokes to preach his favourites themes: political conformity, pop music, drugs, smoking and drinking, which is funny because he had just quited drinking in 1988.

Bill Hicks' stand up comedy shows, including this one are always funny and refreshing, because the world needed people like him saying all those things so many are thinking, yet are afraid to express.

Bill Hicks' DVD Sane Man inludes bonus features like never-before seen footage from his early performances, an extended version of teh main feature and Hick's biography "Hicksography"

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