American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story by Cynthia True (.ePUB)
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American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story by Cynthia True
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Overview: Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Andy Kaufman — add Bill Hicks to that list of brilliant, fearless comics. Just emerging from underground cult status when he died at age thirty-three, Bill Hicks spent most of his life making audiences roar — and censors cringe — with biting social satire about everything from former president George Bush to rock stars who hawk diet Coke. His nervy talent redefined the boundaries of comedy in the ’80s and won him a list of admirers that includes John Cleese, George Carlin, and many others. The Texas-born Hicks, died in 1994 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 33.
This posthumous biography reveals for the first time what made Bill Hicks tick — what made him laugh, what pissed him off, and what he saw as his ultimate mission: to release people from their prison of ignorance. From his first comedy gig at Bible camp to his infamous cancellation on The Late Show with David Letterman, Cynthia True portrays an artist whose outrage, drive, and compassion fueled a controversial body of work that still resonates today.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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