Sunday, March 29, 2009

Sam and Bill

Sam Kinison and Bill Hicks need no introduction buts it's a blog so I'm obligated to say something.

These guys are legends. Cut from similar cloth as Lenny Bruce and and George Carlin but what sets them in their own class is a furious delivery that could have only came from a post-70s party culture. Their relationship has been well documented in the past and before the eventual death of both comedians--Sam by a car crash in 92 and Bill by pancreatic cancer in 94-- allegations of joke theft went back and forth.

It only makes sense if the stories about the many nights on the road they spent together doing coke and contemplating existence are true. Naturally, similarities between content and style would appear after that sort of friendship.

All the modern greats and not-so-greats owe something to these two.

<a href="http://www.joost.com/1850032/t/Sam-Kinison-Breaking-the-Rules">Sam Kinison: Breaking the Rules</a>

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