Bill Hicks

William Melvin Hicks (December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994) was an American stand-up comedian, satirist, and social critic. Hicks is often compared to Lenny Bruce and Sam Kinison, and characterized his own performances as "Chomsky with dick jokes." http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/coveringideas/jokes.asp

Further reading

• American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story, by Cynthia True ISBN 0-283-06353-X
• Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines, by Bill Hicks, Foreword by John Lahr ISBN 1-84119-878-1 (UK edition February 2004)
• Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines, by Bill Hicks, Foreword by John Lahr ISBN 1-932360-65-4 (US edition November 2004)
• Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution, by Kevin Booth, Michael Bertin ISBN 0007198299 (UK edition March 2005)
• Comedian As Confidence Man: Studies in Irony Fatigue, by Will Kaufman ISBN 0814326579
• American Rebels, by Jack Newfield ISBN 1560255439
• One Consciousness: An Analysis of Bill Hicks' Comedy, by Paul Outhwaite ISBN 0-9537461-3-5 (3rd edition, revised and enlarged)