I am an American and I never heard of the guy. I went to the web site link and he reminds me of George Carlin without the style.

Paris, because at least I heard of her.

You think when Bill Hicks comes back he ever wants to see a fucking Russell Crowe movie?

I think I've died a little inside.

...i imagine that mistah hicks'd be mighty excited...the great russell crowe eh?

Alien coz i hope he's helping them devise a plan to get us off this f'ing planet

Wasn't Denis Leary available?

if the Mac zealots are the same ones who are screaming at the idea of crowe playing hicks....

anyway Ive heard of hicks as well. but then Im not Under 20 and think comedy starts and finishes with little Britain.

steve, because Im sure he is a hicks fan.

I've heard of him, and I'm a waffle waitress.

Goatboy is displeased at this travesty...

That's a sad indictment of America today. They forget the genius who spoke the truth and they remember Bu$h. Twice. Or is it just because you're too old / too young to have taken notice of one of the most revered comedians of the late 20th Century?

What you reading for?

Anyone who doesn't know who Bill Hicks is, I demand you immediately get pretty any Bill Hicks DVD or CD and beat yourself to a pulp for missing out on his pretty much perpetually correct, cutting and almost always hilarious social commentary.

His stuff about George Bush Snr is pretty applicable to his son, as it happens.

Steven "How far up your ass does this guy have to be before you realise he is fucking you" Raith.

Personally I would rather have Russell trying (but probably failing) to play Bill rather than put up with to Dennis Learys existence.

Personally I think Hicks would be pissing himself laughing at people getting upset about who plays him in a film. Tis a pity he isn't around as he would have had so much material concerning Bush II (the sequel).

Perhaps the world (particularly the US & UK) need to be reminded of how angry we should be, and if that takes Mr Crowe then so be it.

@Hud you need to broaden your horizons, theres a couple of decent books about Hicks which may put him in perspective

Sad, because he is gone, when we needed him more than ever

I moved to the US some 7 years ago, I was astonished that Hicks was virtually unknown to the general population. Seems his style of attack humour was not popular with the TV moguls, hence little or no TV exposure of his style. Denis Leary is a pale reflection of Hicks at his best.

On a newly elected president

"No matter what promises you make on the campaign trail - blah, blah, blah - when you win, you go into this smoky room with the twelve industrialist, capitalist scumfucks that got you in there, and this little screen comes down... and it's a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you've never seen before, which looks suspiciously off the grassy knoll.... And then the screen comes up, the lights come on, and they say to the new president, 'Any questions?'

"Just what my agenda is."

Efros

They're sure to get the anti-marketer dollar with that one. Very strong demographic.

Only an evolved being could play Bill Hicks - Crowe's still asking "Where's my thumbs ?"

..doesn't do a bad showing playing Bill Hicks in Slight Return, but it's still not Bill Hicks.

Russel Crowe though...

"Wellll, lookee here, we got ourselves a reader!"

What you reedin' for Sarah...

I remember Bill Hicks.

He used to run a body shop in the tiny southwestern town I grew up in. Of course, he had kids, but said small town at one point featured a 27 y.o. grannie, so I guess it's possible.

Don't remember him being particularly funny though, although I guess it could be a paint fumes thing.

Gosh - to think he's famous now.

Remember Hicks' bit about New Kids On The Block? Well...

To the prospective makers of this documentary: if he wasn't good enough for you to do a biography while he was alive, why all the interest posthumously? "Stop putting a fucking dollar sign on everything," as he said.

I suggest a boicott of the proposed movie; please tell your friends not to support the cheapening of Hicks' work.

Incidentally, this project smacks of a marketer's revenge on Hicks for his marketing sketch ;)

Dick Cheney, because he's the master hard seller.

I think God put Russell Crowe here to test my faith...

if Russel Crowe is an Australian or a New Zealander, I just replied that he was a wanker and left it at that.

If this project does come about, and Russell Crowe does a good job, who's to argue? If, as a result, more people become aware of the great man then it's a win win!

Although he could completely f*ck it up of course...

FYI Russell Crowe is a k1w1, he was born in NZ and whilst he moved to the lucky country at an early age he is not from god's country..

He does prefer to be classified as an Australian but we don't want him, any country in need of a has-been actor? You can adopt your very own chubby, racist beer swilling*, no good actor.

*Although beer swilling has been put in here as a detriment it is only for effect and is certainly not considered a detriment by this poster

I can see it now:

"My name is Maximus Goatboy Meridius...

I want to wear you like a feed-bag."

It's a half-hour weekly show that I will host, entitled Let's Hunt and Kill Russell Crowe. It's a fairly self-explanatory concept: Each week we let the hounds of hell loose and chase that no-talent Ocker motherfucker across the globe until I catch him by that fruity ponytail, pull him to his knees, and put a shotgun in his mouth like a big black cock of death *BOOM*

Sigh, I hear kittens dying.

About the only person I could take semi-seriously as Bill is.. No, wait, there no-one. Maybe Chris Morris with a strap-on merkin accent, but even that's a stretch.

Sarah Bee:

I'll start the pump up, you drive your truck on around back..

(RIP Bill, you irreplaceable fucker)

can go suck satan's cock for all I care...

Please don't mention that moronic piece of shit on the same page as the blessed St Bill of Hicks, anyone that unoriginal that they have to steal Hicks' worst material because it was more "tv friendly" deserves to suffer in tripe like Rescue Me, has it been cancelled yet?

Alien, because that's what "network friendly" was to Bill Hicks.

"I am an American and I never heard of the guy."

Oh my God, you're an American? Well, fuck me pink, gets the flags out guys, this prick's American. Shit, if he hasn't heard of Bill Hicks then obviously he never existed!

I now have an amusing vision of Bill Hicks running around on stage with a falsetto voice shouting "I'm an American, I'm an American". Well, congratu-fucking-lations dickhead, no fucker's heard of you either.

If you don't know who he is, check out some of his material on YouTube. Very wise man indeed...

I'm off to listen to "Hooker with a Penis". It reminds me of the RIAA.

Russell Crowe, the U2 of acting.

Insert picture of Vader here.

I suppose it'll be Crowe's turn once Vanilla Ice has finished.

I ask the readers to strike the mention of Denis Leary from their memories. And if anyone knows where I can get a copy of Demolition Man with his scenes removed please let me know.