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When I think of the main people who helped me stay sane and not become 100% bitter in my 20s, two out of three are comedians: Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Noam Ch
by PavlovsCat 8y ago
When I think of the main people who helped me stay sane and not become 100% bitter in my 20s, two out of three are comedians: Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Noam Chomsky. I don't care if they are cliché, IMO they are for good reason :)
> "He was taking fully the role of the witch-doctor in front of the audience... like a big, giant exorcism of all the evil shit that's inside of us, that poisons us day to day. Talk shows aren't gonna help it, the news isn't.. You just need a guy to get up there, take you by the lapels and shake the shit out of you."
-- Eric Bogosian about Bill Hicks