[kj] OT: Stop this man

[Alexander Smith]

Hicks and Leary really aren't that similar. I mean yeah -- both  
thought-provoking, smart and angry (and smokers), but it goes well  
beyond that.

Alex in NYC



On Mar 19, 2008, at 6:33 PM, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:


> UM -- BILL HICKS DID *NOT* COPY DENIS LEARY! Denis Leary's No Cure  

> for Cancer came out after Hicks had passed away afaik!

>

> Hicks died of cancer in the early 90s.

>

> -Oliver

>

>

> ade wrote:

>> Totally. Particularly the smoking sketch :)

>>

>> Sadly, I saw Leary do it first, loved 'No Cure for Cancer' & then  

>> when I found Hicks, well, it sort've tainted anything Leary does  

>> for ever more... irony in action - Bill gets nowhere, except in the  

>> UK & then dies early, whilst the rip-off merchant does exceedingly  

>> well for himself.

>>

>> I'm sure some twat could make that into some sort of boring  

>> political example.

>>

>>

>>

>

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