Hicks had no mercy on his fellow comedians, especially a simpering demagogue like Jay Leno: "It all started when he did the Doritos commercial. Here's the deal, folks. You do a commercial, you're off the artistic roll call forever. End of story. Okay? You're another corporate f*ckin' shill. You're another whore at the capitalist gangbang...If you do a commercial, there's a price on your head. Everything you say is suspect. Every word that comes out of your mouth is like a turd falling into my drink."
Has that little piece of humorous commentary aged one minute since 1993? Everyone else is just following Leno to the bank. They don't even think about it anymore. I mean, who cares if Leno "betrayed" Conan O'Brien when Leno came back to the Tonight Show? They both betrayed themselves first. What O'Brien stands for is Bud Light, iPhone, American Express and whatever else he's endorsed. What's to betray? O'Brien even tried to make fun of himself for taking the money in his Bud commercial, as if Ivy League snark immunizes you from being thrown off the artistic roll call forever. Nope. It's just another turd in Bill Hicks' drink, and that's where the industrialist/capitalist scumfucks want their corporate comedy.
CHARLES M. YOUNG is a founding member of ThisCantBeHappening!, the new independent, collectively-owned, journalist-run, reader-(sort of)-supported online alternative newspaper. His work, and that of colleagues JOHN GRANT, DAVE LINDORFF and LINN WASHINGTON, JR., can be found at www.thiscantbehappening.net
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