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Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
Package Dimensions : 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.82 Ounces
Media Format : DVD
ASIN : B000SKNCKC
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Lwoods

One of his best

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2019

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I've watched a lot of his shows and recordings and this had things I've never seen before. Things that must've been cut out of other versions..

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Got here fast and enjoyed the video

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2016

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Thanks! Got here fast and enjoyed the video greatly

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Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2016

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Won't play on North American devices

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Magic Lemur

Still the Original & Best Bill Hicks UK DVD

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2010

About 10 years ago, my first experience of Bill was this DVD. It made me see, for the first time, that there were still Prophets in the World who spoke out & challenged the status quo & made people sit up & think about what life should be like - kind, compassionate & filled with truth.
As I've now read, seen & heard almost everything ever made about or by Bill, I thought it was a good time to go back to the start of many people's journey's and see if this matched up to other potential starting points in the form of American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story & the new film: ' American - The Bill Hicks Story '.

Happily it does & it is surprising how insightful this DVD can be, despite the fact that its contents have been widely diseminated across the internet (e.g. the 'It's Just a Ride' routine on Zeitgeist ).

***

As an example, the documentary 'It's Just a Ride' provides many interviews & perspectives which have been forgotten with time. One curious thing I found was how unequivically praising Jay Leno was of him & how many times he featured as a commentator (given that Bill regularly did an infamous routine satirising Leno & imitating him blowing his brains out).
Also in this documentary are comments from Bill's dad (who passed away before the latest documentary) & also many comments by contemporary comics & critics who have faded into obscurity now but help place Bill in his proper context.
There are also some very interesting observations, such as that Bill didn't want to be Lenny Bruce but was more looking to be Jesus (during his angriest moment at the Temple).

Moving on from the documentary, there is Bill's performance at the Dominion theatre in London, which was almost undeniably his finest performance. Whereas Bill always seemed slightly unwelcome & at odds in America, he always seemed on top form when in the UK (e.g. Salvation - Oxford, 11/11/1992 ). This performance is no exception & the British audience seems to inspire Bill to bring out his best material & be most at ease on stage.

There is also the fact that this was (barring TV performances on Letterman) Bill's biggest ever live audience &, rather than being dwarfed by the set-up (as he feared), he seems to make it his own.

The first thing after the documentary is a short intro video to his live performance about how Bill was born in 1961 & always wanted to be a cowboy ("Fighting corruption & speaking out for truth and justice"). Irony is that apparently Hicks couldn't ride a horse, but the set-up is still very well executed.

As Bill walks on stage following the intro to the sound of Jimi Hendrix, he is seen silhouetted against fiery flames in a black cowboy hat & coat.
To give you a flavour of what's on the DVD, here is a tracklist of what's on here (as one doesn't seem available elsewhere):

Track 3 ('LA & the Weather') is about Los Angeles & its 'hot & sunny weather' & also his routines about the LA riots.
4 ('It's Hard to Quit Smoking') involves his normal routines about smoking but this time with the twist that he's just quit.
Track 5 ('Arming the World') covers George Bush & how sold weapons to the Koreans in an attempt to win votes in the 1992 election & also about him selling the Iraqi's "machine-tools" which, as if by magic, were converted into weapons. (e.g. the 'flame throwing rake'!) This bit includes his oft-quoted Shane routine.
Track 6 ('JFK') is Bill's routine about the JFK assassination & the assassination museum & how, if you could go up the window, you would notice how impossible it would be for Oswald to have killed him.
7 ('Christianity') is Bill's satire of Creationists & his discussion with them about Dinosaurs.
8 ('Grassy Knoll') is based on Bill's observation about 'Christians and crosses' & then continuing with a further routine on JFK & the gunshot heard on the Grassy Knoll.
9 ('Stuntmen & Chuck Norris Movies') involves how to top the stunts in Terminator 2 in other films using an ingenius new method...
10 ('Pizza & Marketing') is another famous routine featuring the bit where Bill says about "Anyone without advertising or marketing... Kill yourself!".
11 (' Basic Instinct ') is Bill's opinion on one of the 90's biggest films & how it is in fact a piece of s**t.
12 ('Goat Boy') is the most infamous routine of all, involving Bill acting out his alter ego 'Randypan the Goatboy' whose only purpose is to give women pleasure.
13 ('British Porn') follows on from the Goatboy routine about how British porno's used to have blue dots covering the *ahem* best bits.
14 ('Smoking Pot'): Actually more of a routine on rednecks & how there are too many people in the World.
15 ('The Playground in the Sky'): Children on airplanes.
16 ('Good & Bad Time on Drugs'): Another famous routine about God leaving pot & mushrooms growing everywhere on the planet to facilitate our evolution.
17 ('Suckers' of Satan'): Bill's bit about Vanilla Ice sucking Satan's *ahem* pecker in order to attain fame.
18 ('Positive Drug Stories'): About how he never hears positive drugs stories on the news. Also includes the 'Just a Ride' ending (the best ending to any comedy routine...err... ever.)

***

Two downsides with this DVD.
First off there are no extras on the DVD. Admittedly this is because 1994 was still a year or VHS videos & so Extras didn't really exist (on DVD's, the documentary would usually be part of them). However, it would still be good to see some on here (though this is compensated by the 5 hours of extras on the new film ).

Second, there is an outright lie on the cover of the DVD. When I first saw it, I hadn't noticed it as I thought it genuinely was true. In hindsight - it isn't "Hick's last live performance", however much we might want it to be.
(Hicks' last live performance was at Igby's in Houston, Texas, ending with a bearded Hicks yelling along to Killing In The Name by Rage against the Machine.)

All being said though, this is still the best DVD/Book/CD around on Hicks, covering all his usual material but with a confidence & clarity that is just not seen in any of his other complete sets (though the edited CD's do capture some of it).
And, if this DVD is on your shelf gathering dust or has been scratched to hell, then I think its time you looked into it again too. It may now be 16 years old, but still Bill Hicks remains unsurpassed.

P.S. THIS DVD IS AVAILABLE IN THE U.S. AS PART OF Bill Hicks Live - Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian . This edition is also region 2, so will not play in US. However, it is still the best DVD available.

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Spider Monkey

Totally Bill Hicks

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2011

This is a great double DVD of Bill in concert and a documentary about his act. It is so good to see him do his thing live, and to see him get some recognition from his peers although it is a little late in retrospect. This is the place to go for your first outing of live Bill, the political satire is especially good and what Bill should ultimately be remembered for.

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Katie7!

we killed jfk

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2015

best comedian ever!!

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Magic Lemur

Still the Original & Best Bill Hicks DVD

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 18, 2010

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About 10 years ago, my first experience of Bill was this DVD. It made me see, for the first time, that there were still Prophets in the World who spoke out & challenged the status quo & made people sit up & think about what life should be like - kind, compassionate & filled with truth.
As I've now read, seen & heard almost everything ever made about or by Bill, I thought it was a good time to go back to the start of many people's journey's and see if this matched up to other potential starting points in the form of American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story & the new film: American - The Bill Hicks Story .

Happily it does & it is surprising how insightful this DVD can be, despite the fact that its contents have been widely diseminated across the internet (e.g. the 'It's Just a Ride' routine on Zeitgeist ).

***

As an example, the documentary 'It's Just a Ride' provides many interviews & perspectives which have been forgotten with time. One curious thing I found was how unequivically praising Jay Leno was of him & how many times he featured as a commentator (given that Bill regularly did an infamous routine satirising Leno & imitating him blowing his brains out).
Also in this documentary are comments from Bill's dad (who passed away before the latest documentary) & also many comments by contemporary comics & critics who have faded into obscurity now but help place Bill in his proper context.
There are also some very interesting observations, such as that Bill didn't want to be Lenny Bruce but was more looking to be Jesus (during his angriest moment at the Temple).

Moving on from the documentary, there is Bill's performance at the Dominion theatre in London, which was almost undeniably his finest performance. Whereas Bill always seemed slightly unwelcome & at odds in America, he always seemed on top form when in the UK (e.g. Salvation - Oxford, 11/11/1992 . This performance is no exception & the British audience seems to inspire Bill to bring out his best material & be most at ease on stage.

There is also the fact that this was (barring TV performances on Letterman) Bill's biggest ever live audience &, rather than being dwarfed by the set-up (as he feared), he seems to make it his own.

The first thing after the documentary is a short intro video to his live performance about how Bill was born in 1961 & always wanted to be a cowboy ("Fighting corruption & speaking out against truth and justice"). Irony is that apparently Hicks couldn't ride a horse, but the set-up is still very well executed.

As Bill walks on stage following the intro to the sound of Jimi Hendrix , he is seen silhouetted against fiery flames in a black cowboy hat & coat.
To give you a flavour of what's on the DVD, here is a tracklist of what's on here (as one doesn't seem available elsewhere):

Track 3 ('LA & the Weather') is about Los Angeles & its 'hot & sunny weather' & also his routines about the LA riots.
4 ('Arming the World') involves his normal routines about 'smoking' but this time with the twist that he's just quit.
Track 5 ('Arming the World') covers George Bush & how sold weapons to the Koreans in an attempt to win votes in the 1992 election & also about him selling the Iraqi's "machine-tools" which, as if by magic, were converted into weapons. (e.g. the 'flame throwing rake'!) This bit includes his oft-quoted Shane routine.
Track 6 ('JFK') is Bill's routine about the JFK assassination & the assassination museum & how, if you could go up the window, you would notice how impossible it would be for Oswald to have killed him.
7 ('Christianity') is Bill's satire of Creationists & his discussion with them about Dinosaurs.
8 ('Grassy Knoll') is based on Bill's observation about 'Christians and crosses' & then continuing with a further routine on JFK & the gunshot heard on the Grassy Knoll.
9 involves how to top the stunts in Terminator 2 in other films using an ingenius new method...
10 is another famous routine featuring the bit where Bill says about "Anyone without advertising or marketing... Kill yourself!".
11 (' Basic Instinct ') is Bill's opinion on one of the 90's biggest films & how it is in fact a piece of s**t.
12 ('Goat Boy') is the most infamous routine of all, involving Bill acting out his alter ego 'Randypan the Goatboy' whose only purpose is to give women pleasure.
13 ('British Porn') follows on from the Goatboy routine about how British porno's used to have blue dots covering the *ahem* best bits.
14 ('Smoking Pot'): Actually more of a routine on rednecks & how there are too many people in the World.
15 ('The Playground in the Sky'): Children on airplanes.
16 ('Good & Bad Time on Drugs'): Another famous routine about God leaving pot & mushrooms growing everywhere on the planet to facilitate our evolution.
17 ('Suckers' of Satan'): Bill's bit about Vanilla Ice sucking Satan's *ahem* pecker in order to attain fame.
18 ('Positive Drug Stories'): About how he never hears positive drugs stories on the news. Also includes the 'Just a Ride' ending (the best ending to any comedy routine...err... ever.)

***

Two downsides with this DVD.
First off there are no extras on the DVD. Admittedly this is because 1994 was still a year or VHS videos & so Extras didn't really exist (on DVD's, the documentary would usually be part of them). However, it would still be good to see some on here (though this is compensated by the 5 hours of extras on the new film ).

Second, there is an outright lie on the cover of the DVD. When I first saw it, I hadn't noticed it as I thought it genuinely was true. In hindsight - it isn't "Hick's last live performance", however much we might want it to be.
(Hicks' last live performance was at Igby's in Houston, Texas, ending with a bearded Hicks yelling along to Killing In The Name by Rage against the Machine.)

All being said though, this is still the best DVD/Book/CD around on Hicks, covering all his usual material but with a confidence & clarity that is just not seen in any of his other complete sets (though the edited CD's do capture some of it).
And if this DVD is on your shelf gathering dust or has been scratched to hell, then I think its time you looked into it again too. It may now be 16 years old, but still Bill Hicks remains unsurpassed.

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Gizzark Henry

Hicks at his best.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2008

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The last officially recorded concert by Bill Hicks before his death in early 1994, Revelations live at the Dominion Theatre is the finest of his limited DVD releases, coming as it does with the half-hour channel 4 documentary, Totally Bill Hicks.

Whilst it's not really the selling point here, Totally Bill Hicks is well worth watching. A brief overview of his career featuring minor interviews with many influential and imporant comedians (as well as great testimony by Jay Leno and David Letterman), the documentary is probably not something you want to watch in tandem with the main feature, as it does have a lot of clips from it contained within.

The Revelations performance itself, on the other hand, is quite literally Bill Hicks at his best. Having come within a whisper of his perfect live set by 1993, and in cantankerous mood having recently kicked cigarettes, Hicks stalks the stage, skinny and pale, unleashing his darkest, greatest material. Whilst Hicks can occasionally have a tendency to take something too far - he pounds his anti-marketing message a little too much - this DVD is probably his finest recorded moment, featuring the delightfully twisted Goat Boy and a razor-sharp extension of his material on drugs and smoking.

A curious documentary worth a watch or two, coupled with probably Bill Hicks' greatest officially recorded set, combine to make this DVD an essential purchase for any fan of Hicks or comedy.

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Chaz

If we all shared and tried to stop feeling better than another person because we have a better job ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 1, 2015

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Superb! I'm a huge comdey fan and bill hicks took stand up to a another level. This outlook on life and belief's/views on drugs, politics, religion, music, advertising, marketing and media are directly from his heart. You get a feeling when you watch bill hicks that he makes you want to go and talk about why we as a human race have still so much to learn about each other and at the same time you know there's people that will reject certain views due to being closed minded because they may have been too afraid of experimenting with they mind, body and soul. If we all shared and tried to stop feeling better than another person because we have a better job or a bigger house or more money than certain people, we wouldn't have the need to feel insecure and isolated from society because then you become society. Peace and love xx

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carefulshopper

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2018

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lots of re-ashed stories... some interesting facts, but all in all a bit disappointing

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S. J. Ruttledge

Shame it was his final gig

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2010

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Not the best gig Bill ever did, quite a disappointment really his earlier stuff was much more entertaining, doing material about US specific topics wouldn't really fly with many folks in the UK so I'm surprised he did this, a great pity he died so young and never got the chance to gig again after this

The DVD was worth the cash, mainly for the bonus features and the insight into Hicks's life

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