Caption: Bill rules the stage at the Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in 1991 - finally realising "there IS an audience for what I do."
Writer, Actor, Producer
Born: December 16, 1961
Star sign: Sagittarius
Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Known for: Comedy's Dirtiest Dozen (1988), Bill Hicks: Sane Man (1989), Bill Hicks: Revelations (1993), Bill Hicks Live: Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-up Comedian (2004)
Source: IMDB
Born in Georgia but raised in Houston since the age of 7, this self-described "Prince of Darkness" was compelled to use the comedy stage as his philosophic soapbox. At 13, he would sneak out of his suburban house to hustle his way onto open-mike night rosters. In two brief decades, Hicks worked his way up the sweat-stained comedy ladder to ...