BOB NEWHART
versus
BILL HICKS

In one round, weighing in with a new Nick at Nite recording of pre-sitcom material: Bob Newhart!

And in the other corner, weighing in with a Rykodisc reissue: the late (pancreatic cancer, 1994, age 32) Bill Hicks!

Keep it clean, guys - at least one of you.
Ken Richardson

 

 

Bob Newhart: Button Down Concert

Bill Hicks: Relentless

PLAYING TIME 58 minutes 58 minutes
STYLE OF COMEDY Benny Lenny
FAVORITE SUBJECTS Jobs, inventions Sex, drugs, UFO's
FIRST TRACK "Greeting" "Greetings"
EXCERPT FROM FIRST TRACK "Tonight's show is kind of to prove that, yes, I did do something before the Bob Newhart Show." "I'm very tired of staring out at your vacant faces looking back at me and wanting me to fill your empty lives with humor you couldn't possibly think of yourselves."
PRESIDENTIAL HUMOR Abraham Lincoln prepares for Gettysburg. George Bush bombs Iraq.
ON SMOKING Sir Walter Raleigh tries to describe tobacco to the West Indies Company. "I now realize I smoke for simply one reason, and that is: spite. I hate you nonsmokers."
MOVIE IDEA Telling King Kong from the viewpoint of an Empire State Building night guard Casting the terminally ill as stuntpeople in Chuck Norris movies
GROUPS OFFENDED Women drivers Republicans, rednecks, fundamentalists
SAMPLE RISQUE TOPIC A nude police lineup "I love pornography."
NUMBER OF EXPLETIVES 0 108
IS IT FUNNY? Hysterical Hysterical

Reprinted from STEREO REVIEW, July 1997.

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