Outlaw Comic: The Censoring Of Bill Hicks documentary-77mins

A biographical documentary on the late great comedian Bill Hicks and his career; in particular the censorship by Letterman that scarred it.

Part Two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK66jzIvynM
Part Three http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgK4BaBnIBU
Part Four http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Yp1lD4Ohg
Part Five http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFRHyRmZ8c0
Part Six http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFoswQiXhwU
Part Seven http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptKLZlhz2SI
benjeesays...

I was going to save this for tomorrow, but as my last Bill Hicks Sift's doing so well - here's a biographical documentary of him:

A rare insight into the battle against censorship that the great Bill Hicks waged against corporate America and it's mainstream media for the better part of 15 years.

Hosted by Janeane Garofalo, it documents Bill's transition from a non-drinking, non- smoking, straight laced funny man, to a hard drinking, hard smoking, drug taking angry ranter, to the happy and finally, peaceful and insightful man of much wisdom.

After 11 successful appearances on The Tonight Show with David Lettermen, the 'powers that be' axed Bill's final performance from the show.

4 months later, Bill would tragically die from prostate cancer at the age of 32.
The Google poster got that wrong, he actually died of Pancreatic cancer.

benjeesays...

No Darksun, it's not in violation - as discussed back in Rule 4 Definition SiftTalk:

One-off TV specials are okay, as are films that as far as we know, are clean for sharing on the net (up to our providers to police the other legal issues).
This is a one-off special (unfortunately, with a couple ad breaks left in) - plus I believe documentaries are exempt from Rule 4 (as the abundance of science, politics or religious ones show).

gwiz665says...

More people need to see this. A great documentary, in my opinion the last part is the best. The letterman censorship is quite typical even steroetypical of american television. If I was priviledged I would *promote this.

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