Bill Hicks

Possible project is still "a gleam in the eye" of RC

Bill Hicks

Art Work from the cover of "Another Dead Hero"

In April 1993, while touring in Australia, he started complaining of pains in his side, and on June 16 of that year, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He started receiving weekly chemotherapy, while still touring and also recording his album, Arizona Bay, with Kevin Booth. He was also working with comedian Fallon Woodland on a pilot episode of a new talk show, titled Counts of the Netherworld for Channel 4 at the time of his death. The budget and concept had been approved, and a pilot was filmed. The Counts of the Netherworld pilot was shown at the various Tenth Anniversary Tribute Night events around the world on February 26, 2004. - Hicks played the final show of his career at Caroline's in New York on January 6, 1994. He moved back to his parents' house in Little Rock, Arkansas shortly thereafter. He called his friends to say goodbye before he stopped speaking on February 14, and died in the presence of his parents at 11:20 p.m. on February 26, 1994. Hicks was buried on the family plot in Leakesville, Mississippi. - Info from Wikipedia

Links:

John Lahr - Light Fantastic

Bill Hicks Page at Wikipedia

NEWS

Russell Crowe to Play Bill Hicks? - from Cinematical -- Also in New York Magazine (with comparison pictures) and everywhere else

Lots of Bill Hicks routines on You Tube

Watch Counts of the Netherworld pilot