Political anger, religious scepticism and contempt for advertising define the published comedy of Bill Hicks. Love All the People gathers letters, lyrics, transcripts and routines, including material about the Gulf War, drugs, censorship and the American entertainment industry. The humour is confrontational and frequently profane, moving from absurd impressions to long moral or political arguments without trying to sound neutral. Hicks’s work is best read as performance writing preserved on the page rather than as polished essay collections. The clearest marketplace links are stand-up comedy, countercultural satire, political humour and free-speech writing, especially for readers interested in the more polemical side of late twentieth-century comedy. Read more Less
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