Posted because this seems to almost entirely ignore what Bill Hicks was actually on about (e.g. saying he punches down on Iraqis when that sketch was actually making a point about the US employing its military might against smaller states) aside from the author's admission that "Hicks seems to me more self-conscious, and more concerned with social justice [than the comics credit him for]". Also celebrates sanitised, uncritical comedy that doesn't provoke the audience or touch difficult subjects like capitalism, but, y'know, Bill Hicks was "like mansplaining from start to finish. And we’re a bit bored nowadays of that".