People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn’t share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn’t have, seeing as it’s being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
BILL HICKS
I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, ‘My dad can beat up your dad.’ I’d say ‘Yeah? When?’
![Bill Hicks Quote - [Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is…thinking, ‘This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.’](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/comedy-is-an-escape-from-illusions-the-audience-is.jpg)
![Bill Hicks Quote - You ever seen somebody do that? I’ve seen someone do that. Let me tell you something – if you’re smoking out of a hole in your neck [mimics it again] I’d think about quitting. And that’s just me, ya know.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/you-ever-seen-somebody-do-that-ive-seen-someone-do.jpg)
![Bill Hicks Quote - I got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin’ [puts mic to his neck and speaks as if he had a mechanical larynx] ‘good evening everybody, remember me, smoking’s bad. [puts cigarette to neck and mimics smoking it] Eeww.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/i-got-this-big-fear-of-doing-smoking-jokes-in-my-a.jpg)
