Why do people think that just because a comedian is cynical that he is intelligent or insightful?
Hicks was a legend. If it wasn't for him, the atheist movement wouldn't be where it is today.
>>76415478
>atheist movement
>cause of uprising of Marxism and decline of Western civilization
Pick both.
>>76414551
Because humorous cynicism falls naturally into the sweet spot of being intelligent enough to make smarmy and somewhat insightful remarks that the majority of the population can almost grasp as well as you do, but not actually so much that you are capable of providing a realistic alternative or solution to the topic at hand.
So they keep making these smart-ass digs and the people keep sucking up the cheap laughs and worshiping their providers (Bantz magic) without actually solving any of these problems.
>>76416289
comedians never pretend to have solutions
they simply make observations
the intelligence part comes from how they link topics together or the way they can simplify there point
Colin Quinn is still the GOAT, more so than ever
>>76415478
Hicks' atheism is his worst aspect, but trust a fucking robotic Scandi to think it's his best. That guy was brought up by bible thumping parents who provided for him even when he was a bum ass nobody comic playing shit holes in random American podunks and so much of his material is "droogs man hehe lol" and "ahahaha FUCK the religious and their religions!!!!!!! btw i wouldn't be able to do this if my religious parents weren't paying my rent"
Hicks' parents were what made him who he was and he was a spoiled fucking kid all the way into his 30s. I like him, but sorry, his atheism/nihilism/commie bullshit was fucking whack.
>>76417426
it's a good thing he got off the ride when he did cause I don't think he could handle growing up
Hicks was an insufferable cunt.
Carlin is better because he's actually funny, but he's wrong on several points.
>>76417946
Hicks was the comic embodiment of 90's counter culture and did his part to quash PC culture then. He's cameos in the Preacher comic as influencing Jesse Custer
I think Richard Jeni was a mainstream version of Hicks
>>76416289
Nigga, how you sound so smart?
>>76417946
Hicks, and Carlin each had a sweet spot. If they strayed from that spot, Carlin became an insufferable angry guy, pissed at the general behavior of men based on his own Father abandoning him and his Mom, and Hicks when he attempted higher brow observational humor because he had a general disdain for his audience.
>>76419059
I think they both had a general disdain for humanity and were angry that they too were members of it
but yeah, Hicks hated his audiences
>>76414551
https://youtu.be/zeMZGGQ0ERk
>>76414551
Because the kids that watch these edgy comedians are also cynical assholes.
Because Americans are retarded
They just align with leftist politics so leftists laugh. I forget the term for this type of comedy - Margaret Cho is famous for it.
they say what everyone is le thinking xDDDD
>>76414551
Intelligence and cynicism are correlated. Smarter people have a better ability to see the forest for the trees and some will have a tendency to lean towards a cynical outlook. There is a lot of truth to the phrase "Ignorance is bliss".
>>76415478
>le gook posting finn
kill yourself
>>76414551
carlin
>liberal cunt
>had original voice
>angry but still overall funny
hicks
>cheap carlin knockoff
>exact same voice and delivery as carlin
>totally overrated
>if he hadnt died prematurely nobody on this site would even know his name
>>76414551
If you dont like them, you dont have to listen to them.
Pretty simple, if you think about it.
>if you think
They both would have been vehemently opposed to today's 'liberalism' and PC hysteria.
