(October 2, 2008 at 12:52 am)solidsquid Wrote: Much of Carlin's work surround similar themes which he has used long before anyone knew who Bill Hicks was. Carlin was influenced in the late 60's by Lenny Bruce and eventually it showed up in his own routines and life.
The Carlin clips are mostly from his later appearences and contains content that is not new at that time, much of it is stuff that he talked about many, many years before. After years of listening to Carlin I would be more inclined that Hicks was influenced by Carlin than the other way around. I remember the Rice Crispies and abortion jokes going back to his early 80's work.
This isn't to take away from Bill Hicks though, I think Hicks had some great stuff as well.
However, it could just be the old cliche' that great minds think alike.
Good post.
