This is hilarious but also clearly written before the 90's. It's as tough here but because we're not retarded we did not legalize guns and make them so easy to get that normal 15 year delinquents become lethal killers. If it wasn't for legal guns the US would be safer.
Yes Bill. Take ONE article out of ONE newspaper that mentions the word hooligans. Then go on about how silly we are for having a supposed lower crime rate. Anything for a cheap laugh...... !
Yes Bill. Take ONE article out of ONE newspaper that mentions the word hooligans. Then go on about how silly we are for having a supposed lower crime rate. Anything for a cheap laugh...... !
Yes Bill. Take ONE article out of ONE newspaper that mentions the word hooligans. Then go on about how silly we are for having a supposed lower crime rate. Anything for a cheap laugh...... !
Let me clarify - Im British, bill hicks wouldn't come to the conclusion that the British don't have murders, rapes etc.. In America its legal to carry a weapon, all cops carry weapons this means that there's a far greater opportunity to commit these crimes because of the accessibility of guns! He was trivializing the British crime rate through the use of "Jokes!" as hes a "Comedian" the UK is far more safer than the USA! You Shouldn't Be Pissed Off Its A Good Thing!......
Well if thats all you Yanks can come up with no fucking wonder you were beaten by a panel of CHIMPS on a QUIZ show....now thats FUNNY LOL LOL LOL OLO LOL OLO LOL OLO LOL LOL OL OL OL OL O LO
@swordhunter12 No we don't have a higher crime than the US! This is wish thinking for morons who think a higher crime rate makes for a more exciting country. Yeah right, unless you happen to be on the receiving end of it!
@stpb123ify FYI I don't think a higher crime rate makes for a more exciting country if that's what you were implying. I think having a higher crime rate sucks and as such my comment was actually taking umbrage with Hicks' claims. As for who's crime rate is higher I've heard several claims that violent crime in the UK is overall higher than that of America's
@swordhunter12 I wasn't directing it at you; I was directing it more at the cretins in my country who continue to convince themselves and others that this is the case.I've lived in America and while i was not a victim of crime, I watched the news and could tell that American cities had far more murders than UK cities and that overall parts of US cities were far more dangerous.and crime ridden then our own. These outlandish claims come from wanna be gangsters.
It is not big or clever to try and be hard by association. No one cares whether your country or city is rougher or has more crime than somewhere else. Any idiot can kill with a knife or a gun. Faced with that situation every single person posting here would fucking brick it. That being said, the picture painted here is false. I'm sure if Mr Hicks had actually run into some footie fans in the 80s, his outlook would have been very different.
This is the only time i've heard something from Bill Hicks that i haven't liked. He talks about front page news in england and surely back then that would have been football hooliganism. But tbh in my opinion back then football violence was not that bad a thing as not many innocent people got caught up as it was just for a laugh back then where as these days quite often you get 15 year olds thinking their on the set of green street hitting someone cos they've got a different teams shirt on.
@millwalllboy9 I think your memory must be clouded. Hooliganism was dreadful and caught many innocent people up through 70's-early 90's - the firm's fights were pre-ordained (Bushwackers vs ICF). Milwall was one of the worst offenders. If you supported football there were some places/pubs u dare not go. It was known as the 'English Disease' abroad and caused deaths, injuries and in some cases riots. There's no doubt it is much better now than is used to be.
@Kiki53754 I know it was a very bad problem back then but what i meant was that back then people didn't go out looking to stab an innocent person. Most people were out to have a laugh, watch the football and maybe have a punch up. These days whenever there's a major incident at football it usually results in an innocent person getting beaten up or worse. In 2009 a Millwall fan was stabbed in front of his 2 sons by west ham fans.
When this was recorded crime in england was nothing compared to crime in america but these days there's not much difference other than the gun crime. Mainly because of all these chavs running about looting and the fact a lot of young people don't have any respect. 3 weeks ago a friend of mine had a knife pulled out on him just because some little scum bag wanted his phone. Back in the 80's that would be something rare but unfortunately these days its quite common.
Well irish drug lords, beheaded 4 people in dublin the other week. However because that would be to shocking to find out on the streets(as dublin is a very tense place between certain religious and political groups it could end up being blamed on terrorists etc) USA only have bad crime because of Gun legalisation and mexicans drug lord peeps.
To the people saying Bill Hicks was ignorant about the UK, the performed her any times and was massive here before anyone in the US took any notice real of him, he used to sell out arenas here like the big names of UK comedy do now. He actually considered moving to the UK and recorded a pilot for a chat chow for channel 4 (A major UK TV channel for those who dont know)
As an Brit I can say, at the time this was recorded British crime was nothing compared to american crime, but today.... We would be happy to have the dutsbin tippers back. I think the London/national riots say it all really.
I'm from the UK and like most people here, can laugh at myself. This is hilarious. Crime is definitely horrible here, but it sounds like it is a lot worse in the USA. Plus Bill is just taking the piss. Everyone should stop being so defensive...
As Bill says, with a tongue firmly in cheek... "Speak English!"
I've been to Shaftesbury and it is a warzone sir! Dustbins and O.A.P's run those streets. Its a bloodbath of broken zimmerframes and burnt out plastic recycling bins every damn night.
bill must have missed the bullitin about hoolagans when on a saturday you would see 6000 -7000 hoolagans role out of football terreces and leave towns in tatters
the crimes are a bit more severe than that in the UK- theres murders, rape, riots, robbery and no areas are "safe" anymore. Murders, thefts and attacks have happened down the street from me even in the countryside. You don;t have to be in the main city to witness any crime.
I think it's hilarious how everybody rushes to say how shitty where they live is. It's like a friggin' competition, like you want to live in a craphole.
LOL maybe if you just visited South kensington or a very upmarket part of london you would think that it is a cosy little island, but just see the rest of the city, let alone the rest of the u.k, and you will see that its not the case. Every western nation and big city has problems like crime deprivation. Still much love goes to bill hicks.
For those of us out in countryside it is virtually crime free; other than a few thefts of farm equipment, Ha ha ha! I can so relate to Bill Hicks, he's spot on with his observation.
Hmmm... I dunno when this was from but there obviously is crime all over the country but in certain areas. FUCK ME. You don't even wanna go there get alone live there
People comparing need to keep in mind that although we do have some pretty fucked places we aren't on the same wavelength as the americans over there they sell guns over the counter. On the most part i'd say people who claim it's really here bad are the same that surrender into news headlines to easily, crime just follows poverty and poverty is caused by banks and governments.
Yeah, the UK has some medieval crime on the streets. A bunch of LA gang-banging floppylip rappers wouldn't last two minutes at a hooligan riddled football match (soccer to you Americans LOL). Love Bill, he's crazy funny!
America was formed by English puritans that wanted to form a society that was free of the corruption and debauchery, but I agree that American crime is worse. I'm pretty sure that Bill understood this, but nevertheless, this routine is fucking brilliant. You don't have to take apart everything when the thing you're critiquing is comedy :L. It's a joke. So laugh, or just go and watch some actual political commentators and argue with those crazies. Leave this alone.
@joshuasheward Free off corruption and debauchery but willing to exterminate natives. I dont think Bill's primary motive was to be a clown he actually incites perspective thikning which opens room for discussion. Bill is more conscience than comedian.
Bill Hicks was exaggerating for effect-- THAT is his trade. He also made it a point to explain that UK crime is not a patch on US crime -which is a fact ''I am sure it's a serious thing(re hooligans)'' you all need to 'stop your internal dialogue' ''hooligans V The Bloods'' etc...
Sub-human scum in Britain, no idea of the term 'morality', craving for destruction and feeding off of suffering. And our government does almost bugger all to help.
@WiiStation360Games I thought you were talking 'about' our UK government there for a second LOL. No morals, feeding off suffering, craving destruction...yep....thats parliament alright. Bunch of cnuts.
I don't know why I bother talking to people who open up with 'dick' and 'retard' as a way of emphasising the fact that they have a small penis. Surprised that such people are actually BH fans at all.
If I could choose anywhere to die, it'd be that drizzle dreary island with it's pasty rainstained populace, one look at them and u realize 'the transition from live to death would not be noticeable. But while I'm alive soooooooo glad I left for NY city. All together now USA USA - repeat until hilly billy (of english sheep shagging stock) jumps on stage.
BH was a very very funny and clever man, but was off-beam about some things. There are plently of very very nasty people in the UK with knives, guns & there is organised crime a-plenty. Spend time in the wrong areas and there are some pretty grotty places you don't want to visit then you can guarantee you will find trouble. The UK was not the comparitively cosy, safe place it seems when you just visit the nice parts, even in the 90s.
@dutchgoing Hey retard, he was well aware that there was plenty of crime in the UK at that time, this was just some light humour in his act, he was not 'off-beam'; this is comedy.
I also cannot fathom how you are somehow offended that the rest of the world perceives the UK as a reasonably safe country compared to the US as if that is somehow an insult to your people.
@PrivateJoker17 That's why I said the 'view portrayed'. That's twice you have failed to comprehend what someone has written. I suggest you improve your reading skills and general intelligence.
@PrivateJoker17 Yes I am aware of the irony he was using. I'm not offended and I'm not a retard thanks. The presumption that the UK is a very very safe place compared to the USA is probably correct but people from the USA do get it ever so slightly 'wrong' in a way I could only discuss with somebody from the UK. Hicks doesn't quite understand UK culture and neither do you seeing as you live 10K miles away in Australia, do you still need a conviction to live there btw?
@dutchgoing I was quite happy with your response until that final question; let me answer that in detail, first I live in a state that had no convict settlement, second the convicts sent to Australia made up less than five percent of the population at the time, third, Australia was settled by free settlers not convicts, fourth, the convicts sent here were not procreating whatsoever as they were in prison, fifth, most were political prisoners, lastly, my family is from England.
@PrivateJoker17 I said that BH had the emphasis a little wrong. It seems I'm not allowed to pull your leg a bit though. Aus does have the British to blame for most of Aus history I suppose. Sheer deluded revisionist fantasy that the convicts never ever procreated. You should be very proud of people who were wrongly transported for very trivial and unjust offences & took part in building a new country. Very negative that you should deny their contribution like that. I am very surprised by that.
@dutchgoing Stop being a dick dude, I'm sorry if I in some way offended you and now you feel the need to turn it back on me, research some Australian history; also, I'm not proud to be an Australian because I think nationalism is fucking stupid, I do however love this country.
@dutchgoing I think compared to the USA in the 90's he had a point, definately not true now though. And I didn't live in the 90's so maybe I'm talking out of turn.
@destroysubgenres If you get mugged or murdered in the US or UK, it's still a mugging or a murder. A student from India was shot in the head for no reason at Xmas in Manchester, the guy who did it gave his name as 'Psycho' in court. This set is irksome because most visitors might just see the centre of London which is very safe and not the inner city. Hicks has us at one another's throats about who has the worst crime. The description of the UK as a cosy little island is for what purpose?
@dutchgoing I live in the U.K, but the U.S is a bigger country, I know crimes bad here now but I was just suggesting in my ignorance that maybe it wasn't as bad when Bill said this. Peace.
@dutchgoing And with that all taken into account it still isn't comparable to the states the gun problem in the UK is grossly over exaggerated I say this as someone who lives in one of them grotty areas as you put it. Knifes yes, guns not so much. Organised Crime - Thats the local dealer who specialises in cannabis not crystal meth he's not working for the bloody mafia
@keaney123321 All very true! I just think his choice of subject matter was odd really. Using the ignorance of his American audience to get laughs is peculiar for him when most of his comedy was about insight or exposing the banality of things which most people accept as normal. The fact is that the UK is not the quaint little island that most foreigners think it is. I don't see where the comedic device is in this set.
@dutchgoing americans think this is funny because we enjoy the english sterotypes. we are aware the uk is far different from such stereotypes but the idea of it itself is comical.
@howtokillawerewolf Ok but it kind of reinforces the notion that the rest of the world has of Americans being rather ignorant of the world outside of the USA. Be aware that the media has served up these stereotypes to you over and over, they are not actually part of any culture. Men like Hugh Grant do exist in the UK but they are just one type of person out of many types. BH shot wide with this set and reinforcing preconceptions wasn't usually his thing.
@dutchgoing "Ok but it kind of reinforces the notion that the rest of the world has of Americans being rather ignorant of the world outside of the USA" thats the same thing isnt it. obviously we arent all like what the world views us as...there are a wide variety of people here, all nationalities and races. we are not all fat, stupid, redneck warmongers...but people enjoy the comedy that comes from that notion. i enjoy comedy so the stereotypes dont bother me, just as it shouldnt bother you.
@howtokillawerewolf A very noticeable %age of people in the USA are very poorly educated about the outside world, just as very many people in the UK think that our tiny country is a place that the rest of the world pays much attention to, we are not Europeans but at the same time we are at the centre of things & not broke like some of our neighbours. Sheer delusion. I don't even recognise ther stereotypes BH represents here which is why it is a pretty bad comedy set.
@dutchgoing i must be a shining example of my country then, as i am quite worldly. i have met and conversed with people from the nordic areas, north and south ireland, scotland, poland and even some strongly sterotypical slags from london herself. and i will say that those from within london i met and partied with for more than a week...did not share the opinion of themselves you just mentioned. but as i said, theres all types there, as there are here. anyway, Hicks was, well... Hicks.
@howtokillawerewolf Ah yes you must have travelled if you know the context in which to use the world 'slaaaaag!!!'. I salute you sir, yes I do. We have a small island complex in the UK as I have described.
Football hooligans to be entirely honest, no guns of course, would completely fuck up the Bloods. All they do is beat the ever loving shit out of each other.
@thespread Man of the people, here. He speaks for us all. He knows everything about us, and knows the very deepest secrets of out hearts. He is a genius, and an expert in all forms of comedy, including the entire history of comedy. He knows what good comedy is. We should all listen to this man...
@douchiemcfagballs OH MY GO I SAID SOMETHING THAT GOES AGAINST THE GRAIN YOU GUYS HAD BETTER FUCKING CRUCIFY ME.
I love Bill, but this is not him at his best. The irony is, you're a schmuck unwilling to consider things from a different angle. If Bill Hicks were alive, he'd probably find you a loathsome small-minded little prick with a very apt username and call you out for being the spineless shit-swallowing jackass that you surely are. Peace.
@thespread "unwilling to consider things for a different angle". Considering comedy is a subjective media, your entire reply makes you look like an idiot. There is no good or bad comedy, because everyone likes different things. If you think it's bad, someone else might think it's the funniest thing ever. Neither is right or wrong, it's down to that person's sense of humour. The true irony is, if anyone is small-minded here, it's you. Also, Ad Hominem is never a good choice.
@douchiemcfagballs So many things wrong with your post, it's beyond the character limit to rebuke them all. I do find it funny that you take issue with the ad hominem attack though, since the ENTIRETY of your initial comment was in itself an ad hominem attack against me. Re-read it, then bask in the irony.
@thespread "the ENTIRETY of your initial comment was in itself an ad hominem attack against me" That was the joke, well done for catching it. I don't really understand how there were so many points wrong it goes beyond the character limit. There was 2 points. One point say that comedy was subjective, and the other was the ad hominem "point", which was a joke. It just seems like you can't refute my first point so you decided to go to argue the obviously wrong one. Well done. You're the best.
Some places in Britain are admittedly scary, like anywhere, but it's not near the same level as America. You could walk through Moss Side in Manchester without so much as a second look, but walking through the projects in New York might be the last time anyone sees you alive. In the UK you can pretty much visit any countryside and be safe, but in America... well you've seen Deliverance right??
As an Englishman, I wish this was true. Sadly though, it isn't. England, like the rest of the UK, is pretty much fucked beyond all recognition these days.
@RedDwarffs It's not all like that, organised crime is rife in the UK. The quotes you have just said are the product of typical chavy cunts with no sense whatsoever.
@RedDwarffs No thats called petty crime, its in america as we'll. Organised crime is much larger in England like in america. CRIME IS PATHETIC IN THE WORLD IN GENERAL. Not England.
He was a comedien! Thats what they do! Im proud of being English but i dont see how taking the piss out of crime in England was insulting to the Ennglish? He took the piss out of everyone.
Hahaha people from England are freaking out. He is talking about all the posh areas. Im From Liverpool (Its in england), crime is pretty rough and sometimes really bad. In fact they even have special type of police called the Matrix to target gangs and drugs dealers and what not. Yes Bill probably didn't visit the roughest parts of England but lets at least laugh at Bill taking the piss out of the rich posh dick heads :) Thanks Bill, Love ya!
I don't care about people bickering who has a tougher country. But if you look at the latest riots in the UK I think its quite clear there is a crime issue.
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@ianwilson2007 What the fuck?! You're apparently 43 and you're still having a prick waving competition about how 'hard' parts of England are. I thought you were some little 18 year old nonce judging by your comment. Get a fucking grip and grow up you pathetic clown. No wonder England is full of fucking assholes.
@bell191991 it's not that we have low crime rates, it's the kind of crimes that are committed. We might have isolated muggings and murders, but we'll never have anything close to America's level of gun violence and gang culture.
Usually a very informed man, dont find this funny in the slightest since my mum and uncle were savagely attacked by football hooligans with stanley knives in the 90s
Bill Hicks was a genius because he could make anything funny. Some people seem to be taking him a bit too literally here. He's just making people laugh he's not saying it that literally.
This is the best example of taking the piss out of your own country, by apparently mocking someone elses, that I've ever seen. I wonder how many of the audience were laughing about the English and how many were laughing about themselves though...interesting.
@echobears Youmadbro? A wannabe intellectual. I wasn't berating the comedian I was pointing out an inconsistency.
I also see you like to abuse people. Is it because you are physically located 'out of reach'? That makes you a coward in my book, and probably Bill's book too. Kill yourself; hypocrite.
@LemonPieLoL i think bill was refering to crime in quantity, in LA. Everything from race wars, mexican mafia, mexican gangs, korean gangs. I think he just pointed the bloods and crips as an example.There just seems to be more of it and more room for it.
@thistleplace999 That is just arrogance at it's worst. Like every country we have our problems with crime. Like every country there are horrific murders on a regular basis. Like any country we have poverty. Like any country we have organised crime. You country might be bigger, have more people, but the crimes in any country are just as gruesome. It wasn't too long ago where a man in Glasgow was hacked into hundreds of pieces with a butcher's knife - now tell me that isn't horrific.
@LemonPieLoL He has been to the UK and felt that he really found his audience over there. But I agree there are some really bad parts over there as there is everywhere.
i have no doubt that if americans came up against english football hooligans they would run.....just like every other country has.....thier world famous.....apart from america
Bill was no dope he knows he is taking the piss out of an old hometown yankee imaginary view of England. 11 Hour flight his hometown was burning to the ground. H reads a stupid article about a dustbin lol.
Everywhere in the world seemed safe simple and ridiculous after the London riots.
When he does an English accent he sounds a bit like Mick Jagger lol
BUSHIDOWAY82 1 day ago
balaux try london,birmingham or bristol if the uk was the size of america crime would be triple to that fact!
astronomical888 3 days ago
@astronomical888 - got the stats to back that statement up? - didn't think so!
shumble32 1 day ago
This is hilarious but also clearly written before the 90's. It's as tough here but because we're not retarded we did not legalize guns and make them so easy to get that normal 15 year delinquents become lethal killers. If it wasn't for legal guns the US would be safer.
Still bloody hilarious though :)
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Yes Bill. Take ONE article out of ONE newspaper that mentions the word hooligans. Then go on about how silly we are for having a supposed lower crime rate. Anything for a cheap laugh...... !
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Yes Bill. Take ONE article out of ONE newspaper that mentions the word hooligans. Then go on about how silly we are for having a supposed lower crime rate. Anything for a cheap laugh...... !
theredjediknight 5 days ago
Yes Bill. Take ONE article out of ONE newspaper that mentions the word hooligans. Then go on about how silly we are for having a supposed lower crime rate. Anything for a cheap laugh...... !
theredjediknight 5 days ago
Yes, RIP England!
aei05h1 5 days ago
Let me clarify - Im British, bill hicks wouldn't come to the conclusion that the British don't have murders, rapes etc.. In America its legal to carry a weapon, all cops carry weapons this means that there's a far greater opportunity to commit these crimes because of the accessibility of guns! He was trivializing the British crime rate through the use of "Jokes!" as hes a "Comedian" the UK is far more safer than the USA! You Shouldn't Be Pissed Off Its A Good Thing!......
TheInconvenientTooth 5 days ago 2
Well if thats all you Yanks can come up with no fucking wonder you were beaten by a panel of CHIMPS on a QUIZ show....now thats FUNNY LOL LOL LOL OLO LOL OLO LOL OLO LOL LOL OL OL OL OL O LO
gotmihandstuck 5 days ago
verwood was on the top 10 list of dont go on halloween 4 riot cars 2 armed police 3 normal cops 2 ambulances and 4 paramedics that was just 1 night
MrHunterdoon 1 week ago
Okay America...We'll let you have THIS one.
lankinator24 1 week ago
HA HA HA! It's funny because we actually have a HIGHER crime rate in England ha ha ha!
swordhunter12 1 week ago 2
@swordhunter12 No we don't have a higher crime than the US! This is wish thinking for morons who think a higher crime rate makes for a more exciting country. Yeah right, unless you happen to be on the receiving end of it!
stpb123ify 1 week ago
@stpb123ify FYI I don't think a higher crime rate makes for a more exciting country if that's what you were implying. I think having a higher crime rate sucks and as such my comment was actually taking umbrage with Hicks' claims. As for who's crime rate is higher I've heard several claims that violent crime in the UK is overall higher than that of America's
swordhunter12 1 week ago
@swordhunter12 I wasn't directing it at you; I was directing it more at the cretins in my country who continue to convince themselves and others that this is the case.I've lived in America and while i was not a victim of crime, I watched the news and could tell that American cities had far more murders than UK cities and that overall parts of US cities were far more dangerous.and crime ridden then our own. These outlandish claims come from wanna be gangsters.
stpb123ify 1 week ago
what a douche
jonwhyte92 1 week ago
It is not big or clever to try and be hard by association. No one cares whether your country or city is rougher or has more crime than somewhere else. Any idiot can kill with a knife or a gun. Faced with that situation every single person posting here would fucking brick it. That being said, the picture painted here is false. I'm sure if Mr Hicks had actually run into some footie fans in the 80s, his outlook would have been very different.
mp9828 2 weeks ago
This is the only time i've heard something from Bill Hicks that i haven't liked. He talks about front page news in england and surely back then that would have been football hooliganism. But tbh in my opinion back then football violence was not that bad a thing as not many innocent people got caught up as it was just for a laugh back then where as these days quite often you get 15 year olds thinking their on the set of green street hitting someone cos they've got a different teams shirt on.
millwalllboy9 2 weeks ago
@millwalllboy9 I think your memory must be clouded. Hooliganism was dreadful and caught many innocent people up through 70's-early 90's - the firm's fights were pre-ordained (Bushwackers vs ICF). Milwall was one of the worst offenders. If you supported football there were some places/pubs u dare not go. It was known as the 'English Disease' abroad and caused deaths, injuries and in some cases riots. There's no doubt it is much better now than is used to be.
Kiki53754 2 weeks ago
@Kiki53754 I know it was a very bad problem back then but what i meant was that back then people didn't go out looking to stab an innocent person. Most people were out to have a laugh, watch the football and maybe have a punch up. These days whenever there's a major incident at football it usually results in an innocent person getting beaten up or worse. In 2009 a Millwall fan was stabbed in front of his 2 sons by west ham fans.
millwalllboy9 2 weeks ago
When this was recorded crime in england was nothing compared to crime in america but these days there's not much difference other than the gun crime. Mainly because of all these chavs running about looting and the fact a lot of young people don't have any respect. 3 weeks ago a friend of mine had a knife pulled out on him just because some little scum bag wanted his phone. Back in the 80's that would be something rare but unfortunately these days its quite common.
millwalllboy9 2 weeks ago
Well irish drug lords, beheaded 4 people in dublin the other week. However because that would be to shocking to find out on the streets(as dublin is a very tense place between certain religious and political groups it could end up being blamed on terrorists etc) USA only have bad crime because of Gun legalisation and mexicans drug lord peeps.
BenFosterism 2 weeks ago
should civillians cary firearms?
andrewlewis963 2 weeks ago
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TheT33g 2 weeks ago
To the people saying Bill Hicks was ignorant about the UK, the performed her any times and was massive here before anyone in the US took any notice real of him, he used to sell out arenas here like the big names of UK comedy do now. He actually considered moving to the UK and recorded a pilot for a chat chow for channel 4 (A major UK TV channel for those who dont know)
simond10 2 weeks ago
As an Brit I can say, at the time this was recorded British crime was nothing compared to american crime, but today.... We would be happy to have the dutsbin tippers back. I think the London/national riots say it all really.
simond10 2 weeks ago
im english and pretty much find everything he says funny
boselectfuk 2 weeks ago
I'm from the UK and like most people here, can laugh at myself. This is hilarious. Crime is definitely horrible here, but it sounds like it is a lot worse in the USA. Plus Bill is just taking the piss. Everyone should stop being so defensive...
As Bill says, with a tongue firmly in cheek... "Speak English!"
freekicking85 3 weeks ago
I've been to Shaftesbury and it is a warzone sir! Dustbins and O.A.P's run those streets. Its a bloodbath of broken zimmerframes and burnt out plastic recycling bins every damn night.
HarrisonRocks 3 weeks ago 13
@HarrisonRocks Shaftsbury is hell for the binmen. And all those hooligans!
VinnyMonster1 1 week ago
lol love to see the bloods against the football rioters in the 80's
sirbestnameever 3 weeks ago 3
bill must have missed the bullitin about hoolagans when on a saturday you would see 6000 -7000 hoolagans role out of football terreces and leave towns in tatters
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the crimes are a bit more severe than that in the UK- theres murders, rape, riots, robbery and no areas are "safe" anymore. Murders, thefts and attacks have happened down the street from me even in the countryside. You don;t have to be in the main city to witness any crime.
chocoholicSISTA263 1 month ago
I live in Neverland and it's a fucking hell.
oliverecords 1 month ago
I think it's hilarious how everybody rushes to say how shitty where they live is. It's like a friggin' competition, like you want to live in a craphole.
KnowingDasEin 1 month ago 18
LOL maybe if you just visited South kensington or a very upmarket part of london you would think that it is a cosy little island, but just see the rest of the city, let alone the rest of the u.k, and you will see that its not the case. Every western nation and big city has problems like crime deprivation. Still much love goes to bill hicks.
182fooz 1 month ago
For those of us out in countryside it is virtually crime free; other than a few thefts of farm equipment, Ha ha ha! I can so relate to Bill Hicks, he's spot on with his observation.
CarpeDiem8180 1 month ago
Think he got his classes mixed up a little here ;p
rob92rs 1 month ago
Hmmm... I dunno when this was from but there obviously is crime all over the country but in certain areas. FUCK ME. You don't even wanna go there get alone live there
MCcumstain 1 month ago
People comparing need to keep in mind that although we do have some pretty fucked places we aren't on the same wavelength as the americans over there they sell guns over the counter. On the most part i'd say people who claim it's really here bad are the same that surrender into news headlines to easily, crime just follows poverty and poverty is caused by banks and governments.
bossmanali 1 month ago
Yeah, the UK has some medieval crime on the streets. A bunch of LA gang-banging floppylip rappers wouldn't last two minutes at a hooligan riddled football match (soccer to you Americans LOL). Love Bill, he's crazy funny!
British101Bulldog 1 month ago
America was formed by English puritans that wanted to form a society that was free of the corruption and debauchery, but I agree that American crime is worse. I'm pretty sure that Bill understood this, but nevertheless, this routine is fucking brilliant. You don't have to take apart everything when the thing you're critiquing is comedy :L. It's a joke. So laugh, or just go and watch some actual political commentators and argue with those crazies. Leave this alone.
joshuasheward 1 month ago
@joshuasheward Free off corruption and debauchery but willing to exterminate natives. I dont think Bill's primary motive was to be a clown he actually incites perspective thikning which opens room for discussion. Bill is more conscience than comedian.
bossmanali 1 month ago
Looks like the Hooligans have become Ruffians now.
LongandGeneric 1 month ago
Bill Hicks was exaggerating for effect-- THAT is his trade. He also made it a point to explain that UK crime is not a patch on US crime -which is a fact ''I am sure it's a serious thing(re hooligans)'' you all need to 'stop your internal dialogue' ''hooligans V The Bloods'' etc...
Tommyfazz 1 month ago
Sub-human scum in Britain, no idea of the term 'morality', craving for destruction and feeding off of suffering. And our government does almost bugger all to help.
WiiStation360Games 1 month ago
@WiiStation360Games I thought you were talking 'about' our UK government there for a second LOL. No morals, feeding off suffering, craving destruction...yep....thats parliament alright. Bunch of cnuts.
British101Bulldog 1 month ago
I don't know why I bother talking to people who open up with 'dick' and 'retard' as a way of emphasising the fact that they have a small penis. Surprised that such people are actually BH fans at all.
dutchgoing 1 month ago
29 english people cant take a joke
Melkisedech 1 month ago
Adverts on a Bill Hicks video... ironic.
dykesy30 1 month ago
"It sounds stoopid dudnt it?" ... Riiiiiiight O_o
ShinEiyuu 1 month ago
it's when you put a cat in the bin, that's when it gets nasty British style
maxibus141 1 month ago
If I could choose anywhere to die, it'd be that drizzle dreary island with it's pasty rainstained populace, one look at them and u realize 'the transition from live to death would not be noticeable. But while I'm alive soooooooo glad I left for NY city. All together now USA USA - repeat until hilly billy (of english sheep shagging stock) jumps on stage.
PAKposse 1 month ago
BH was a very very funny and clever man, but was off-beam about some things. There are plently of very very nasty people in the UK with knives, guns & there is organised crime a-plenty. Spend time in the wrong areas and there are some pretty grotty places you don't want to visit then you can guarantee you will find trouble. The UK was not the comparitively cosy, safe place it seems when you just visit the nice parts, even in the 90s.
dutchgoing 2 months ago 26
@dutchgoing Brixton has been under Section 30 for 6 months, giving police power to disperse & curfew after 9pm young people 'likely to cause alarm'.
Most people simply have no idea what goes on in this country.
historypoliticsbb 1 month ago
@dutchgoing Hey retard, he was well aware that there was plenty of crime in the UK at that time, this was just some light humour in his act, he was not 'off-beam'; this is comedy.
I also cannot fathom how you are somehow offended that the rest of the world perceives the UK as a reasonably safe country compared to the US as if that is somehow an insult to your people.
PrivateJoker17 1 month ago
@PrivateJoker17 Yo retard, why do you think he was offended? Sounds like he just disagrees with the view portrayed in this bit.
bollwoven 1 month ago
@bollwoven I already explained why this was not in fact Bill's view.
PrivateJoker17 1 month ago
@PrivateJoker17 That's why I said the 'view portrayed'. That's twice you have failed to comprehend what someone has written. I suggest you improve your reading skills and general intelligence.
bollwoven 1 month ago
@PrivateJoker17 Yes I am aware of the irony he was using. I'm not offended and I'm not a retard thanks. The presumption that the UK is a very very safe place compared to the USA is probably correct but people from the USA do get it ever so slightly 'wrong' in a way I could only discuss with somebody from the UK. Hicks doesn't quite understand UK culture and neither do you seeing as you live 10K miles away in Australia, do you still need a conviction to live there btw?
dutchgoing 1 month ago
@dutchgoing I was quite happy with your response until that final question; let me answer that in detail, first I live in a state that had no convict settlement, second the convicts sent to Australia made up less than five percent of the population at the time, third, Australia was settled by free settlers not convicts, fourth, the convicts sent here were not procreating whatsoever as they were in prison, fifth, most were political prisoners, lastly, my family is from England.
PrivateJoker17 1 month ago
@PrivateJoker17 I said that BH had the emphasis a little wrong. It seems I'm not allowed to pull your leg a bit though. Aus does have the British to blame for most of Aus history I suppose. Sheer deluded revisionist fantasy that the convicts never ever procreated. You should be very proud of people who were wrongly transported for very trivial and unjust offences & took part in building a new country. Very negative that you should deny their contribution like that. I am very surprised by that.
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@dutchgoing Stop being a dick dude, I'm sorry if I in some way offended you and now you feel the need to turn it back on me, research some Australian history; also, I'm not proud to be an Australian because I think nationalism is fucking stupid, I do however love this country.
PrivateJoker17 1 month ago
@dutchgoing I think compared to the USA in the 90's he had a point, definately not true now though. And I didn't live in the 90's so maybe I'm talking out of turn.
destroysubgenres 1 month ago
@destroysubgenres If you get mugged or murdered in the US or UK, it's still a mugging or a murder. A student from India was shot in the head for no reason at Xmas in Manchester, the guy who did it gave his name as 'Psycho' in court. This set is irksome because most visitors might just see the centre of London which is very safe and not the inner city. Hicks has us at one another's throats about who has the worst crime. The description of the UK as a cosy little island is for what purpose?
dutchgoing 1 month ago
@dutchgoing I live in the U.K, but the U.S is a bigger country, I know crimes bad here now but I was just suggesting in my ignorance that maybe it wasn't as bad when Bill said this. Peace.
destroysubgenres 1 month ago
@destroysubgenres Well yes that's true almost for sure. When you think about it there are large parts of the US which are really under-populated too.
dutchgoing 1 month ago
@dutchgoing And with that all taken into account it still isn't comparable to the states the gun problem in the UK is grossly over exaggerated I say this as someone who lives in one of them grotty areas as you put it. Knifes yes, guns not so much. Organised Crime - Thats the local dealer who specialises in cannabis not crystal meth he's not working for the bloody mafia
keaney123321 1 month ago
@keaney123321 All very true! I just think his choice of subject matter was odd really. Using the ignorance of his American audience to get laughs is peculiar for him when most of his comedy was about insight or exposing the banality of things which most people accept as normal. The fact is that the UK is not the quaint little island that most foreigners think it is. I don't see where the comedic device is in this set.
dutchgoing 1 month ago
@dutchgoing americans think this is funny because we enjoy the english sterotypes. we are aware the uk is far different from such stereotypes but the idea of it itself is comical.
howtokillawerewolf 1 month ago
@howtokillawerewolf Ok but it kind of reinforces the notion that the rest of the world has of Americans being rather ignorant of the world outside of the USA. Be aware that the media has served up these stereotypes to you over and over, they are not actually part of any culture. Men like Hugh Grant do exist in the UK but they are just one type of person out of many types. BH shot wide with this set and reinforcing preconceptions wasn't usually his thing.
dutchgoing 1 month ago
@dutchgoing "Ok but it kind of reinforces the notion that the rest of the world has of Americans being rather ignorant of the world outside of the USA" thats the same thing isnt it. obviously we arent all like what the world views us as...there are a wide variety of people here, all nationalities and races. we are not all fat, stupid, redneck warmongers...but people enjoy the comedy that comes from that notion. i enjoy comedy so the stereotypes dont bother me, just as it shouldnt bother you.
howtokillawerewolf 1 month ago
@howtokillawerewolf A very noticeable %age of people in the USA are very poorly educated about the outside world, just as very many people in the UK think that our tiny country is a place that the rest of the world pays much attention to, we are not Europeans but at the same time we are at the centre of things & not broke like some of our neighbours. Sheer delusion. I don't even recognise ther stereotypes BH represents here which is why it is a pretty bad comedy set.
dutchgoing 1 month ago
@dutchgoing i must be a shining example of my country then, as i am quite worldly. i have met and conversed with people from the nordic areas, north and south ireland, scotland, poland and even some strongly sterotypical slags from london herself. and i will say that those from within london i met and partied with for more than a week...did not share the opinion of themselves you just mentioned. but as i said, theres all types there, as there are here. anyway, Hicks was, well... Hicks.
howtokillawerewolf 1 month ago
@howtokillawerewolf Ah yes you must have travelled if you know the context in which to use the world 'slaaaaag!!!'. I salute you sir, yes I do. We have a small island complex in the UK as I have described.
dutchgoing 4 weeks ago
Football hooligans to be entirely honest, no guns of course, would completely fuck up the Bloods. All they do is beat the ever loving shit out of each other.
EjvindDark 2 months ago
haha love you Bill
even though your English accent's worse than Dick Van Dykes :)
lustreboy 2 months ago
@lustreboy Ha ha, I reckon he got it from spinal tap : )
beirney82 2 months ago
people just like this because it's bill hicks and are ignoring that it's a fucking shit piece of comedy.
thespread 2 months ago
@thespread Man of the people, here. He speaks for us all. He knows everything about us, and knows the very deepest secrets of out hearts. He is a genius, and an expert in all forms of comedy, including the entire history of comedy. He knows what good comedy is. We should all listen to this man...
Not really, you're a jackass.
douchiemcfagballs 1 month ago
@douchiemcfagballs OH MY GO I SAID SOMETHING THAT GOES AGAINST THE GRAIN YOU GUYS HAD BETTER FUCKING CRUCIFY ME.
I love Bill, but this is not him at his best. The irony is, you're a schmuck unwilling to consider things from a different angle. If Bill Hicks were alive, he'd probably find you a loathsome small-minded little prick with a very apt username and call you out for being the spineless shit-swallowing jackass that you surely are. Peace.
thespread 1 month ago
@thespread "unwilling to consider things for a different angle". Considering comedy is a subjective media, your entire reply makes you look like an idiot. There is no good or bad comedy, because everyone likes different things. If you think it's bad, someone else might think it's the funniest thing ever. Neither is right or wrong, it's down to that person's sense of humour. The true irony is, if anyone is small-minded here, it's you. Also, Ad Hominem is never a good choice.
douchiemcfagballs 1 month ago
@douchiemcfagballs So many things wrong with your post, it's beyond the character limit to rebuke them all. I do find it funny that you take issue with the ad hominem attack though, since the ENTIRETY of your initial comment was in itself an ad hominem attack against me. Re-read it, then bask in the irony.
thespread 1 month ago
@thespread "the ENTIRETY of your initial comment was in itself an ad hominem attack against me" That was the joke, well done for catching it. I don't really understand how there were so many points wrong it goes beyond the character limit. There was 2 points. One point say that comedy was subjective, and the other was the ad hominem "point", which was a joke. It just seems like you can't refute my first point so you decided to go to argue the obviously wrong one. Well done. You're the best.
douchiemcfagballs 1 month ago
love u bill from england
cookieeatingzombie 2 months ago
Some places in Britain are admittedly scary, like anywhere, but it's not near the same level as America. You could walk through Moss Side in Manchester without so much as a second look, but walking through the projects in New York might be the last time anyone sees you alive. In the UK you can pretty much visit any countryside and be safe, but in America... well you've seen Deliverance right??
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jonafromwales 2 months ago
@permedmammoth I might have missed something, but the last time I checked crime isn't something a country should be proud of lol
lampard554 1 month ago
Bill would've been 50 today :(
beirney82 2 months ago
@beirney82 God love him
lustreboy 2 months ago
@lustreboy He's my hero.
beirney82 2 months ago
Speaking as an englishman, I find this fucking hilarious.
RelentlessLimpet 2 months ago
This is fucking funny.
karadan100 2 months ago
like to hear him say it to some (football) hooligans
lottiesmith57 2 months ago
As an Englishman, I wish this was true. Sadly though, it isn't. England, like the rest of the UK, is pretty much fucked beyond all recognition these days.
jk2008jk 2 months ago 26
@jk2008jk He died in 1994......so perhaps a little out of date for things as now. Still funny though. :o)
sheridad64 1 month ago
@jk2008jk yea we have young hooligans worshiping AMERICAN gangster rap to thank for that!
beefkilla 1 month ago
@jk2008jk This was twenty yeas ago, plus he's just having a laugh ;D he did the same thing when talking about Australia.
PrivateJoker17 1 month ago
@jk2008jk thats all of the western world my friend
xjustin523x 1 month ago
@jk2008jk No, no. English crime pathetic. "careful, or ill cut ya blud"
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RedDwarffs 1 month ago
@RedDwarffs It's not all like that, organised crime is rife in the UK. The quotes you have just said are the product of typical chavy cunts with no sense whatsoever.
DaleSix66 1 month ago
@RedDwarffs No thats called petty crime, its in america as we'll. Organised crime is much larger in England like in america. CRIME IS PATHETIC IN THE WORLD IN GENERAL. Not England.
MrCherubhair1 1 month ago
anyone know what song he was emulating?
kaz287 2 months ago
@kaz287 Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
hughh20 2 months ago
@hughh20 thankyou my dear friend
kaz287 2 months ago
@kaz287 the who behind blue eyes
soggy3 2 months ago
Yeah, considering how dead to the point Bill Hicks usually is, this is a really inaccurate and misguided.
nathan113 2 months ago
Not funny
FuriousGibbon 2 months ago
He was a comedien! Thats what they do! Im proud of being English but i dont see how taking the piss out of crime in England was insulting to the Ennglish? He took the piss out of everyone.
fenthedog 2 months ago
Personally I'm very thankful we don't have as much horrific crime in the UK. Not having a population that's free to buy firearms is pretty sweet.
DeeZeveel 2 months ago
Hahaha people from England are freaking out. He is talking about all the posh areas. Im From Liverpool (Its in england), crime is pretty rough and sometimes really bad. In fact they even have special type of police called the Matrix to target gangs and drugs dealers and what not. Yes Bill probably didn't visit the roughest parts of England but lets at least laugh at Bill taking the piss out of the rich posh dick heads :) Thanks Bill, Love ya!
AdamCKY123 2 months ago
I don't care about people bickering who has a tougher country. But if you look at the latest riots in the UK I think its quite clear there is a crime issue.
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TyroneSandalphon 3 months ago
Disgusting how you guys are arguing over who has the better criminals ¬¬
YOUPUBEISGAY 3 months ago 2
america got gun crime.
we've got knife crime
oh, and chavs smashing up public property, real hardcore stuff
sinistergnr 3 months ago
MY COUNTRY IS HARDER THAN YOURS!!
Fucking idiots.
Aspire85 3 months ago
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ianwilson2007 3 months ago
@ianwilson2007 What the fuck?! You're apparently 43 and you're still having a prick waving competition about how 'hard' parts of England are. I thought you were some little 18 year old nonce judging by your comment. Get a fucking grip and grow up you pathetic clown. No wonder England is full of fucking assholes.
Aspire85 3 months ago
@ianwilson2007 bit harsh isn't it? only a bit of comedy mate, chill out!
rizzlamania00 3 months ago
yeh, low crime rates, that's a good reason to rip on a country
bell191991 3 months ago
@bell191991 it's not that we have low crime rates, it's the kind of crimes that are committed. We might have isolated muggings and murders, but we'll never have anything close to America's level of gun violence and gang culture.
JimmyColls 3 months ago
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im american and i like it up the ass
isaactrio 3 months ago
Gang violence against innocent people, particularly with guns, knives and mob handed-it's a black and brown t'ing.
IslamicCaliphateUK 3 months ago
Usually a very informed man, dont find this funny in the slightest since my mum and uncle were savagely attacked by football hooligans with stanley knives in the 90s
R0B0stairs 3 months ago
Take the little dicks that think they are the balls to the US and have them shot up by the bloods? yes please bill taa
TheAlbatrossROSS 3 months ago
@TheAlbatrossROSS He's dead
Rsvideosfordummies 3 months ago
Not Bill at his most perceptive.
IntrepidMoocher 3 months ago
Bill Hicks was a genius because he could make anything funny. Some people seem to be taking him a bit too literally here. He's just making people laugh he's not saying it that literally.
MrCherubhair1 4 months ago
Ha! I WISH crime in England was that nice....
But he is talking about some posh twat telling him that haha.
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MrCherubhair1 4 months ago
This is the best example of taking the piss out of your own country, by apparently mocking someone elses, that I've ever seen. I wonder how many of the audience were laughing about the English and how many were laughing about themselves though...interesting.
scaryninja1693 4 months ago
lmfaoooo
Hayleighcookie 4 months ago
im from manchester... the fuck did he go to think england is safe? down south?
xbENNNEHHhx 4 months ago
i love the fact that some of my countrymen have taken this as an insult to the quality of our crime
reltonpelton 4 months ago 57
Not 1 person in the audience seemed to get that he was parodying a Who song.
cmomofilm 4 months ago
crips v westham firm. im bettin on the westham firm tbh
xseantheprawnx 4 months ago
5 children a day shot dead in the USA, 4 children a year shot dead in the UK.
warriorprince1010 4 months ago
Lol, i love Bill, but he had obviously never visited the rougher parts of the UK.
LemonPieLoL 4 months ago 30
@LemonPieLoL shut up you asshole
echobears 4 months ago
@echobears Youmadbro? A wannabe intellectual. I wasn't berating the comedian I was pointing out an inconsistency.
I also see you like to abuse people. Is it because you are physically located 'out of reach'? That makes you a coward in my book, and probably Bill's book too. Kill yourself; hypocrite.
LemonPieLoL 4 months ago
@LemonPieLoL in bill hicks wqords ; SHUDDUP. fucking niggerdick suck cock cunt wank shitty bastarding cunting dicklciking mofo crapeating turd burgling assghole loosening jackass
echobears 4 months ago
@echobears Ugh.. If you say so bro.
LemonPieLoL 4 months ago
@LemonPieLoL
It's possible. It's also possible that he's a comedian and he's trying to get a laugh.
D0g63rt 4 months ago
@LemonPieLoL i think bill was refering to crime in quantity, in LA. Everything from race wars, mexican mafia, mexican gangs, korean gangs. I think he just pointed the bloods and crips as an example.There just seems to be more of it and more room for it.
KINGARTHUR3341 4 months ago
@LemonPieLoL
U have obviously never been to america. makes the Uk look like disneyland!
thistleplace999 3 months ago
@thistleplace999
your right american crime does make British crime look like disneyland, America is shit isn't it?
mufc4527 3 months ago
@thistleplace999 That is just arrogance at it's worst. Like every country we have our problems with crime. Like every country there are horrific murders on a regular basis. Like any country we have poverty. Like any country we have organised crime. You country might be bigger, have more people, but the crimes in any country are just as gruesome. It wasn't too long ago where a man in Glasgow was hacked into hundreds of pieces with a butcher's knife - now tell me that isn't horrific.
LemonPieLoL 3 weeks ago
@LemonPieLoL He has been to the UK and felt that he really found his audience over there. But I agree there are some really bad parts over there as there is everywhere.
dedzone 2 months ago
i have no doubt that if americans came up against english football hooligans they would run.....just like every other country has.....thier world famous.....apart from america
TheTwollocks 4 months ago
Man must learn to love one another uncoditionally... religion is a means to divide us all.
Inhumanati 4 months ago
Bill was no dope he knows he is taking the piss out of an old hometown yankee imaginary view of England. 11 Hour flight his hometown was burning to the ground. H reads a stupid article about a dustbin lol.
Everywhere in the world seemed safe simple and ridiculous after the London riots.
London and LA have a lot in common!
hundhun17 5 months ago
@hundhun17 Nothing in common other than alot of rich twats and alot more poor twats thats it....oh and neil young
moss1066 5 months ago