Waging War Against War
At the time of Bill Hicks’ Just for Laughs Comedy Festival performance in Montreal, Canada (Relentless/1991), no other comedian had the courage to speak out against the first, overwhelmingly popular, American War in Iraq.
Of course few comedians were as honest or funny as Bill.
• The opening “Flag Burning” piece is off Dangerous, Bill’s first CD, released in 1989.
— photographs / editing by Dave Hogerty (OriginalNoise.Org)
• The American Flag featured in a Marine Corp. television ad (1993).
• The First Iraq War from “Relentless” (1991) Montreal.
