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MSNBC's Keith Olbermann recently started including "The Bill Hicks Is Still Ahead of His Time" clip of the week on his show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann. The first clip featured a soundbyte from one of Bill's 1997 stand-up performances.

Olbermann followed the clip with a gre

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MSNBC's Keith Olbermann recently started including "The Bill Hicks Is Still Ahead of His Time" clip of the week on his show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann. The first clip featured a soundbyte from one of Bill's 1997 stand-up performances.

Olbermann followed the clip with a great outro saying, "Something from the late comedian and transcended commentator, Bill Hicks, which we'll show you about once a week with the kind permissoin of his family. That's from 20 years ago and it's still as fresh as today's headlines."

Check out the clip HERE and make sure to tune in to Countdown with Keith Olbermann Monday through Friday at 8pm EST on MSNBC to see more Bill Hicks clips.

Bill Hicks' The Essential Collection is available with exclusive fan bundles at billhicks.hasawebstore.com, as well as at Amazon. 

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Bill Hicks' new box set, The Essential Collection, is available in stores today. The 2 CD/2 DVD set encompasses Bill's short but influential career as a satirist, social critic and stand-up comedian.

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Bill Hicks' new box set, The Essential Collection, is available in stores today. The 2 CD/2 DVD set encompasses Bill's short but influential career as a satirist, social critic and stand-up comedian.

VanityFair.com has an exclusive video clip from The Essential Collection in which a 19 year old Bill performs at the Comix Annex in Houston, TX. Bill Hicks’ extraordinary social commentary is as fresh and stunning today as it was in the 80‘s and 90’s.  He engaged his audiences by confronting mainstream beliefs and hypocrisy in a manner that provoked thought as well as laughter. Bill called himself “Chomsky with dick jokes” and The New Yorker described him as an “exhilarating comic thinker in a renegade class all his own.” Bill’s career was short in span, but powerful in impact.

The Essential Collection is available now with exclusive fan bundles at billhicks.hasawebstore.com. The album is also available on Amazon and at local retailers. 

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