Kevin Booth and David Johndrow direct Bill Hicks in this stand-up comedy special where Bill performs a live stand-up show in Austin, Texas.

Whoever decided to overlay grainy black and white footage onto the performance needs to have a word with themselves. It detracts from the comedy and makes Bill seem like he is trapped in a Lynchian hellscape. The lack of slickness is often endearing though; walkouts, distractions, terrible camera angles. It feels like a truer document than what we get today. There are some god level perfect stand-up routines here. Searing, brutal, honest. Others are captured better in Revelations while the George Michael stuff has dated horribly.

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Perfect Double Bill: American: The Bill Hicks Story (2011)