I don't mean to sound cruel or vicious. Hicks spent his whole life trying to inflame, enrage, and enlighten. Since then, not a single comedian has stepped up to fill Hicks' shoes. Comedy in America means sit-coms, wry observations and doofuses hitting fruit with hammers. Most Americans still don't know who he was.
Nobody wants to die.
A couple of weeks before he passed away, he told me, 'I've worked my whole life to get here and told a million jokes along the way.