Bill Hicks

William Melvin Hicks (December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician. His material, encompassing a wide range of social issues including religion, politics, and philosophy, was controversial, and often steeped in dark comedy. He criticized consumerism, superficiality and banality within the media and popular culture, which he characterized as oppressive tools of the ruling class that keep people "stupid and apathetic".

At the age of 16, while still in high school, he began performing at the Comedy Workshop in Houston, Texas. During the 1980s, he toured the United States extensively and made a number of high-profile television appearances; but it was in the UK that he amassed a significant fan base, filling large venues during his 1991 tour. He also achieved a modicum of recognition as a guitarist and songwriter.

Hicks died of pancreatic cancer on February 26, 1994 in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the age of 32. In subsequent years his work gained a significant measure of acclaim in creative circles—particularly after a series of posthumous album releases—and he developed a substantial cult following. In 2007 he was voted sixth on Britain's Channel 4 list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Up Comics, and rose to number four on the 2010 list.

Bill Hicks (American football)

Bill Hicks (born May 16, 1940) was the 15th head football coach for the Howard Payne University Yellow Jackets located in Brownwood, Texas and he held that position for three seasons, from 1982 until 1984. His career coaching record at Howard Payne was 6 wins, 23 losses, and 1 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2007 season, this ranks him 16th at Howard Payne in total wins and 18th at Howard Payne in winning percentage (.217).

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Bill Hicks (footballer)

Bill Hicks (18 September 1899 – 21 September 1962) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Any Questions?

Any Questions? is a topical debate radio programme in the United Kingdom.

Format

It is broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on Friday evenings and repeated on Saturday afternoons, when it is followed by a phone-in response programme, Any Answers?, previously a postal response slot. Questions were originally far more diverse with a panel often made up of a clergyman, a journalist, an academic and either a politician or a trades unionist. Since current affairs journalists became its chairmen it nowadays typically features a panel with four members drawn from politicians from the three major UK political parties and other public figures who answer questions put to them by the audience, who are drawn from the locality being visited. Questions are collected from the audience and a number are then selected by a BBC producer. The chairman is Jonathan Dimbleby and it is produced by Lisa Jenkinson. In recent years the programme has made prominent use of the microblogging site Twitter, including the hashtag #bbcaq. On the edition first broadcast on 9 October 2015, panel member Charles Moore made a comment suggesting the Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain should have made 'something traditional and Islamic instead of a ... white man type dish'. The 'dish' in question was a multicoloured cheesecake. Five minutes later Jonathan Dimbleby read out a tweet saying 'The winner was British and her culture is our culture, why shouldn't she bake a 'white man's' cake if she wants? ', to much applause in the room.

Any Questions (Australian TV series)

Any Questions was an Australian television series which aired on ABC from 1958 to 1960. The series presented a panel, who would discuss various topics in each episode. ABC produced several discussion series during the 1950s and 1960s. Originally aired on Thursdays, it later moved to Wednesdays. Some of the editions were made in Sydney, while others were made in Melbourne.

Overview

The "Chairman" overseeing the panel varied: In Melbourne it included Frank Eyre, in Sydney it included Nicholas Larkins and Frank Legg.

TV listings from the run of the series suggest the Sydney edition was telerecorded for Melbourne broadcast, although video-tape had become available in Australia by 1959 ABC did not acquire video-tape equipment until the 1960s, likely due to the expense of early video-tape. It is not known if any of these telerecordings (also known as kinescope recordings) are still extant, given the erratic survival rate of 1950s Australian television programs.