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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">kicks79</strong> said:</div><div>People say that Hicks was going after easy targets but at the time of his routines in the 80's an 90's what other comics were doing that ? I mean talking about right to life got him banned off Letterman and i don't see a lot of people going after Reagan.<br />
	I mean if im wrong i'd like to see examples of other standups doing this. Also Hicks didn't really get that famous until years and years after his death. I say give him his dues. Do you guys really not like something just because everyone else does ? Seems kinda weird to me</div></blockquote>
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	That's all on the money, I think.  <br />
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	I can see where someone from the UK would think that Hicks was "going after easy targets."  The UK is a much more liberal and secular society than the US is - especially the part of the US where Hicks got his start.  There was nothing easy about his targets in his context.<br />
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	It's also not as though politics and religion were his only subjects.   I loved his drug material and his anti-marketing rants.<br />
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	And when he went to Blighty and did his "Hooligans" routine it was pure gold.  "I'd hate to be a dustbin in Shaftesbury tonight."  <br />
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	Brilliant, as the scallywags say.

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