Lol great find. Btw I was driven to make this video because Bill was an incredible spirit and talented force in the comic world/artistic world. He didn't hesitate to express his feelings regardless of public scrutiny he was true to his heart and his craft. Anybody who can respect creativity, or has been inspired should value artistic integrity and being sincere especially in their craft. Some who decide on a profession go down a path for the right reasons whether passion or survival initially well intentioned but later succumb to selling their souls (most politicians) and lose their sense of morality and some are natural born sociopaths. Never the less I made this in honor of Bill and feeling sickened by the blatant theft and out of my respect for artistic integrity and the sincerity that goes into an art form. I didn't intend for it to come off as a Hate Denis Leary video but that's how it turned out lol. There's a difference bettween theft and influence which is my next video defending zeppelin.
@@Fabulavevo The fact that he’s a no-talent hack that steals all his jokes in the most annoying way possible, and that instead of fessing up to that when it’s so blatantly obvious to anyone with ears, he keeps denying it and trying to bring down the careers of his jokes’ originators. He’s a first ballot Hall of Fame a-hole!
“On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did.”
@@mikiex Bill even spoke on it at the time... “On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did.” ― Bill Hicks
That's the concept that you guys don't get. This bits and premises where all part of the zeitgeist and talking points at every party and bar in the western world. The Judas priest law suit was every where - how many people off handed just said "idiots killing themselves where's the problem" - same with the Jim Fix story, same with throat smoking guy, he was everywhere. These bits are not profound or unique loads of comics where doing them - it was different time and much narrow social buzz to extract from but also a much broader appeal for comics so they all used the same premises - you need to watch 90s comedy , really watch it and you will agree. This only became an issue for Hick's and others when Leary broke through on MTV. There's no comparison, Hick's is a real comic, Leary is a performer- but no cure for cancer is a brilliant piece of work...its not about the ideas and bits its a character we all know .Leary showed himself up for what he was but that early work is not copying hicks its more like being part of the movement...where grunge bands copying each other? why don't you listen to Alice in Chains and Stone temple pilots back to back
No, Leary wasn't capable of penning a joke of such complexity, and sophistication until his twenties . . . oh wait, never mind, Leary did not actually pen that joke at all. My bad.
Ikr? It's not even an actual joke. Bill's "2 lighters" joke works because the timing and phrasing make you briefly think he says "2 packs a day". Just to say 7000 a day isn't a punchline at all
He's more like William hung from American idol, except later got to work with Robert de niro and was taken seriously in Hollywood for a minute. He prob. felt how I did when I went to lollapalooza and the guard let pass when I confidently flashed my non vip wrist band.
@@christopherwinko1978 Better at deliveries? holy fuck what crack are you smoking? He is literally steamrolling through sentences to basically say nothing.
Incredible how Leary manages to dumb down what's already a very simple joke with the first one; "I go through two lighters a day" involves some threadbare amount of thinking on the audience's part to "get", so Leary just outright blurts out "I SMOKE A THOUSAND CIGARETTES A DAY"
Yeah he takes all the subtlety out of comedy which is what he is famous for and why I like him but I dont really think he's funny. He sells energy and Hicks sells comedy.
There's like 2 mins of lifted material here. No Cure For Cancer was an 80 min set. Lock 'N Load from a few years later doesn't have any jokes lifted from Hicks.
God, Hicks' delivery is on such another level. You can see parts of him in so many comedians, I don't mean actually stealing like Leary, just people you knew must have grown up worshipping him.
I wouldn't completely agree with that. That "smoking out of both holes" shit was way funnier than Bill Hicks' take. HOWEVER: When you steal your premise/joke/punchline, being funnier doesn't matter, because the bottom-line is that you suck.
Generally, if a comedian relies on shouting and making loud noises, their set is shit. If they were confident in their jokes and their ability to tell them, there would be no need for screaming.
@@daviddemaria3982 He actually had the nerve to discuss Louie CK's asshole joke with him to pull more ideas out of Louis, and then then he stole the whole bit.
I'm ashamed that I ever once thought Leary is funny. I did as a teenager. But I only recently started watching Hicks and he was fucking awesome. I love the anti-intellectual bit about reading.
Don’t be ashamed. It’s just proof of genuinely good comedy. Dumb, immature kids would find Leary funny and wouldn’t understand Hicks’ comedy. I was the same way... Then you grow up, get smarter and your sense of humor matures. And boom, Hicks is hilarious and Leary sounds like a hack. The true idiots are the ones who grow up and think people like Leary are funny.
Lol don't be ashamed. I honestly don't know what it's like to have heard leary before hicks.. but I heard that Joe Rogan did, and thought he was a comic machine, until hicks showed weeks later with the same material and thats when he learned from other comics Denis was a joke thief. If anything it's a testament to bill's material.
Ch ch ch. Excuse me sir, what you readin for? Well you stumped me.. not what am I reading but what am I reading for? I guess I read for a log of reasons but I'd say the main reason is.....
Yup same dude. Leary was just so much more popular. His shit was all over. I took me getting into Hicks to realize "wait a minute" Leary ripped all this shit off. Fucker!
I hated Leary from the start b4 I even knew he ripped of Hicks he just came across as a try hard who swore a lot in his act cause his delivery was shit ahh just a cringe fest
Leary already had like 5 acting credits in Hollywood movies and was signed on to star in 3 or 4 upcoming movies by the time he did No Cure For Cancer in 1993. I love Bill Hicks, but his act that was heavy on government conspiracies, psychedelic drugs, religion and spirituality was really not mainstream friendly at all, and that's fine. Bill didn't wanna compromise on any of that which is commendable, but Denis was able to streamline his angry, rant at the world routine into something much more mainstream with his stand-up act and early acting roles, and then quickly evolved into a pretty well-rounded actor that wasn't reliant on those rapid-fire rants anymore.
@@Bubba__Sawyerso mediocrity got him "mainstream acclaim"? Also in today's world being told the mainstream loves you should be a death sentence! Who wants to follow the herd?
Check out the one called '"rarely seen bill hicks 7", around the 12:20 mark...my personal favorite Leary rip-off...the cocaine joke. That's the one that broke my back.
He never outright "stole" any material - more "adapted" it - but he certainly allowed his influences to get the better of him. Kind of like Tarantino does in movies - difference is of course QT acknowledges his influences whereas Leary did not. Fine line between stealing material and adapting your influences. I mean very few comedians are "original" - it all comes from influences. The broader the influences the more original the content. Leary was clearly heavily influenced by Hicks - and I wouldn't be surprised if that was his only influence in comedy (save from taking a few bits from lower level circuit comics).
“On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did.” -Bill Hicks
It’s not even just the fact that he completely rips Hick’s off, it’s that he so fucking bad at delivering jokes. He desperately wants to be funny and desperately tries to be funny, but he isn’t. He doesn’t have any natural gift for it. It’s all forced. Leary delivers every punchline like a 8 year old in school who immediately follows it up with “DO YOU GET IT? HUH? HUH?” Anyone can say “funny things”. Only a comedian can say things funny.
Thanks for the info. Found the video and listened especially at 12:20 for it. Too, bad. Bill Hicks left too soon and this guy stole sets from him and made a lot stealing from others as well.
I've seen much worse specials, but the thievery makes it pretty detestable. Still, before I knew I wouldn't say it was a terrible special. Just not on par with Hicks, or C.K, or Murphy, or Pryor, of any other heavyweights.
@@Jesus.X Jesus all you people are so snotty like the man’s dead he’s not going to be crying about his material being stolen because he’s 6 feet in the fucking ground
Denis Leary lifted segments of Bill Hicks act, re-worded it and perfomed it at a faster tempo which led to people referring to him as Bill Hicks on speed. Material such as "jim fix, cigerette warnings, and heavy metal records backwards are just a few examples of entire segments he lifted from Bill Hicks act - he simply re-worded it. He also lifted the mock shooting of himself at the end of his show directly from Bill Hicks shows aswell as hick's "famous people dying" segment. I remember a few years ago a few friends came round to my house for a meal. Afterwards we sat down and played xbox. We got into a discussion and they happened to mention by pure chance Denis Leary's stand up show called "no cure for cancer". When i told them that Denis Leary had stole alot of stuff off Bill Hicks they wouldn't believe me. So i started playing them my private collection of Bill Hicks stand up dvds and bootleg vhs tapes and i skipped to the parts that i knew Leary had stole. Being die hard Denis Leary fans they knew his material off by heart. When they saw Bill Hicks performing Learys act they thought the shows must have been done afterwards. I then showed them the exact dates the Hicks shows were performed as its written on the inside sleeve of the dvds and bootleg vhs tapes that i own. I proved to them that Hicks shows were done years before Learys. They were forced to admit i was right. (Grudgingly).
True (assuming LCK's account is true) - but I am glad that song exists. It is a great song (even if you hate the artist you can appreciate the art). LCK's version was a stand up routine and Leary adapted it into a song. Still stealing material for sure (and from a relatively unknown artist at the time) - but I think there's a fine line between "stealing" and being "influenced".
@@Weird-City not in Leary's case. Art imitates life, life imitates art and so forth but Leary literally steals material and adds no further value. He makes it worse. He is a comedian cuckoo. A fraud.
Plenty remember Leary. Someone made an "I'm an asshole" reference to him lately cus of his role in the older Spiderman movie in relation to the new Spiderman movie. You're out of touch haha.
I love Bill Hicks, but he became famous about 10 years or so after he died when a few of his shows finally got released on DVD. Meanwhile Leary had a pretty successful career in Hollywood, even having several starring roles, and would go on to write and star in an award winning drama series that ran for 7 seasons. So you, as a fan of stand-up comedy may be more familiar with Bill Hicks, but Denis Leary is FAR more known to the mainstream.
I only did stand up comedy for about 5 years, and I left comedy partially because of this reason. I was obsessed with originality, yet I’d have to change my set because someone stole my joke.
I'm also willing to bet another reason you left is that our current culture no longer rewards originality. Too much risk....must worship that almighty algorithm!
I only did stand up comedy for about 5 years too and I also left comedy partially for this reason. I too was obsessed with originality, yet I'd also have to change my set because someone stole my joke.
As a Brit it is genuinely impossible to watch Leary. We hate that style. Even if he was the best at that style he'd be terrible, but he's even a failure at being a clown.
@@Fabulavevotrust me and him when we say that hyper act doesn't work here. The only one that does it is Russell Howard and the only people who think it's in any way endearing is young über liberal girls. Not women.
There is only (one) real comedian who was waking the sleeping masses that 99% of this Millennial Generation haven't a clue about (George Carlin) and of course Bill.
Comedians "borrowing" from each other is common enough, but this is blatant theft made all the more evident with the film splices. It also proves what many of us already knew. Bill Hicks was a consummate comedian, hands down.
I didn’t even know that guy from that firefighter show was a comedian. But I’ve listened to Bill Hicks since I was 12.. no joke. And that was 16 years ago..
Leary got famous before Hicks and probably thought he was stealing some nobody's material. That is what Led Zeppelin did with obscure blues and rock musicians' material. I love Zeppelin's and Leary's works, but they are thieves.
@@JW-qx3xr I'm a huge Zeppelin fan and have to admit several of the songs were lifted. Dazed and Confused, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, etc. I don't think Stairway was copied though. That suit was frivolous.
this explains why Denis Leary is completely irrelevant and probably hasn't had a comedy tour in over a decade, because he has to steal jokes to have an act and in today's age you are going to get caught if you do
Before the internet..... he just thought he would get away with it. If it wasn't on T.V, you hadn't gone to the show and you couldn't get it on video... You never knew and never would..... 30 years later..... Here it is... This copying, stealing is soooo bad.
Always felt like Bill would gave been a fascinating guy to sit down and talk with. Leary is the noisy and annoying guy you'd leave the bar to get away from.
His entire "I'm an asshole" thing he lifted from Louis CK. To be fair, Denis did get Louis' permission to lift it. The whole 'asshole' thing was one joke in Louis' set, and Louis famously scraps his entire set after a bit and writes all new material. So Denis asked if he could have that one bit and Louis said "sure".
Plenty of people do because they've seen him a ton of great movies and an award winning tv drama that ran for 7 seasons. His career in Hollywood was already taking off by the time he did No Cure For Cancer in 1993, which feature a few of the bits he lifted from Hicks. Never mind the rest of the set being uniquely different.
Ashamed to say I saw Leary,s act first and liked it. Didn't know the p.o.s stole it all from Bill. You can't even compare the two? Bill was a genius, and Leary was just a thief. Hope he cries himself to sleep every night over what he did.
![Denis Leary on Coffee [Lock N Load]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/-f_dxLiuXuw/mqdefault.jpg)
Dennis Leary took Jim Carrey's mannerisms, Bill Hicks' act and the face of Willem Defoe.
Dude dennis is born before what a #######!!!!
@@nathmarquis7427 ?
And he stole the asshole song/bit from Louis ck
We live in a world where Bill Hicks dies and Dennis Leary lives....
@@drummerdoingstuff5020 😭
One of my favorite things ever over on imdb was for Leary's "No Cure for Cancer" - someone added "Bill Hicks - Writer (uncredited)" to the page.
Lol great find. Btw I was driven to make this video because Bill was an incredible spirit and talented force in the comic world/artistic world. He didn't hesitate to express his feelings regardless of public scrutiny he was true to his heart and his craft. Anybody who can respect creativity, or has been inspired should value artistic integrity and being sincere especially in their craft. Some who decide on a profession go down a path for the right reasons whether passion or survival initially well intentioned but later succumb to selling their souls (most politicians) and lose their sense of morality and some are natural born sociopaths. Never the less I made this in honor of Bill and feeling sickened by the blatant theft and out of my respect for artistic integrity and the sincerity that goes into an art form. I didn't intend for it to come off as a Hate Denis Leary video but that's how it turned out lol. There's a difference bettween theft and influence which is my next video defending zeppelin.
😂this was the best thing to find out!! I showed my husband too!!😂
😂 Brilliant!
Amazing.
@@PalisadeNights Bill was very popular in Britain "the Brits get me " he said .
What sucks is that we live in a world where Denis Leary lives, but Bill Hicks died a long time ago now! 😢
God damn what drove you to hate Denis leary so much?
@@Fabulavevo The fact that he’s a no-talent hack that steals all his jokes in the most annoying way possible, and that instead of fessing up to that when it’s so blatantly obvious to anyone with ears, he keeps denying it and trying to bring down the careers of his jokes’ originators. He’s a first ballot Hall of Fame a-hole!
Yeah, why didn’t Denis copy Bill with that bit.
yet Barry Manilow...
@@Fabulavevo Did you even watch the video? You’re an idiot.
I think Hicks said once that he stole all of his material from Denis Leary, and just to throw the audience off he did it 5 years earlier
And disguised it with punchlines lol
@@gmo9023 yes!
“On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did.”
It was sarcasm
Nooooo! Spool me up a chair. Foreigners don't get sarcasm unless it's gift wrapped. @@leostawicki7283
why did you quit smoking Bill? "to see if Denis would quit too"
I think he did too. Didn’t he? If my memory serves me correctly.
Dennis didn't count on the information age finding him out.
A lot of comedians and writers and such didn't. Good thing the real deals are being found
I remember him being accused of ripping off Bill Hicks back in the mid 90s after his album came out
@@mikiex Bill even spoke on it at the time... “On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did.”
― Bill Hicks
The shame of it. I'm blushing just at the thought of doing it and getting found out
That's the concept that you guys don't get. This bits and premises where all part of the zeitgeist and talking points at every party and bar in the western world. The Judas priest law suit was every where - how many people off handed just said "idiots killing themselves where's the problem" - same with the Jim Fix story, same with throat smoking guy, he was everywhere. These bits are not profound or unique loads of comics where doing them - it was different time and much narrow social buzz to extract from but also a much broader appeal for comics so they all used the same premises - you need to watch 90s comedy , really watch it and you will agree.
This only became an issue for Hick's and others when Leary broke through on MTV. There's no comparison, Hick's is a real comic, Leary is a performer- but no cure for cancer is a brilliant piece of work...its not about the ideas and bits its a character we all know .Leary showed himself up for what he was but that early work is not copying hicks its more like being part of the movement...where grunge bands copying each other? why don't you listen to Alice in Chains and Stone temple pilots back to back
“7000 packs a day”... Did he write that joke when he was in 2nd grade?
Leary is 3yrs older then Hicks. Though Hicks Started his career 9yrs before Leary!
Obviously not.
He wrote it after he heard Hicks say it and he decided to calculate how many cigarettes he could light with two lighters. lol
@TheDevilOfDallas nah still 3yrs
No, Leary wasn't capable of penning a joke of such complexity, and sophistication until his twenties . . . oh wait, never mind, Leary did not actually pen that joke at all. My bad.
Ikr? It's not even an actual joke. Bill's "2 lighters" joke works because the timing and phrasing make you briefly think he says "2 packs a day".
Just to say 7000 a day isn't a punchline at all
Dennis Leary is my favourite cover band
He's more like William hung from American idol, except later got to work with Robert de niro and was taken seriously in Hollywood for a minute. He prob. felt how I did when I went to lollapalooza and the guard let pass when I confidently flashed my non vip wrist band.
@@PalisadeNights agreed. I've seen better cover bands. Robin Williams comes to mind sadly :/
Tribute act! 😂
Lmaoo
He was shameless. A thief
I like the way that Leary's way of getting around plagiarism is by just making the jokes shitter and delivering them worse.
@TheDevilOfDallas It was far better if you like your comedy done shitely.
Leary was 100% better at his deliveries.
@@christopherwinko1978 100% if you've got shit taste.
@@christopherwinko1978 so you'll take his delivery despite his blatant robbery of jokes. got it.
@@christopherwinko1978 Better at deliveries? holy fuck what crack are you smoking? He is literally steamrolling through sentences to basically say nothing.
Incredible how Leary manages to dumb down what's already a very simple joke with the first one; "I go through two lighters a day" involves some threadbare amount of thinking on the audience's part to "get", so Leary just outright blurts out "I SMOKE A THOUSAND CIGARETTES A DAY"
Yeah he takes all the subtlety out of comedy which is what he is famous for and why I like him but I dont really think he's funny. He sells energy and Hicks sells comedy.
@@VivaLaSocialismo wait, so, you don't like sublety in your comedy? Or you enjoy both, just at different times?
Yep
LEARY IS A MORON ..lIAR...and a PIG .
HOWEVER….. when I think of someone going thru 2 lighters a day, I think they’re smoking weed (in bowls or bongs, anyway). 😂
Dennis Leary "maybe if I run through my set as fast as possible nobody will notice all the material I stole"
@Jason Carlson Get a life. This is the Internet nobody gives a fuck
There's like 2 mins of lifted material here. No Cure For Cancer was an 80 min set. Lock 'N Load from a few years later doesn't have any jokes lifted from Hicks.
And yet Bill Hick's entire routine was copied from every other comedian before him.
@@fredcasdensworld Oh yeah I remember hearing another comedian talking about hunting and killing Billy Ray Cyrus
God, Hicks' delivery is on such another level. You can see parts of him in so many comedians, I don't mean actually stealing like Leary, just people you knew must have grown up worshipping him.
Bill Hicks and Eddie Izzard are in another dimension of hilarious.
Leary can’t even make it funny though. He can rip off the material but because he is truly a hack it just comes out so cringey and forced.
I felt the exact opposite, Leary did the jokes way better! Defiantly a joke thief though.
@@armylrs2391 the fact that you are serious 😂🤣
Leary’s delivery is terrible.
I wouldn't completely agree with that. That "smoking out of both holes" shit was way funnier than Bill Hicks' take.
HOWEVER:
When you steal your premise/joke/punchline, being funnier doesn't matter, because the bottom-line is that you suck.
@@armylrs2391 your comment made me stop mid laugh and head straight into depression
I forgot how painfully unfunny Leary is as a standup. It's not the joke stealing that bugs me, it's his unbearable stage mannerisms.
Generally, if a comedian relies on shouting and making loud noises, their set is shit. If they were confident in their jokes and their ability to tell them, there would be no need for screaming.
I think he made clapter mainstream.
At least Carlos Mencia changed the setup a little before delivering the stolen punchline. Leary straight up copied him.
Thats one thing i never got. With leary its fkn blatant and no one called him out during his peak. Ned was
@@felixcolon599 well there was no internet back then. The comics of the time certainly knew leary stoled from hicks
@@jlobiafra that's the crazy part. Leary had zero shame about doing it and didn't care that his peers would think. Creepy
@@daviddemaria3982 He actually had the nerve to discuss Louie CK's asshole joke with him to pull more ideas out of Louis, and then then he stole the whole bit.
I'm ashamed that I ever once thought Leary is funny. I did as a teenager. But I only recently started watching Hicks and he was fucking awesome. I love the anti-intellectual bit about reading.
Don’t be ashamed. It’s just proof of genuinely good comedy. Dumb, immature kids would find Leary funny and wouldn’t understand Hicks’ comedy. I was the same way... Then you grow up, get smarter and your sense of humor matures. And boom, Hicks is hilarious and Leary sounds like a hack.
The true idiots are the ones who grow up and think people like Leary are funny.
@@markperrine501 Great point. Agreed
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Lol don't be ashamed. I honestly don't know what it's like to have heard leary before hicks.. but I heard that Joe Rogan did, and thought he was a comic machine, until hicks showed weeks later with the same material and thats when he learned from other comics Denis was a joke thief. If anything it's a testament to bill's material.
Ch ch ch. Excuse me sir, what you readin for? Well you stumped me.. not what am I reading but what am I reading for? I guess I read for a log of reasons but I'd say the main reason is.....
Hicks gives me hope. Leary reminds me of the people I avoid after having to meet them.
That’s so cringe my god
Teenage me made the mistake of getting into Leary before Hicks.
Same
Yup same dude. Leary was just so much more popular. His shit was all over. I took me getting into Hicks to realize "wait a minute" Leary ripped all this shit off. Fucker!
I hated Leary from the start b4 I even knew he ripped of Hicks he just came across as a try hard who swore a lot in his act cause his delivery was shit ahh just a cringe fest
Same here, man. I used to think Leary was funny until I heard about this.
Kinda makes you more upset at him huh. For tricking us
Its sad when the guy can't even pull off the jokes he's stealing
I can't watch him, he's like a hyperactive teenager trying on his dad's suit.
That guy is pathetic...ruining Bill's material
Amy Schumer ripped off Dennis Leary.
Dennis Leary never mentioned his vagina.
This makes me freaking hate Denis Leary. I always heard this but there are much more bad stories of Leary than good ones.
I couldn’t sit through a Denis Leary show. His delivery is dreadful and I’d spend the entire time wondering whose material I’m actually watching.
Never watched Hicks, before my time. Shocking contrast to Leary, since he seems so likable and genuine.
Wait, you'd never seen Bill Hicks before?
@@alexukbrighton I was born a couple week after he died
Thanks for making me feel old. LOL!
It took me years to realize that the song "Asshole" was autobiographical.
He also stole the premise to that song
@@aldenwenger9286 Indeed. From Louis CK
And not even his own
@@aldenwenger9286 Allegedly. You can't copyright an idea/concept that you never even performed.
@@Bubba__Sawyerwhy are you defending a known joke thief
Leary built his whole career off of being a hack version of Bill Hicks, and CK
But he was pushed by the mainstream and then They pulled the plug on the Bill Hicks project.
Leary already had like 5 acting credits in Hollywood movies and was signed on to star in 3 or 4 upcoming movies by the time he did No Cure For Cancer in 1993. I love Bill Hicks, but his act that was heavy on government conspiracies, psychedelic drugs, religion and spirituality was really not mainstream friendly at all, and that's fine. Bill didn't wanna compromise on any of that which is commendable, but Denis was able to streamline his angry, rant at the world routine into something much more mainstream with his stand-up act and early acting roles, and then quickly evolved into a pretty well-rounded actor that wasn't reliant on those rapid-fire rants anymore.
@@Bubba__Sawyer Being mainstream friendly means you are sucking the devil's cock.
@@Bubba__Sawyerso mediocrity got him "mainstream acclaim"? Also in today's world being told the mainstream loves you should be a death sentence! Who wants to follow the herd?
"I go through 2 lighters a day" is a really good joke though 😂
Leary is painful to watch
Guy is even a copy of Carlin sometimes. There's a fine line between being inspired by and straight imitation.
Yeah....hard to argue that Leary isn't a hack. Wow!
Check out the one called '"rarely seen bill hicks 7", around the 12:20 mark...my personal favorite Leary rip-off...the cocaine joke. That's the one that broke my back.
I didn’t realize yul Bren er was Dracula. Way to ruin a great joke. Fuck denis leary
Denis Leary is only famous for ripping off Bill’s entire act! Hicks was one of a kind. A brilliant comedian!
He never outright "stole" any material - more "adapted" it - but he certainly allowed his influences to get the better of him. Kind of like Tarantino does in movies - difference is of course QT acknowledges his influences whereas Leary did not. Fine line between stealing material and adapting your influences. I mean very few comedians are "original" - it all comes from influences. The broader the influences the more original the content. Leary was clearly heavily influenced by Hicks - and I wouldn't be surprised if that was his only influence in comedy (save from taking a few bits from lower level circuit comics).
@@Weird-City heavily influenced? Sorry, when you're act is that similar, it's straight up stolen
“On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did.” -Bill Hicks
It’s not even just the fact that he completely rips Hick’s off, it’s that he so fucking bad at delivering jokes. He desperately wants to be funny and desperately tries to be funny, but he isn’t. He doesn’t have any natural gift for it. It’s all forced. Leary delivers every punchline like a 8 year old in school who immediately follows it up with “DO YOU GET IT? HUH? HUH?”
Anyone can say “funny things”. Only a comedian can say things funny.
Bill was genuinely honest speaking his mind .denise just cause you're loud doesn't mean you are saying something
He ripped off the cocaine joke too (Rarely seen bill hicks 7, 12:20 mark). That was the last straw for me when it comes to Leary.
Thanks for the info. Found the video and listened especially at 12:20 for it. Too, bad. Bill Hicks left too soon and this guy stole sets from him and made a lot stealing from others as well.
Hicks expertly crafted some amazing jokes.
Leary IS a joke.
Exactly.
No Cure for Cancer is one of the cringiest specials I’ve ever seen
It's not bad tbh
@Joker Jesus Agreed.
I grew up loving No Cure, then I saw Hicks and found out those jokes had punchlines.
I've seen much worse specials, but the thievery makes it pretty detestable. Still, before I knew I wouldn't say it was a terrible special. Just not on par with Hicks, or C.K, or Murphy, or Pryor, of any other heavyweights.
It was so fucking huge when it came out
Denis is still alive with no signs of lung cancer from all the smoking.
Well its like Bill said.. mediocrity thrives and goodness is murdered.
He probably wasn't a hard smoker IRL seems it was just another facade by Dennis.
@@Jesus.X Jesus all you people are so snotty like the man’s dead he’s not going to be crying about his material being stolen because he’s 6 feet in the fucking ground
Guess he beat out Hicks.
Denis Leary lifted segments of Bill Hicks act, re-worded it and perfomed it at a faster tempo which led to people referring to him as Bill Hicks on speed.
Material such as "jim fix, cigerette warnings, and heavy metal records backwards are just a few examples of entire segments he lifted from Bill Hicks act - he simply re-worded it.
He also lifted the mock shooting of himself at the end of his show directly from Bill Hicks shows aswell as hick's "famous people dying" segment.
I remember a few years ago a few friends came round to my house for a meal.
Afterwards we sat down and played xbox.
We got into a discussion and they happened to mention by pure chance Denis Leary's stand up show called "no cure for cancer".
When i told them that Denis Leary had stole alot of stuff off Bill Hicks they wouldn't believe me.
So i started playing them my private collection of
Bill Hicks stand up dvds and bootleg vhs tapes and i skipped to the parts that i knew Leary had stole.
Being die hard Denis Leary fans they knew his material off by heart.
When they saw Bill Hicks performing Learys act they thought the shows must have been done afterwards.
I then showed them the exact dates the Hicks shows were performed as its written on the inside sleeve of the dvds and bootleg vhs tapes that i own.
I proved to them that Hicks shows were done years before Learys.
They were forced to admit i was right. (Grudgingly).
Couldnt believe Louis CKs story about how Leary stole the ‘I’m an Asshole’ bit off him 🤯
True (assuming LCK's account is true) - but I am glad that song exists. It is a great song (even if you hate the artist you can appreciate the art). LCK's version was a stand up routine and Leary adapted it into a song. Still stealing material for sure (and from a relatively unknown artist at the time) - but I think there's a fine line between "stealing" and being "influenced".
@@Weird-City not in Leary's case. Art imitates life, life imitates art and so forth but Leary literally steals material and adds no further value. He makes it worse. He is a comedian cuckoo. A fraud.
I couldn't believe it either because I never saw or heard any proof of it.
Bill Hicks was seriously underrated.
wrong man died
Dennis thinking to himself… “Maybe if I just yell and talk really fast like I’m on crack nobody will notice I ripped off Hicks”
Bill Hick's delivery is so much better. Much more natural. Probably because it is his original material. Leary tries too hard.
If he'd steal from a comedy god, imagine how many other unknown comics he's picked the pockets of.
Bill Hicks had the last laugh, people STILL remember him & nobody remembers leary
It’s true. I only knew Leary from Ice Age
I remember Leary. And you don't have the last laugh when you die of cancer at 33.
Yeah, I know what you meant, don't worry...
Plenty remember Leary. Someone made an "I'm an asshole" reference to him lately cus of his role in the older Spiderman movie in relation to the new Spiderman movie. You're out of touch haha.
@@steveking9146 a bit he stole from Louis CK.
I love Bill Hicks, but he became famous about 10 years or so after he died when a few of his shows finally got released on DVD. Meanwhile Leary had a pretty successful career in Hollywood, even having several starring roles, and would go on to write and star in an award winning drama series that ran for 7 seasons.
So you, as a fan of stand-up comedy may be more familiar with Bill Hicks, but Denis Leary is FAR more known to the mainstream.
Paul Dano should play Bill Hicks if they ever make a movie
I only did stand up comedy for about 5 years, and I left comedy partially because of this reason. I was obsessed with originality, yet I’d have to change my set because someone stole my joke.
I'm also willing to bet another reason you left is that our current culture no longer rewards originality. Too much risk....must worship that almighty algorithm!
@@JoeDiVitaMusicdon't ever be surprised if they have a tick list of things to say and not to say all of them not funny.
I only did stand up comedy for about 5 years too and I also left comedy partially for this reason. I too was obsessed with originality, yet I'd also have to change my set because someone stole my joke.
As a Brit it is genuinely impossible to watch Leary. We hate that style. Even if he was the best at that style he'd be terrible, but he's even a failure at being a clown.
HA WHAT? Are you speaking for a country populating millions of people, Jesus
@@Fabulavevotrust me and him when we say that hyper act doesn't work here. The only one that does it is Russell Howard and the only people who think it's in any way endearing is young über liberal girls. Not women.
I'd love to meet Leary one day just so I could trash him for being a thief.
@Bryce Czirr lol ok 👌
@I'm just a worm oh I've watched it several times lol
Hicks was also known to be a thief at times. Several of his well-known jokes are based on the material of other famous comedians.
He’d probably just laugh at you
@@Fabulavevo That's because I'm actually funny.
Holy shit!! That's not only obvious, he didn't even change the phrasing. The primus, punctuation, it's all the same.. That hurts
Primus? Like the Les Claypool band?
“Ian. Nigel. Come here-ah.” Genius!
Leary should have Hicks beside his name on every credit he has.
It's insane how bad Leary's delivery is
Denis Leary comedy brings back so many bad memories
Oh man. I knew that Leary robbed him, but I didn't realize how how much and how blatantly. Amazing Leary can show his face.
I’m on the same exact boat.
Here in 2020
This videos was published August 2019.
No one gives a fuck when you're here
That was the joke going around at the time: Why is Denis Leary getting away with doing Bill Hicks' act? Because there's No Cure For Cancer.
Ultimately, Bill will be remembered as an absolute legend, whilst Dennis will be remembered as a catastrophically poor imitation...
I knew he stole from Hicks and Louis CK but never knew it was THIS bad! Holy shit!!
I'm drunk, I'm nobody, I'm drunk I'm famous, I'm drunk I'm fucking dead, that piece made me laugh
Great art is never created in a vacuum. But Leary WAS a vacuum. A joke vacuum. Specifically, a Bill Hicks joke vacuum.
At least denis got two Emmy's we know how bill feels about Emmy's that means it's good in our culture
This is spot on
This just makes me wanna watch Hick’s
Still waiting for that Dennis Leary cancer moment, but Hicks died first. So, I don't know.
Dennis “The Mimic” Leary. Conspiracy theorists will tell you he probably sacrificed Hicks for his own fame.
There is only (one) real comedian who was waking the sleeping masses that 99% of this Millennial Generation haven't a clue about (George Carlin) and of course Bill.
This is what thieves to do in any form of art. They make it boring so they have plausible deniability
Wow. How could someone do this and live with themselves?
Sociopath with no artistic integrity or character.
Better question is how all the comics didnt out leary and exile him out of the scene? Hes still friends with all his old standup buddies
$$$$$
Bro only stole a couple of jokes and shit it’s not like he started killing people
Amy Schumer is trans Dennis Leary
So many smoking jokes and he goes at 32 from cancer.
Yeah, but it wasnt even lung cancer. It was pancreatic, I think
Denis Leary takes Bill Hicks’ jokes and makes them worse.
Comedians "borrowing" from each other is common enough, but this is blatant theft made all the more evident with the film splices. It also proves what many of us already knew. Bill Hicks was a consummate comedian, hands down.
I didn’t even know that guy from that firefighter show was a comedian. But I’ve listened to Bill Hicks since I was 12.. no joke. And that was 16 years ago..
7:18 that was fucking BRUTAL
something about Learys face and delivery bothers me to no end. Watching this video was like riding in a awful rollercoaster. Hicks is awesome!!
He literally stole Bill Hick's entire act didn't he? Did he not think anyone would notice?
It was before the internet/information age. He probably figured some people would notice, but not enough to matter.
Leary got famous before Hicks and probably thought he was stealing some nobody's material. That is what Led Zeppelin did with obscure blues and rock musicians' material. I love Zeppelin's and Leary's works, but they are thieves.
Hooptie, who did Zeppelin steal from?
Psychotropic, great point. I bet you're right.
@@JW-qx3xr I'm a huge Zeppelin fan and have to admit several of the songs were lifted. Dazed and Confused, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, etc. I don't think Stairway was copied though. That suit was frivolous.
He was a thief but it would have been better if the footage you showed of Bill was chronologically before the footage you show of Leary.
Bill Hicks has now been dead as long as he was alive. That bums me out.
this explains why Denis Leary is completely irrelevant and probably hasn't had a comedy tour in over a decade, because he has to steal jokes to have an act and in today's age you are going to get caught if you do
Happy Heavenly Birthday Bill.
Before the internet..... he just thought he would get away with it. If it wasn't on T.V, you hadn't gone to the show and you couldn't get it on video... You never knew and never would..... 30 years later..... Here it is... This copying, stealing is soooo bad.
Denis Leary: "because im asshole, asshole, yeah oh yeah yeah!"
Always felt like Bill would gave been a fascinating guy to sit down and talk with.
Leary is the noisy and annoying guy you'd leave the bar to get away from.
BILL HICKS WAS THE GREATEST COMEDIAN / SOCIAL COMMENTATOR EVER!
Denis Leary is, on the other hand, a plagiarist!
I wonder if Leary will ever admit to it.
like the late great norm macdonald, these men turned their own manner of death into a joke long before it happened
Wow, plagiarized AND horrible, pseudo-manic delivery of the guy that gave him his break's material.
His entire "I'm an asshole" thing he lifted from Louis CK. To be fair, Denis did get Louis' permission to lift it. The whole 'asshole' thing was one joke in Louis' set, and Louis famously scraps his entire set after a bit and writes all new material. So Denis asked if he could have that one bit and Louis said "sure".
This is hard to watch, I grew up watching "Rescue Me" with my dad and Tommy was our favorite character, made me love Leary...Sucks.
Having these clips side by side it’s so obvious to see the difference between being a great comedian and trying way too hard to make people laugh
And Greg Giraldo taught him what a real comedian is. Exposed and buried him.
The ending of this video is perfect
How did he (Leary) get away with it? No internet, that's how!
Lose the glasses fella
The best thing Leary has done is small soldiers!!! sad.
Damn this is devastating.
I’m can’t stand the sound of Dennis Leary’s voice. He sounds annoying when he is butchering someone else’s jokes.
Wow. I never realized Dennis stole bill hicks act.
I still love Dennis
Plenty of people do because they've seen him a ton of great movies and an award winning tv drama that ran for 7 seasons. His career in Hollywood was already taking off by the time he did No Cure For Cancer in 1993, which feature a few of the bits he lifted from Hicks. Never mind the rest of the set being uniquely different.
Ashamed to say I saw Leary,s act first and liked it. Didn't know the p.o.s stole it all from Bill. You can't even compare the two? Bill was a genius, and Leary was just a thief. Hope he cries himself to sleep every night over what he did.
Yeah you're not alone. I also used to like The Witcher, but then I learned of Elric. I really need to be more cautious.