Chicagoist: Contest: Denis Leary at The Chicago Theatre

Nicholas

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:28:48 -0600

I think Clark9201 below answers this quite well.

Stealth

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:20:12 -0600

Wasn't Denis Leary always an acerbic, ranting, smoking comedian? At least he always appeared that way, and I remember seeing him in the days of the brick-wall-background comedy club tv shows.

tc3

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:04:10 -0600

I've never fully understood the outrage over Leary vs Hicks. You said yourself that you still think DL is funny, but Hicks has been dead for 15 years, so that's 15 years that Leary has been funny without having Hicks to steal from correct? Personally, I think they were both great back in the early 90's and having heard lots of content from both, I think they had a couple similar bits buried in sets that were otherwise stylistically pretty different from one another.

clark9201

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:15:38 -0600

When asked why he quit smoking, Bill Hicks replied, "I just wanted to see if Denis would, too." RIP Bill!

Nicholas

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:54:23 -0600

The main difference today between DL and Dennis Miller is that DL is still funny. Man, what happened to Miller? He went all Fox News on us and became completely unfunny. Still, cannot forgive DL for ripping off Bill Hicks.