Charley Crockett

Watered down Dangerfield.

But it was getting people to laugh.

And then Hicks went on stage and immediately started bombing.

Immediately he opened up with saying that he's tired of performing and tired of going up and...

telling people a bunch of shit you couldn't possibly think up on your own.

But the comics were dying, and there was like 300 people in the room.

By the time he was done performing, there was 50.

There was 50, and there was maybe me and my friend Greg Fitzsimmons were in the back of the room just dying laughing, and maybe 10 comics.

We had all come to see Hicks because we had heard about him.

And then I saw him a month later at the Comedy Connection and he fucking murdered.

The Comedy Connection was this little tiny club.

It was like 150 seats, real low ceilings.

Where?

Boston as well.

This is when I was first starting.

So this is like 1988.

And it was before he had really popped.

I had heard about him from the Rodney Dangerfield HBO special.

So Rodney Dangerfield had these young comedian specials.

Rodney was the best at like –