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Bill Hicks on Marketing

Tyrell Edwards · 520.6K views · 2015-01-12 · 2:43

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Overview

A short clip of Bill Hicks's stand-up bit telling marketers and advertisers to kill themselves, which is a harsh critique of advertising.

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A near-meme reference dropped in threads about advertising, tracking and adtech, often as shorthand for disdain of marketing.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2018–2023

Topics

Stand-up & sketch comedyProduct, marketing & sales
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What people said

ploum · 2023-02 · Recommendation

"Email marketer here." It’s "spammer". Changing the word doesn’t make what you do less awful. (and check this nice video: [VIDEO] )

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latexr · 2020-07 · Recommendation

> if someone says they’re in advertising I automatically hate them You might enjoy Bill Hicks’ take: [VIDEO]

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imiric · 2023-08 · Reference

If only people with jobs in industries that are not only useless, but harmful to society were this self-conscious. [VIDEO]

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