Bill Hicks: 25 years on from the cult comedian's big break

Inspirational comic visionary, revered in Britain yet ignored at home

Feature It's 25 years since Bill Hicks took the Montreal Just For Laughs comedy festival by storm with a blistering, intelligent comic set that was basically his, then new, debut album Dangerous. Within two years the semi-underground stand-up was a regular on British TV in-between successfully touring across the USA and Australia. And within three years he was dead - killed by pancreatic cancer just as the big time beckoned."