Bill Hicks—brilliant, funny, dead—has a massive box set out through Ryko right now called Essential, collecting two CDs of stand-up recordings as well as two DVDs full of live footage, interviews, and TV appearances. But perhaps the most essential part of The Essential Collection is that gives a proper revival to Ninja Bachelor Party, a martial-arts spoof that Hicks made with regular cohorts Kevin Booth and David Johndrow over the course of 10 years in Austin and Houston, Texas. For nearly two decades now,
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