While he does offer sympathy for struggling artists who need the money when they're starting out, he lambasts multi-millionaires who sell themselves to push product for ethically dodgy multi-nationals just so they can add to their millions.
The rest of the routine is scathing about George Michael hawking
Diet Coke and is probably one of the few things that is too obscene to be
printed here.
I’ve always agreed with Bill Hicks on most things and the latest set of
adverts pushing Sky and its various products reminds me of his argument.
One advert features national treasure Joanna
Lumley, and another features a faux conversation between Ruth Jones (of Gavin and Stacey fame) having ‘a perfectly natural chat’
with actor chum Robert Lindsay about how brilliant Sky’s various services are.
For me, one of the truths in life is that the only thing you ever really
own is your name. And these ‘artists’ have sold theirs to promote the TV arm of a multi-national whose newspapers are alleged to have hacked into the mobile phones of dead
British soldiers and at least one murdered schoolgirl. And they must be aware
of this but they still choose to ally themselves with it anyway.
Corporate whores selling themselves for the Murdoch buck. Well done…
