Alex Jones And Bill Hicks, Separated At Birth?

February 26th 2015, marked the 21st anniversary of the untimely death of comedian, writer and social critic Bill Hicks. If you’re not familiar with the late stand-up’s work, just go to YouTube, search for his name.

Hicks ruthlessly skewered consumerism, popular culture, anti-intellectualism, politics and the hypocrisy of religion – all before his untimely death at the age of 32. While Hicks was unabashed in his disgust for modern entertainment, the Gulf War and the meddling of social conservatives, he was also something of a conspiracy theorist.

He regularly went off on stage about the “official story” behind the JFK assassination, as well as making allusions to government mind control, CIA plots, and the botched raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. Twenty years after his death – there's a theory that he didn’t die, but faked his cancer and re-emerged some time later under a new persona: conspiracy theorist and Infowars head Alex Jones.

The idea that Hicks might have reinvented himself as Alex Jones has a few aspects going for it.

– Hicks and Jones both spent their formative years in Texas, with Hicks’ family moving there when he was seven and Jones born in Dallas.

– Both share a penchant for exposing perceived government plots, conspiracies and false “official stories.”

– They have similar facial features, with ruddy cheeks, high foreheads, drooping eyes and near-identical teeth.

– While Hicks would be 53 in 2015, and Jones is 41, Jones looks much older than he is.

– Hicks died in 1994, and Jones first appeared on the scene just a few years later, becoming a local favorite as a radio talk show host in Austin in 1996. 

– Both love music.

Additionally, they both spent a large amount of time talking about the Waco incident, with Jones campaigning to get the Branch Davidian church rebuilt.

– The two never appear to have met, but share a connection in Hicks’ childhood friend and collaborator Kevin Booth, who would go on to become a cameraman for Jones.

So did Hicks reinvent himself as Alex Jones? 

The idea of Bill Hicks faking his death and returning as Alex Jones started when someone noticed their physical similarities and shared belief in conspiracies. After all, plenty of other celebrities are thought to have faked their death – why not one more?

Hicks was only 32 at the time of his death, had been performing in comedy clubs half his life. He’d been on Letterman, released two albums, opened for the band Tool, toured the US extensively and was a major star in England. He spoke of transitioning into something major before his death.

So is Alex Jones actually Bill Hicks after a little surgery? Only Bill Hicks or let's say Alex Jones knows for sure.

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