With everyone having Google in their pocket at all times, we’d finally have reached a point where we could put this whole urban legend thing behind us. But lo and behold, here we are in 2025 with people still thinking that Steve from Blue’s Clues died from a heroin overdose decades ago. Don’t even get us started with Little Mikey from the Life cereal commercials dying from a fatal mixture of Pop Rocks and Coke. Both of them are alive and well, by the way—the last we checked, at least. While we’re in this area, we thought we’d take a look at some of the more persistent myths out there, particularly the ones that have affected the world of comedy. Such as…

4. Bill Hicks is Alex Jones

Texas stand-up hero Bill Hicks died in 1994 at just 32 years old after a brief battle with pancreatic cance

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