| Dangerous | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Bill Hicks |
| Cover: | Bill_hicks_-_dangerous_(front).jpg |
| Released: | 1990 |
| Venue: | Caroline's Seaport and Village Gate, New York City |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Length: | 54:21 |
| Label: | Invasion |
| Producer: | Peter Casperson |
| Next Title: | Relentless |
| Next Year: | 1992 |
Dangerous is the first live album by American stand-up comedian and satirist Bill Hicks, released in 1990 by Invasion Records. Much of the material was previously performed in Hicks' Sane Man special in 1989.[1]
Hicks explained the title to the Los Angeles Times by referencing a quote he attributed to Thomas Jefferson, although the veracity of the quote is not confirmed.
[Jefferson's] quote was "No idea is dangerous to society wherein that idea can be openly discussed." That's why the album is called "Dangerous," because I'm discussing drugs and things drugs do.[2]
In 1997, Rykodisc issued remastered versions of both Dangerous and its follow-up, Relentless (1992), on CD, as well as the posthumous albums Arizona Bay and Rant in E-Minor.[3]