What Bill Hicks said was 'let me tell you something right now, you can print this in stone and don't you ever forget it, any performer who ever sells a product on television is for now and all eternity removed from the artistic world'. Bill Hicks was wrong. There, I said it.

Music and advertising; there's been lots of chat about Bill Hicks of late and his bit about how artists who advertise are no longer artists but he famously talks about how artists who promote brands are basically, and there's no nice way of putting this, sucking Satan's glans.

As the Fringe drew to a close, The Huffington Post UK invited three professional comedians, all hotly tipped as rising stars of the industry, to sit d...