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15 years later, Bill Hicks gets his David Letterman appearance

Posted: January 30, 2009

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The late comic David Hicks, famous for being the perhaps the only person cut from a David Letterman show, finally made the cut tonight, 15 years after he appeared.

David Hicks made his one and only Letterman appearance in October 1993, before passing away from pancreatic cancer in early 1994.

David Letterman invited David Hick’s mother on the show, and apologized for the cut 15 years before. “Let me again apologize for the heartache and sadness my decision caused your family,” Letterman told Hicks’ mother. “I appreciate you saying that,” she said.

In the clip, Hicks talks about religion and the pro-life movement. “If you’re so pro-life, do me a favor. Don’t lock arms and block medical clinics. If you’re so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.” On Christians wearing crucifixes: “Do you think when Jesus comes back he’s gonna want to see a cross?”

Here’s the same routine shown on Letterman, all these years later.

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11 Archived Responses to “ 15 years later, Bill Hicks gets his David Letterman appearance ”

  1. Cabmax
    Jan 31, 2009

    Hey Duncan, David Hicks? A little too Australian?

  2. Duncan Riley
    Jan 31, 2009

    Cabmax
    wrong Hicks. You're thinking of Terry and David Hicks. Bill Hicks was an American comedian.

  3. Matt
    Jan 31, 2009

    Maybe we get this Bill Hicks inertia coming on… People should watch his other stuff, bootlegs, much, much funnier..

    True Hero..

  4. Cabmax
    Jan 31, 2009

    That's what I thought.

  5. Seamus
    Jan 31, 2009

    I think Cabmax was referring to the fact you've referred to Bill Hicks as 'David Hicks' throughout the body of the story. :-)

  6. Mike
    Jan 31, 2009

    What about his appearance on David Letterman in 1989? I think this was his one and only pulled performance.

  7. Wow
    Jan 31, 2009

    HIcks was on Letterman 11 other times. Dave even mentioned it in the set-up portion before the clip. This was not “his one and only Letterman appearance”.

    Oh and his name was BILL Hicks…..

    How many ways can you screw up a 200 word article….?

  8. Steve
    Jan 31, 2009

    Just watched the clip.

    Sorry he died (and pancreatic cancer is about one of the most horrible ways to go that I can think of) but if that was his best bit, he wasn't very funny.

    I wasn't offended, mind you. I just didn't laugh.

    Maybe times were different then.

  9. Rhysole
    Jan 31, 2009

    Wow I didn't even know that terror suspect David Hicks did stand up. I can't imagine he would have been all that funny.

  10. Mark
    Feb 2, 2009

    Um… 'Bill' Hicks?? Was David some kind interloper? Come on Inquisitor. Proof-reading and fact-checking. It's bread and butter.

  11. Mark
    Feb 2, 2009

    PS: Just un-subscribed Inquisitr from my reader. You guys really have to up your game. Not the first time careless articles have graced my screen under your banner.