Letterman fully capitulates to the mother of the late, great Bill Hicks.
On Friday, Letterman brought in comedian Bill Hicks's mother to apologize to her personally for having, in 1993, cut what would have been Hicks's final appearance (his 12th) on the talk show.
Hicks died several months later of pancreatic cancer.
Letterman then showed the controversial clip, and while he said Friday it was his decision to ban it, a number of commentators at the time, including Hicks himself and John Lahr, writing for The New Yorker, speculated that the segment was spiked by the show's sponsors or by its then executive producer Robert Morton.
That's my question. Why? Here's the clip:
Some of Hicks' tamer stuff, really. Sometimes I think it's good that he died when he did. There's just no way he could have survived another Bush Administration.