Bill Hicks' Unaired Letterman Set Un-Unaired Now that It's Finally Aired

Back in 1993, shortly before he died, Bill Hicks taped one of his last stand-up sets for The Late Show with David Letterman, but the host ultimately decided not to air it. This past Friday, Letterman finally aired the set and invited Mary Hicks, mother to the late great Bill Hicks, on the show. I love how the occasionally curmudgeonly Letterman melts at Mary's motherly guilting.

As Dave goes on to point out, the set dates very well. Unfortunately, what doesn't age well is the unenlightened 1993 audience cheering to the moment when Hicks satirically calls the books about gay parents "absolutely disgusting." But what did they know? Back then people still believed pump up sneakers would make you jump higher. At least now we have the decency to pretend we don't hate gays. We just hate them marrying each other and/or requesting equal rights.

I'm pretty sure if we sent Mary Hicks to Washington to guilt politicians like she did with Letterman, we could clear up every single gay right's issue immediately.