http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2009/02/02/bill-hicks-unaired-letterman-set-un-unaired-now-that-its-finally-aired/ The blog by and for comedy nerds. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:57:35 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2009/02/02/bill-hicks-unaired-letterman-set-un-unaired-now-that-its-finally-aired/comment-page-1/#comment-37030 Chelsea Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:39:24 +0000 http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=5440#comment-37030 Great that he finally apologized but about 16 years too late. Bill Hicks was a visionary and an artist and the fact that Dave caved to the right wing extremists in 93 makes the Sarah Palin Flack he suffered recently seem fair play turnabout, however ridiculous & misinformed. It took Bill Hicks 16 years to get a formal apology from David Letterman - it took Palin what, a week? That seems fair and balanced. Right wing extremism has a firm foothold on US media even today, but humanity progresses regardless. This is the best testament to the message of visionaries like Bill Hicks - you can blackout the message and shoot the messenger, but evolution will triumph eventually, regardless. Great that he finally apologized but about 16 years too late. Bill Hicks was a visionary and an artist and the fact that Dave caved to the right wing extremists in 93 makes the Sarah Palin Flack he suffered recently seem fair play turnabout, however ridiculous & misinformed. It took Bill Hicks 16 years to get a formal apology from David Letterman – it took Palin what, a week? That seems fair and balanced. Right wing extremism has a firm foothold on US media even today, but humanity progresses regardless. This is the best testament to the message of visionaries like Bill Hicks – you can blackout the message and shoot the messenger, but evolution will triumph eventually, regardless.

]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2009/02/02/bill-hicks-unaired-letterman-set-un-unaired-now-that-its-finally-aired/comment-page-1/#comment-22794 dukerayburn Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:58:39 +0000 http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=5440#comment-22794 From the sound in the clip it sounded like less than a dozen people cheering at the Absolutely Disgusting line. That's a really small number in Letterman's audience of hundreds. From the sound in the clip it sounded like less than a dozen people cheering at the Absolutely Disgusting line. That's a really small number in Letterman's audience of hundreds.

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