Ethics

Letterman Makes Amends for Hicks

By Ed Brayton

Here's the video of David Letterman bringing on the mother of Bill Hicks and finally playing the set that Hicks did on his show in 1993 that was cut out of the show for being too controversial. I think Letterman has felt terrible about this for a long time. And I give him great credit for taking full responsibility for it when it was really the fault of his producer at the time. Watch it to the end to hear Letterman talk about it all.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 07, 2009 (boomark / email).