Bill Hicks' Network Television Debut | Letterman

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The young comedian makes his first of many appearances with Dave.
(From "Late Night," air date: 12/5/84)
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@Goatchild90 Год назад

One of my favourite stand-up comics of all time. Rant in E-Minor changed my life.

@corey6393 Год назад

I watched a lot of Letterman in the 80's ( I was 10 when he got this show), and this is where I was first introduced to the genius that is Bill Hicks. Oddly enough, it was around this same time I was introduced to Black Sabbath. My life was changed forever by both exposures.

@thelettermanpodcast Год назад

This is a special moment.

@rogerc23 Год назад

Did you live in a cardboard box to that point or something ?

@corey6393 Год назад

@@rogerc23 I was born in 1971.

@rogerc23 Год назад

@@corey6393 no worries. I’m just wondering how this changed your life so profoundly?

@ralphhilton-bc9yf 11 месяцев назад

So awesome, I love you

@clashfan2875 Год назад

I saw him at the Comedy Workshop in Houston but it was 85 or 86 so a little later than this. He was not this clean live. Funny stuff and ahead of the curve for sure.

@Sisyphean1775 Год назад

The fact that he was just a few days shy of 23 here blows my damn mind. I've never met (nor was I!) a 22-year-old who looked, thought, spoke, or carried himself like that. What a massive loss.

@user-mz6qv5bz5p 7 месяцев назад

I didn't even graduate college till I was 31.

@James-ll3jb 6 месяцев назад

I was like that at 22. Alot of boomers were. This is how we talked to ourselves

@powertothepeople4712 6 месяцев назад

This dude is Alex Jones

@Plethora_of_Paucity 5 месяцев назад

@@powertothepeople4712😂 Yeah nah really, he’s actually Chevy Chase 🤣

@bustercherry8734 4 месяца назад

@@Plethora_of_Paucity He's alex 100%. If you could get your head out of your ass long enough, you would see that.

@dealerovski82 7 месяцев назад

23 years of age int this clip. amazing

@donmackie6086 Год назад

He was a genius. Modern day Lenny Bruce. Thanks for this gang!

@eddyspecter Год назад

Always always always giving love to Bill Hicks. Thank you Dave.

@flowpoi5864 3 месяца назад

Yea like when he didn't air the episode until Bill was dead.

@thelettermanpodcast Год назад

Outstanding. Bill had both famous and infamous moments with the show, and it’s so great seeing and celebrating all of them with the benefit of hindsight. The history of this clip is mind boggling.

@denvergrantz2480 Год назад

Bill Hicks was my all-time favorite comedian, and Frank Zappa was my all-time favorite musician. Frank died of cancer in December 1993. Bill died of cancer in February 1994.

@dinosaursr Год назад

Damn cancer is killing left and right. Lost friends and dealt with it too.

@DrLoverLover 9 месяцев назад

Stop having favourites

@deezhole Год назад

One of my Favorite Bills of all time. I know his spirit is making the great beyond laugh. ❤️Love and dearly miss you Bill❤️

@BoatrekLive Год назад

People tell me to smile, which makes me never want to smile.

@r3b3lvegan89 Год назад

Also between Carlin and Hicks, I don’t care who disagrees, but Hicks took it to the absolute edge with his bits and story telling. Carlin was already GOAT status but I’ve never heard Carlin tell the entire advertising/marketing industry to flat out kill themselves and fantasizing killing the politicians and billionaires….George called them out but not like Bill.

@user-mz6qv5bz5p 7 месяцев назад

Carlin is still better just because of Hicks death at a young age. But the best to both of them.

@El.Duder-ino 10 месяцев назад

One of the greatest comedians we've seen so far folks. RIP Bill, it's just a ride... ;)

@AllanAdamson Год назад

thanks for posting this

@drewlovelyhell4892 4 месяца назад

"Sit down next to me so that I can not ask you any follow up questions."

@ianhamilton2476 3 месяца назад

But its Herbie Mann tomorrow

@MrZythFx Год назад

Love how he had a cig going when they came back xD classic Bill

@simonp37 Год назад

True artist we lost too soon.

@josephlawson9950 Год назад

if bill hicks was today he said stop telling me im alex jones

@benmaurer8055 4 месяца назад

And talk about how Alex fianced the 1/6 fake news storming

@MikeSpuches Год назад

hilarious and profound and this was from the 80s. he was such a legend

@crispyjeb Год назад

Love you Bill.

@billhickswasright8076 Год назад

Always speaking truth.

@joaoyapur1247 Год назад

the God of Stand Up Comedy.-

@richardgullick1867 Год назад

You can see why some conspiracy theorists think this is Alex Jones lol

@bustercherry8734 4 месяца назад

Yeah, because it is. Way too much proof for him not to be.

@felixftw4702 3 месяца назад

alex jones doesn't even look like bill. i'd wager that gabe newell is matt groening more than that@@bustercherry8734

@p0llenp0ny 2 месяца назад

@@bustercherry8734 He looks nothing like him. At all.

@nuncapasaran9374 Месяц назад

It's interesting to see the evolution of Bill to the ranting lunatic later in his career that we all know and love lol. It could also be that late night is more tame by nature, but I do think he grew into a more chaotic and righteous anger as time went on.

@odradekk Год назад

That’s the America that I love

@SANITIZEDINC 3 месяца назад

Legend.

@jeffclement2468 Год назад

This must be the consolation appearance after he famously got bumped from the show at the last minute months(?) earlier.

@thelettermanpodcast Год назад

If you’re referring to the appearance he made that never aired originally, that happened years later on Late Show.

@PikesvilleAl 7 месяцев назад

Alex Jones

@phildirt3 Год назад

He was dark and people didn’t get it

@r3b3lvegan89 Год назад

You spelled BRILLIANT wrong it’s ok tho

@playdiscgolf1546 Год назад

He looks so small and fit here. This must be super early on

@victoriasalvador7633 10 месяцев назад

❤

@Goatchild90 Год назад

R.I.P. Bill Hicks

@MsHulstein 6 месяцев назад

Wish I saw that back in the days on tv in The Netherlands. It would have saved my puberty life. Now I had to figure it all out for myself. Wasn't all that bad btw 😎

@hollywood423 Год назад

This is when we first met I took him to the exs party in New York

@goldmasters5393 Год назад

At the beginning of Alex Jones new carrer, it was really easy for me to see hicks! Sam kinison another fake death. he was so funny. However he still lives on as Michael Keaton, billy idol, Elton John, because he is David Cassidy

@infowarriorone Год назад

Bill Hicks was ahead by a century. I think Dave could see that too.

@logan1867 Год назад

Dave literally censored Hick's

@infowarriorone Год назад

@@logan1867 The network did.

@logan1867 Год назад

@@infowarriorone he literally took responsibility for the ban

@dongiller Год назад

@@logan1867 A mistake rectified in 2009.

@infowarriorone Год назад

@@logan1867 He had to, it was his show.

@dannydorko7075 9 месяцев назад

I love Bill Hicks, he's one of my favourite stand ups but good lord he recycled a lot of his jokes!

@Stikibits 9 месяцев назад

Goatboy!

@Sportsfan94 Месяц назад

Young Alex Jones

@DylanWeader 4 месяца назад

Funny to see him not swear

@jeperstone Месяц назад

Hicks was King of the Midwits

@ZEN.WOLF.SPIRIT 11 месяцев назад

Pretty sure thats Alex Jones..

@mellow5123 Год назад

He seems rather angry.

@MAGaBAMA_84 11 месяцев назад

So does Alex Jones! Lol

@eddieschneider1947 11 месяцев назад

No -antiperspirant in 84?

@playdiscgolf1546 Год назад

Ahead of his time by a mile

@VeganSemihCyprus33 Год назад

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥

@mikebonadio 8 месяцев назад

F Letterman

@morrison1405 5 месяцев назад

This guy is always lying and just arrogant.

@bustercherry8734 4 месяца назад

Still is...

@dunebillyofswanbeach4294 2 месяца назад

He doesn’t like you either.

@Allen.Christian Год назад

Oh, back when he actually told jokes. Interesting.

@OriginalGabriel Год назад

Dude's material was cut heavily; this appearance was after he had been cut from appearing, at the last second, multiple times; Dave even had his mother on the show after his death to apologize.

@corey6393 Год назад

@@OriginalGabriel That happened much later in Bill's career. He was on this show many times over the next decade or so after this appearance.

@glenndouglas8822 Год назад

@@OriginalGabriel This was his first appearance ya tool 🤣😂

@tvtoms Год назад

@@glenndouglas8822 This, his first appearance, was only AFTER he'd been cut, multiple times.

@glenndouglas8822 Год назад

@@tvtoms No, that's incorrect. He was only told not to include wheelchair jokes which every comic on letterman had to adhere to at the time. He was NOT censored many a time during this appearance. Ok.

@DrLoverLover 9 месяцев назад

Lame act.