David letterman

David letterman
David letterman On October 1, 1993, Hicks’s routine went too far for Letterman, who decided not to air the segment. In the same theatre, in the fifties, Elvis was censored from the waist down; now Hicks had been banned from head up.Hicks’s outrage, bewilderment, and obsession is evident in a thirty-nine-page letter that he sent to me three months later, which recapitulates both his routine and the media politics going on around it. (You can read the letter starting on page 249 of “Love All the People,” a compilation of Hicks’s letters, lyrics, and routines.) He recounts his conversation with Robert Morton, the show’s producer, after he was told that his set had been cut from the show.