comedy club. >> guys, if you could blow yourselves, ladies, you'd be in this room alone right now. watching an empty stage. like, i never saw bill hicks live, but i have firsthand accounts from friends saying, there's no one better. >> he was booked on the late show with david letterman in 1993, and he did his set, which had been approved by the bookers in advance. >> people annoy me. what's annoying me is these pro-life people, you ever look at their faces? i'm pro-life. they don't look it, they just exude it. you see them trying to go to an orphanage to adopt a kid. we're pro life. we're here to adopt. kids are like don't pick me. >> did fine in front of that audience, and then after the set, robert morton, got on the phone, some conference upstairs and they decided to cut it from the episode.