uh ladies and Gentlemen please give a nice welcome to the mother of the late great comedian Bill
Hicks the lovely Mary Hicks everyone thank you very much for uh being so gracious and
so generous to come and visit with us here so we could take a look at uh Bill's shot on the
program that never got on and and let me again if I haven't previously just apologize uh for the
heartache and and sadness that my decision caused to you and your family and of course uh made all
the worse by the knowledge that at the time Bill Bill was terribly terribly sick and not not many
people knew that did they they're a few very few and I appreciate you saying that and when he uh
when the diagnosis it was pancreatic cancer is it true that he moved back into home with you folks
yes he did yeah that must have been a wonderful time in an odd way of course odd way it was it was
a privilege and uh it it uh it was what I expected you know most people when they're sick want their
mother yeah so he came home of course you know he was continuing to uh go out I'm still working he
worked until January and and did you learn things about his life on the road as a comic that maybe
a mother doesn't want to know well I found out yeah and it should have curled my hair but it
didn't and uh yes he did he did try to tell me what he had been doing for from the time he left
home at 18. and some of it you know should have bothered me but at that time it didn't because
a new bill and he had come out of the bad part of the time that he had so I listened
and no and I would not have had him go through that if I had had my choice did you uh know early
on did he know early on that he wanted to be a comic I bet he knew maybe long before you knew
well he knew a long time before I knew he he always said when he was up until the time he
got interested in comedy that he was going to Texas A M to be a vet oh he loved animals and
that's what he wanted to do and then he he got interested in watching uh Johnny Carson
and he read books about Woody Allen so he got interested in that he said that he
saw Johnny Carson on TV and he thought Oh you mean you can make a living doing that
[Applause] yeah yeah and did he uh did he perform early or did could you looking back did you see
remember oh I see what he was doing he was trying his uh comedy on the family or you know parties
or stuff Dave there are no Showbiz people in our family so what he did we just thought was
our child doing that we certainly didn't think it would go into a career not for a long time
but uh where is your family from by the way we should mention it well that's uh hard to tell
because we moved so much but uh but we lived for 12 years in Houston which is where Bill
went through school and uh and that's where he got into comedy in Houston and did it
was his early material or maybe continuing was it about family did you recognize jokes
did you hear jokes about yourself well I didn't hear jokes about me for years but
I heard that that he was telling jokes about me and the rest of the family but [Applause]
on it you know that's all he knew when he first started that's right and did you would you go
see him perform when he was starting working in clubs and other venues oh no no he he said
that uh if we came he wouldn't go up so I I of course didn't know about comedy clubs and
I thought well how strange you know if you're on the program why don't you have to go up but
but uh but he so we didn't go he asked us not to so we didn't go and I will tell you something uh
he he asked his dad and me to go see a musician that he admired and so my husband said well bill
can we have dinner there and of course Bill thought that was real funny because that was
not the kind of place where they had served dinner right but uh we went and uh Bill did
not go with us he went with a group of friends and my husband and I sat at this little table
and some young man came and sat at the next table To Us by himself and he kept looking at us and
finally he said uh well what are y'all doing here because we were the only old people in there and
we said well we came to see this musician and I said well what are you doing here and he said
well he was a college student and on his way home he heard that this man was performing and
he liked him so he just came straight there but he couldn't couldn't understand why we
were there and then bill came over and spoke to us so you know I guess he realized why we were
there but anyway Bill pulled things like that off sometimes do you remember anything about
the musician you saw that oh yes yes how was he excellent excellent yeah what what kind of music
well can I tell his name well sure I think that well his name is Eric what is Eric's last name
Eric Johnson Eric Johnson very good have you ever heard of him no
Paul Eric Johnson is he is he a surfer Galveston on the Galveston
Coast of the Gulf of Mexico Galveston he could but I don't think so all right
I thought oh I think that how did you uh how did you feel about coming here tonight was was this
an easy decision for you to make I mean I was uh I thought I'm surprised that I accepted I I well I I
believe I'm surprised when anybody comes here no wasn't surprised but but part of me thought
well she has every reason not to come here that's right I had a lot of reasons not to come
and I thought about it and then I decided to come good I'm glad you're here and and again I I know I
can't make up for the damage that was caused but I hope symbolically this means something to you well
it does and and I will tell you that that was a very hard time 15 years ago when that happened and
I just will have to tell you that it was well I'm well aware of that I know I I don't know
personally how difficult it was but I can certainly now that I have a son I can certainly
imagine imagine what that you had to have a child today that's right okay what else you want to know
we I tell you what we're going to do Mary when we come back we're going to play the tape from
October 1st 1993. we'll be right back with Bill Hicks everybody here we go so this will be now
uh October 1st in 1993 and I think it's safe to say that some of the the references now I
mean 16 years ago are not going to seem perhaps all that contemporary but I bet it'll just be
fine have you you must have seen the videotape right this is not the first time you've seen it
no yeah it I haven't seen it recently yeah and and when you see it you must be very happy and
pleased to have seen it and sad also obviously really I mean I'm all of that yeah okay so we're
going to take a look here tonight and uh I I want you folks to enjoy this honestly uh here
he is now uh doing stand-up comedy on on this Sage stage in a segment uh that I had taken out
of our program October 1st 1993. here's the very funny Bill Hicks [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
thank you good evening very excited to be here tonight and I got some great
news today I finally got my own TV show coming out as a replacement show this fall
I think it's not a talk show don't worry
it's a half hour weekly show that I will host entitled let's hunt and kill Billy Ray Cyrus
thank you it's fairly self-explanatory each week we let the hounds of Hell loose
we chased that jar head no Talent cracker idiot all over the globe
so I finally catch that fruity Little ponytail of his pull him to his knees
put a shotgun in his mouth then we'll be back in 94 with let's hunt and kill Michael Bolton
also look out for our uh Vanilla Ice MC Hammer Marky Mark Christmas special and uh
I don't want to give away any surprises but Marky marks the first one we catch and kill on that show
cause his pants kept falling around his ankles and he couldn't run away I crossbow him right
in the ABS bring the whole kids the family and everything it's a Christmas Spectacular
I don't know what my deal is I'm like a 31 year old curmudgeon that's the deal you know I went to
a dance club the other day you know and uh dragged against my will you know and this girl asked me to
dance which I thought was hilarious you know would you like to dance you know I'm like yeah you read
my mind you know that's why I'm leaning in the darkest corner closest to the exit you know uh
I'm about to Boogie I'm about to cut a rug but it's weird women have this weird myth you can
tell the way a guy is in bed by how he is on a dance floor I think that's ridiculous what
does it matter you know what I mean if a guy is on a dance floor really getting into it
and join himself expressing himself what does it matter how he is in bed he's gay
[Applause]
real men don't dance they sit sweat and curse
speaking of homosexuality uh you know I consider myself fairly open-minded but something has come
to my attention I find absolutely shocking I don't know if you've heard about it these new
grade school books for children to teach them gay Lifestyles you know what I'm talking about
one of them is called Heather's two mommies the other is called Daddy's new roommate
I'm gonna have to draw the line here folks and say this is absolutely disgusting okay it is
grotesque and Evil
I'm talking about Daddy's new roommate uh Heather's two mommies is pretty cool I don't know
check that out they're hugging on page seven oh go mommies go go anyway it makes me miss my youth
people annoy me you know what's really annoying
me these pro-life people you ever look at their faces I'm pro-life
why don't they look at they just exude you know you see them trying to go to an orphanage and
adopt a kid and we're pro-life we're here to adopt kids are just oh don't pick me oh no Ollie gruel
15 to a bed no problem just uh keep Heather's two mommies coming and we're fine in here
I'm pro-life you know if you're really pro-life do me a favor don't lock arms and block Med
Clinics okay if you're so pro-life do me a favor lock arms and block cemeteries okay
let's see how committed you are to this idea she can't come in she was 98 she 'd buy a bus
we're gonna have her stuffed what are we gonna do with it
we're pro-life that's the same look smokers give you to I'm a non-smoker I'm a pro-life non-smoker
I'm getting that look a lot these days because I started smoking again and
at nine months without cigarette and I started again and I'm getting that look
you applauding me starting or stopping what are you the smoker said hey you're back yeah
non-smokers he's terrible I can't believe he started again why after nine months
I have this belief if that scenario is at all true when you die and you go to heaven and Saint Peter
meet you at the gate I have this belief the first thing he's going to ask you is you got a light
you mean y'all smoke here yeah that's why it's heaven these aren't clouds this is cigarette
smoke pal hell is a non-smoking section you want to look at them for a minute okay I can't believe
what they do to their bodies it's so smelly it smells like an ashtray why do they want me to
smell that God that's hellish exactly light up and come on in Hendrix is on harp tonight
so I've been traveling I was in Australia I was in Australia over Easter which was interesting
to note they celebrate Easter the same way we do commemorating the death and resurrection of
Jesus by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit left chocolate eggs in the night
why we're messed up as a race anybody got any clues I read the Bible can't find the
word bunny or chocolate anywhere in the book why those two things why not you know goldfish
left Lincoln Logs in your sock drawer you know just making stuff up go Hog Wild
but I think it's interesting to note how people act on religious beliefs you know
what I mean like a lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks nice sentiment
but you think when Jesus comes back he's really going to want to look at a cross
[Applause]
ow that may be why he hasn't shown up yet he's going man they're still wearing crosses Dad I'm
not going no they totally missed the point I'm not going forget it I'll go back as a bunny but uh
that's great he looks he looks tremendous and uh I've uh I've not seen that videotape or any
part of it since that night and seeing it now it raises the question what was
the matter with me what was I thinking that was just tremendous he if anything
says a great deal about me it says more about me as a guy than it says about Bill because there
was absolutely nothing wrong with that just just perfect and the fact that and I expected it to be
somewhat dated being that old man it's not it's just great he in fact I guess this speaks to the
uh a suggestion that he was way ahead of his time uh Mary this has been uh a good night for me and
I hope a good night for you it's been a very good night God bless you thank you very much
[Music] thank you [Music]