Same, I had read in the "American Scream" Bill Hicks biography that the incident directly inspired The Larry Sanders episode.  (Although given that many of Hicks' peers regard the book as extremely distorted, I guess it's not much of a surprise that the author was incorrect about this information).  And yeah, that…

Fun fact, the writers based the premise of this episode on the Bill Hicks/David Letterman fiasco: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…