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Career. Kinison began his career in Houston, Texas, where he performed in small clubs. He became a member of a comedic group at the Comedy Workshop, known as the Texas Outlaw Comics, that included Bill Hicks, Ron Shock, Riley Barber, Steve Epstein, Andy Huggins, John Farneti, [9] and Jimmy Pineapple.
Apr 26, 2022 · Kinison, who managed to stumble from the wreck, died at the site of the crash. He was 38. If there was one person who epitomized the excesses of the late '80s/early '90s Hair Metal movement, it's none other than comedian/former preacher Sam Kinison.
Apr 12, 1992 · Sam Kinison, a former tent preacher who gained fame as a shrieking and often insulting stand-up comedian, was killed Friday night in a head-on automobile crash on a desert highway near...
Apr 3, 2014 · Sam Kinison was an American comedian best known for his crass humor and trademark scream. The Grammy-nominated comedian received his first break from fellow comedian Rodney Dangerfield....
Jan 14, 2022 · This video is a collection of some of Sam Kinison's best live stand-up comedy performances. Samuel Burl Kinison was a stand-up comedian and actor. A former Pentecostal preacher, h...
Apr 4, 1997 · Sam Kinison died in the desert, talking to God. The high-decibel comic and former Pentecostal preacher was driving U.S. Highway 95 to a sold-out run in Laughlin, Nev., on the evening of April...
Apr 20, 2012 · Comedy. Icon: Sam Kinison. He was the hell-raising preacher who swapped sermons for stand-up - where no subject was sacred - and who was praised and damned in equal measure. With next month...
Sam Kinison was a popular stand-up comedian from Yakima, Washington, mainly active in the 1980s and the early 1990s. He also had a few acting roles in film and television. His only recurring role was that of Hugh, the main character's alter ego in the short-lived sitcom "Charlie Hoover" (1991).
Jun 12, 1992 · We remember Sam Kinison -- The comic, who wrestled with drugs and despair, seemed to be turning a corner before he died. By Jane Wollman Rusoff. Published on June 12, 1992 04:00AM EDT. ”That’s...
Apr 26, 2021 · Samuel Burl Kinison took the world of American stand-up comedy by storm in the 1980s, becoming an inspirational and influential figure to a whole generation of comedians still active today. He had a rock star sensibility, with a love of hedonism and a subversive attitude toward his own audiences.
