Sam Kinison
Sam Kinison
Samuel Burl "Sam" Kinisonwas an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was known for his intense, harsh and politically incorrect humor. A former Pentecostal preacher, he performed stand-up routines that were most often characterized by an intense style, similar to charismatic preachers, and punctuated by his trademark scream...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth8 December 1953
CityYakima, WA
CountryUnited States of America
Sam Kinison quotes about
What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
With any other celebrity, people come up and say, 'Hey, I really like your work.' But with my fans, when they see me, they don't even say hello. They just go, 'AWWWWWGHGHHHGHGHRRR!'
Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!
John Goodman isn't fat. He's in a category beyond fat. What does one call it? Whalelike.
Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock n roll and ex-wives. In that order.
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.