About The Late Comedian Kinison, Sam

Aggression, anger, and raunchy humor, along with his wild colorful getups – Comedian Kinison Sam, the former revival-style preacher. He proclaimed he was a deeply religious guy though religion and Christ were among his favorite stand-up topics. Also talking about marriage, gays, sex, end to world hunger, breaking up with his girlfriend, comedian Kinison Sam is known for his intense rants punctuated by his trademark primal scream as loud as his on-stage dogma. This guy was vulgar.

However comedian Kinison Sam was indeed once a serious “fire and brimstone” preacher. He preached originally until he was forced to leave the task after he divorced his wife. On November 1985 he made his breakthrough comedy performance on the November 14, 2006 episode of Late Night with David Letterman where Letterman introduced him to the audience with “Brace yourself…not kidding…Sam Kinison!” His prodigious appetite for drugs and alcohol are what nourished his performances. Yet he was a “rock and roll” comedian.

Occasionally accompanied by a touring band, comedian Kinison Sam would later have a hit song novelty version of “Wild Thing’” with a video that “played like a who’s who of rock artists”. One of his albums also includes a straightforward then angry ranting descending version of Elvis Presley’s Are You Lonesome Tonight performed at The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. And with the kind of women he attracted, Sam seemed a romantic at heart in contrast. His sketches mostly expressed a dim view of love on after his string of failed relationships. Another distinction is that Sam was a friend of social critic, satirist, fellow stand-up Bill Hicks.

His hit spontaneous moments though were stand-out. One of which was during his frequent appearance on Howard Stern’s radio show where he made an angry phone-call on-air to Bobcat Goldthwait and embarrassed comedienne Judy Tenuta. Also as a result of making a (failed) on-air promise to bring to the show the Bon Jovi band with whom Stern was feuding, comedian Kinison Sam made his most notorious stunt in the form of a highly-entertaining on-air feud with Stern. Comedian Gilbert Gottfried and Stern salvaged an emotional phone-conversation between Stern and Kinison on which both were calling each other “man” and “dude” bringing everyone into stitches and so eventually resulting in Kinison’s apology.

Comedian Kinison Sam also had other reforms. He had been getting himself clean and sober, had took the pulpit for the last time, and had married his girlfriend Malika Souiri until 6-days later, without his seatbelt on, his white car was hit by a 17-year-old drunk-driver in a Mohave Dessert highway near Needles California. Born December 8, 1953 in Yakima Washington, comedian Kinison, Samuel ‘Sam’ Burl died April 10, 1929 at age 38.