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Sam Kinison: Comedian
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Born in Yakima, Washington, Kinison later attended high school in East Peoria, Illinois. He ... lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma for a while with his parents who still live there. He was originally a preacher before becoming a comedian. Recordings of his sermons reveal that he used a "fire and brimstone" style, punctuated with shouts similar to the ones he would later use in his stand-up routines. He attended Pinecrest Bible Training Center in Salisbury Center New York. He was forced to leave preaching when he divorced his first wife, at which time he took up comedy.
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Vitale and moschita (or whatever his name is) confuse each other and fall silent, Kinison starts yelling unintentionally slamming the others heads on the table in a confused rage. Kinison discovers that the room is now empty and the person doing the judging is gone. Being a comedian Kinison only acts before crowds and he falls silent. They look outside and see a croud gathered around little ceaser who is using his fighting skills he gained in the roman legion to defeat the noid. He leads the crowd inside and the croud chants "We claim this pizza contest for ceaser!" And the pizza boxes do talk, they say "PIZZA, PIZZA."
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Kinison might be considered a "heavy metal comedian," since he was occasionally accompanied by a touring band; he ... had a prodigious appetite for drugs and alcohol. In 1988, he recorded a novelty version of The Troggs' "Wild Thing." One of his albums featured four songs performed by him and his band, and during one notable The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson performance, he delivered what began as a straightforward version of Elvis Presley's Are You Lonesome Tonight, which descended into angry ranting during the spoken breakdown.
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Jimmy Shubert, comic: Sam was the first rock ’n’ roll comedian. He was the first guy to kind of cross over and have all those guys like Tommy Lee in his music video for “Wild Thing.”
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Kinison was famous for his raunchy humor and wild, colorful outfits. A former revival-style preacher, his standup routines were most often characterized by intense, angry ranting in the vein of his friend and fellow comedian Bill Hicks, and ... punctuated by his trademark primal scream.
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[T]here was no question what separated Kinison from the Andrew Dice Clays who sprang up after him. "Intelligence," says political satirist and stand-up comedian Barry Crimmins. "That’s why Kinison could be annoying, because you knew he was smarter than some of the views he was advocating. And you ... saw the humanity in him a lot."
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