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Sam Kinison: Death
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When comedian Sam Kinison was on fire, anyone in his path was wise to watch out. His genius seared foes and fans alike, transforming the serious into the seriously funny, the bizarre into the brilliantly hilarious. In this performance, one of the last before his death, Kinison skewers everything from caffeine to contraception and marriage to money, sparing no comic expense and even poking fun at himself in his pursuit of endless laughs.
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Kinison was working to become clean and sober in the months before his death and he married his girlfriend Malika Souiri in 1992. Just six days after the wedding, Kinison's white Pontiac Firebird Trans Am was struck by a seventeen-year-old drunk driver on US 95, four miles north of where it intersects Interstate 40, near Fort Mohave, Arizona and Needles, California. He was not wearing a seat belt, and his chest struck the steering wheel upon impact.His best friends J.J. Wall and Carl LaBove were in the van behind Sam. Sam got out of his car and fell to the ground Carl picked him up and held him until help came. As they sat on the road Carl reports that Sam was looking down the road and laughed and was talking to somebody and said no not now. Then he laughed and said "no, not yet" and laughed again then he said "ok, ok". He then died in the arms of his best friend.
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Sam Kinison: Family Entertainment Hour: 1 X 60 Broadcast special produced in 1991 for HBO. This was Sam’s last televised concert one year prior to his untimely and sudden death. Filmed at the famed Wilton Theatre in Hollywood, this concert left no one standing. With equal wit and stinging assaults, nobody was safe. Watch a rare performer, at his peak, delivery a performance that is truly unmatched.
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Hicks and Kinison didn’t see much of each other in the years before a car crash took Kinison’s life in 1992. They’d had a falling out somewhere along the way, and Sam’s death left it unresolved. And when Hicks died two years later of pancreatic cancer, the tragedy was complete. Two of America’s most cutting comic voices were silenced.
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Howard Stern did a tribute to Kinison for several hours a few days after his death, and the show featured a song parody, "The Sound of Kinison" (featuring the melody from Simon & Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence). Portions of the 1992 tribute show have been replayed at least once during 2006 on Stern's satellite radio show on Sirius Radio.
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