Samuel Burl Kinison
1953 - 1992
A former revival-style preacher, Sam Kinison embarked on a stand-up comedy career shortly after divorcing his first wife and got his first big break on Rodney Dangerfield’s Ninth Annual Young Comedians Special, which aired on HBO in 1984. Known for his intense style and trademark scream, Kinison unleashed an outrageous and uncensored form of comedy that included angry rants and attacks against conventional norms. In 1986, Kinison had a memorable role as “Professor Terguson” in Back to School, which starred Rodney Dangerfield. Kinison, who was a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show, also appeared as Al Bundy’s guardian angel in an 1989 episode of Married with Children. Just six days after marrying his girlfriend Malika Souiri in 1992, Kinison was killed in a car accident on U.S. 95 in California. His epitaph reads: “In another time and place he would have been called prophet.”
On Cocaine
"There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out."
On Marriage
"I was married for two fucking years! Hell would be like Club Med!"
On the Resurrection
"Jesus is the only guy that ever came back from the dead that didn’t scare the fuck out of everybody! He’s the only guy that ever crawled out of the grave where people didn’t go, ooohhh! I just saw some fucker crawl out of his grave! I don’t believe I’m seeing this shit! Did you see that? This guy just crawled out of his box through the earth! . . . Jesus comes back, he doesn’t get any pressure, no static. Nobody’s upset. He climbs out, he’s walking around, nobody’s upset. They can eat with him and everything . . ."
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