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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

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Sam Kinison
Age: 38 †
Born: 1953
Born: December 8
Died: 1992
Died: April 10
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Preacher
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Yakima
Washington
Samuel Burl Kinison
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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.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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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.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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How does a guy look at another guy's hairy ass, and find love?
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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.
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I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three weeks! My friends, if you can come up with thirteen grand, you don't have a problem yet.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock n roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pay your house payment. That's a tough crowd.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
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There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.
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I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
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Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid.
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So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.
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