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Sam Kinison [1953-1992] American

Rank: 101
Comedian

Samuel Burl "Sam" Kinison was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was known for his intense, harsh and politically incorrect humor.

Funny, Morning, Society, Space

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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'		101
My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!		102
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.	Society, Space	103
Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.		104
With any other celebrity, people come up and say, 'Hey, I really like your work.' But with my fans, when they see me, they don't even say hello. They just go, 'AWWWWWGHGHHHGHGHRRR!'		105
What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?	Funny	106
Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.		107
When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.		108
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.		109
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.		110
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.		111
I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.		112
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.		113
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 pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.	Morning	114
I'm attracted to heartbreakers.		115
If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.		116
Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.		117
I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.		118
AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.		119
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.		120
Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.		121
It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.		122
Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.		123
Everything can be satirized.		124
I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.		125
I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.		126
I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.		201
I'd rather entertain people than offend them.		202
If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.		203
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.		204
I have lived a carnal life.		205
I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.		206
Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!		207
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.		208
So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.		209
I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.		210
I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.		211
Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.		212
Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.		213
I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.		214
Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.		215

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