American - Comedian | December 8, 1953 - April 10, 1992
If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
Sam Kinison
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Everything can be satirized.
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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.
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I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.
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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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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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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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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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