Sam Kinison

Sam Kinison is, to me, one of comedy's great untamed forces. A former Pentecostal preacher who turned the same lungs that once delivered sermons into that unmistakable scream is almost too perfect a story. His routines weren't jokes so much as eruptions, fury and pain weaponised into laughter, and nobody has truly replicated that voice since. Losing him at thirty-eight in 1992 robbed stand-up of an artist who was still detonating its boundaries. What moves me most is the preacher's conviction burning underneath all that vulgarity. Kinison meant every word he screamed, and that authenticity is exactly why he endures.

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Name (English)

Sam Kinison

Name (Japanese)

サム・キニスン

Reading

さむ・きにすん

Born

December 8, 1953 – April 10, 1992

Origin

Yakima, Washington, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / stand-up comedian / preacher

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Snake

High school

East Peoria Community High School

• Official sitehttps://www.samkinison.org/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Kinison
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B9%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333505

Tags

• Washington
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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