A Boring Preacher for Seven Years
The thing is, Kinison kept up the preacher act for seven years, from age 17 to 24, but he wasn’t close to being famous. As Bill explained, he was always focused on making his sermons informative rather than entertaining. Ironically, Kinison had no stage presence when he was preaching.
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Aside from being boring on stage, he was also making pennies of a salary. In an entire year, the starving minister made no more than $5,000. And it’s not because he was a minister. Bill said there were nights when he and his brother Richard made more than Kinison did in an entire year.