A Texas Outlaw Comic
He told Rolling Stone that after years of trying to “sell God,” he found it pretty easy to sell his jokes. He thought that as he’d made people laugh in church, he could in a club. He may have left religion, but he was still a believer.
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Kinison would say that Jesus wasn’t coming back – that he was already inside you. “You can deliver yourself,” he told his audiences. In those early days, Kinison joined a comedy group called the Texas Outlaw Comics. The guys in the group included Bill Hicks, Riley Barber, Ron Shock, Steve Epstein, Jimmy Pineapple, and Kinison.