He Would Drive People Out the Door
It was 1979 when Bill Hicks first saw Kinison on stage, stretching a pair of red panties over his head and screaming, “Call me Mr. Lonely!” He was raunchy and outrageous, and there were nights “when he would drive the entire room out the door,” Hicks recalled.
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Meanwhile, other comics would be rolling on the floor laughing as the last person out would yell, “This is horrible!” Kinison’s greatest asset, according to Hicks, was that he “just didn’t give a sh**.” After all, he got into comedy after already failing at being a minister and a husband.