Comedy, Coke, and Fearlessness
If there was a time to be loud and proud, it was the ‘80s. The decade was the perfect time for Kinison to scream his sermons on stage for the crowds (high on all kinds of stuff – from you-know-what to the comedy itself to hairspray) to go wild. The late comic lived life on the edge. Just ask another late comic…
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“[He] was absolutely fearless… Most people go to the edge and then stop. Not Sam. He’d see the edge and then just keep going. And I think that scream he was famous for was just the sound he made on the way down,” Robin Williams said about Kinison.