The King of Hate Comedy Was a Preacher
Kinison took the “comedy of hate” to the masses, commanded the stage like a rock star, and people just ate it up. The “white Richard Pryor” who inspired Bill Hicks and was inspired by Lenny Bruce , Kinison was a true rock ’n’ roll comic. He lived and breathed rebellion, which makes it either obvious or surprising that he was raised on the Bible.
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The high school dropout from East Peoria, Illinois, was raised by preachers. Heck, the hate-preaching comic was once a preacher himself. Born in 1953 to two Pentecostal preaching parents, Samuel Burl Kinison was one of four boys. All of them became preachers.