Comedy in the Fast Lane: Sam Kinison’s Rock Star Life

He Needed to Talk About Kevin

Kinison was always on the verge of death, it seemed. And he knew it well. His younger brother Kevin had gone to rehab for his own drinking problem, but “they never cured him,” Kinison said. “He just must’ve lost it,” he said about his younger brother.

A portrait of Kevin Kinison

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The 28-year-old, the family’s baby, shot himself in his parents’ house in Tulsa after having a nervous breakdown. Until the day he died, Kinison was moved to tears when he talked about Kevin.

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