The Church Menace
While his older brothers would be delivering their sermons, the young Kinison would be hanging around in the back of the church, behind all the pews, pulling down his pants. At other times, he could be found hijacking the Church piano, playing Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer.”
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In the third grade, his parents threw him a surprise party. “I was f***ing crushed. I’d never let these kids see the way I lived… Then suddenly, they’re all over at the church, seeing all that stuff, how poor we were. I couldn’t stand it.”