I was friends with Sam and his dear friend Carl. Those days in Vegas will always be near and dear to my heart. Sam and Carl always made me feel like I was a part of their family even though my talents were far less than theirs. R.I.P. Sam and Carl God bless you both.
Mike, I loved Sam, listened to him as youth and then had the privilege of seeing him at Ballys in Vegas. That night was amazing! Me and several Air Force buddies went excited to just see the show and while standing in the line to go end, someone came and escorted us in and set us down stage side. Us young guys were so blown away!!!! Almost 30 years later we always reflect to that Awesome Night!!! God Bless Sam! Rest in Peace Brother! AAAAAAHHHHHHUUUUUUGGGRRRRRRR!!!!!
What hurts so much now is losing all of the comedians that shared "his voice" somewhat. The edgy, crafty, confident, dirty, real, perceptive, completely unafraid. Sam flat-out killed! Sorry for the loss of your friend, thank God for the memories. As a result of my business, luck and whatever I have more famous friends and acquaintances than I could possibly count and 99.9% of the time have had such great times with them. Unfortunately, as a result of hassles with travel, C-19, paparazzi, violence, TMZ, everybody with cellphones, most celebrities who aren't thirsty for publicity do much less running around. It really sucks to not spend more time with more friends as life passes by.
@@showtime951 Particularly, regarding cell phones and texting ... we as a society have grown so addicted to these devices that we would rather spend our precious time on them than to personally be with the real people in our lives. Especially over the holidays, this can be a lonely existence. I think it's very unhealthy on all levels, and especially, it starves the soul. Personal contact is a must. It doesn't have to be all of the time, but with all of our new-fangled technology taking its place, the lack of in-person interaction creates holes in our social fabric that can leave us wanting. Feeding on technology as a steady diet is like constantly eating junk food -- the lack of nourishment eventually undermines our well being.
@@jrnfw4060 - Exactly. Further, people should realize time is finite. If you're spending hours and hours looking at other people's family photos and vacation pictures, you just might be missing out on creating some of your own, etc. Also, I must say nothing spoils a great moment like trying to capture a video of it!
I don't care what ANYONE says Sam was The Man. ... and for that brief shining moment in history he nailed comedy in a new way, bringing a new style, and put it on the radar scope of every single person in America. RIP Sam, we Miss you WE NEED YOU TODAY
I miss Sam Kinison....22 years later... i still go through the clips, listen to Sounds of Kinison. and think ...Damn... What could have been.... Still wondering
In the Sounds of Kinison clip, there's one part that shows a bare stage with only Sammy's beret resting on it, and him absent. That really got to me. Still does. I can't watch that, anymore.😪
@@jonburrows2684 Maybe Brendan Schaub is the comic for you then.... My Dad used to always crack jokes in this voice when I was a kid, especially when he was with my Uncle who did it too and I always just assumed that was their way of joking around with each other. And then a few years back I listened to Sam Kinison and it clicked immediately that that's where they got it from, and their sense of humor/way of story telling is based off of Kinison. Which made perfect sense bc they were in middle and high school in the md to late 80s when he was blowing up. Point being, just because you don't know who he is doesn't mean he wasn't a legend. I bet if you ask your parents they'll know who he is. Are you gonna say Rodney Dangerfield isn't a legend either bc you only hear about him on youtube?
What’s worse than that is the drunk driver served NO jail time. It pisses me the fuck off. The world lost a great comedian thanks to this guy drunk driving and he received no punishment for it. 😐😑
Jessica Yawn 😴 She was a dime a dozen penthouse chick who happened to hook up with a sleazy televangelist and a brilliant comedian. Howard Stern gave her way more attention and airtime than she deserved.
Wow very candid. What a very polite and gentle man. Am even more impressed with him after seeing this. Saw him live twice and will never forget it. Like Elvis and Hendrix...he just wasn't meant to grow old.
Sam will be long remembered way after Jessica who. it's a shame that people don't realize how hard it is to be a stand-up comedian you're up there alone on the stage trying to make people laugh and keep laughing very very tough job rest in peace Sam
+Pure Savage - And Larry blew right through that like he was talking about breakfast cereal or something. That's why Larry's show sucked in my opinion. He didn't listen, he always had his own agenda - and he would talk right over the most interesting person in the world. Didn't matter who it was. Never liked Larry.
Dice was fast food, Kinison was the house burger with homemade fries and a strawberry shake made with real ice cream. Kinison was a natural comedian. He could go to any house party and kill. Dice was playing a part.
Daniel Zanier He was, I agree. The thing about Sam was he was a preachers boy and saw the hypocrisy first hand. Not of Christianity, I am a Christian, but Im talking about the hypocrisy of these fake Christians. That's what makes me such a big fan of his. He could of followed suit and became a part of that racket. Made more money, grown old rich, but he said fuck all that. Its dishonest, and its better to make a beast of yourself, for everyone to see, rather than make yourself out as some minor deity and only wallow in the filth behind closed doors.
Miss you Sam. Much like Stevie Ray Vaughn, God took you home when you got sober. You were THE heavy metal comedian! Thanks for being a voice for all the good guys who got screwed over!
Sam Kinison and George Carlin both made such great humor out of the naked truth about so many things. They never sugar-coated a damn thing; they told it like it was, and then some! They managed to make some pretty fucked-up shit bearable by making it so damn funny! I miss them both. They were the greatest!
Sorry to break a fantasy but george sugar coated the shit out of his "honest" humor. The guy was a nihilistic fatalistic marxist who never had the backbone to call out the real problems and actual problem makers. All he did was have his AntiWhite act, early against Straight White Men, because he supposedly didn't get the love from daddy. Take a close look at his words
It appears he was jealous of 🎲 Dices success! Sad because there was room for them both! They were completely different in their styles although they were both Politically Incorrect! Nonetheless, it’s sad that he’s gone because he was funny! RIP Sam
Still have all his cassette tapes and listen to his albums all the time. Since the early 90s hes been a part of my life and I wouldn't want it any other way. RIP brother.
Sam seemed like a nice laid back guy considering his on stage persona. Just fell into the trappings of fame and when he was climbing back up, he was taken.
Jessica Hahn. Well, I guess Sam was right. No one's heard from her in decades. He started out taking the high road, then she calls in and ... I know chicks like that. They're poison.
Sam is a member of the comedy elite club. He can be said in the same sentence as Pryor and Carlin. Crazy, cool, ballsy, shocking and unapologetic about who he is or what he says. Smart and a good guy, despite his reputation. His life was like his height...too short. Thats a joke.... for Sam. RIP
Carlin came first. He made a path in the comedy jungle for everyone else to follow. Carlin is one of the founding fathers of modern comedy. You dont have to like him...but u should respect him. Hes an icon, a legend.
Sam Kinison, was very close to Carlin in their irreverence, Dice was/is/can be very funny but also falls flat often, what strikes me is if you look at the real kings of comedy with exceptions like, knotts, carvey etc they were all real MEN, now it's all pajama boy beta males who wouldn't know testosterone from estrogen.
Larry King just drives me nuts. He NEVER lets the person SPEAK! If he would just slow down and stop asking 25 questions a minute, he might realize the person has more to say!!! He might have said more about his brother passing. But we'll never know. He might have expounded on why he was happy. But we'll never know. We might know more about why he left the church. But we'll never know. Larry just shoots one question after another, interrupting the answer all the time, as if he has dinner plans that he doesn't want to be late for!! Count how many time King interrupts him. It's rediculous!
+Crashburn 32 Absolutely spot on. Fucking Charlie Rose does that, too. You know who's great? Michael Parkinson, the British interviewer. Tons of examples on RU-vid: that's how you fucking do it. :)
+Crashburn 32 i made the same observation. king is like a question jukebox, he just randomly asks questions totally unrelated to the previous one. How the hell has the guy carved out a multi decade spanning career in the media!? i guess he just looks the part with his braces ?.
Sam was a total riot. I was in high school when he got famous. Thought he was the funniest dude ever. His scream is like one of the best ever. Like other Greats; gone too soon.
Would never be possible today. Another example of how much better tv/entertainment was back then. Interviews were much more honest and unfiltered. Not saying *everything* was better those days, but especially comedy surely was. Greetings from Germany! :-)
He's 100% right about Clay. His routine is played out. I can only stand ADC for about 5 minutes before I can't listen anymore. Kinison's material actually had substance to it.
It’s crazy that in this interview Sam talks about almost dying in a car accident along the winding hills, which is exactly how he died a few years later when he was hit head on by a drunk driver.
He couldn't have been more right about Andrew Dice Clay. He did indeed burn out and fell into obscurity. I never knew Sam used to be a minister. What a sharp contrast from what he used to do compared to what he became...
I watched this guy do a show at San Diego State University, at the on campus hall, Monty's ( a beer garden for students--1982 or so). I was blown away. We got to see all of the performers who had played at the La Jolla "Comedy Store." It was impressive! That show at SDSU was over the top. I remember two girls walking out during his show because he was bashing his newly divorced wife. It was amazing. Easy to see this guy was soon to be a star. A tragic, but predictable, end to his life in a fast car. I will never forget that night. Wow....they don't make comedians like Sam any more. Thanks for the laughs, Sam!
@JTHeidrick The 2 drunk kids in a pickup truck were the ones driving 100 miles an hour and crossed the double yellow line crashing into Sam's vehicle. Get your facts straight before you post an incorrect opinion that just embarrasses you.
@@robertwheeless4 Sorry, Sam was indeed known as a bit of a reckless driver too. Not unexpected for a guy who was a frequently hyper-crazed comedian. A comedic genius, unquestionably!
@JTHeidrick You're right on both counts, but this particular time, he wasn't being crazy, his brother was driving in a van behind him following him to the next show, I believe in Lo(a?)ughlin, and at that point he recognized he needed to change and was trying to straighten up.
This guy and I were from the same place and ten days apart in age. He died just as my first child was born. He died just as we were really beginning to live. Really really sad.
You know how everyone called Dick Clark "The World's Oldest Teenager" because he always looked so young right up until the day he died? Larry King is the opposite of that.
Sam looking real sober here. I still remember his classic Howard Stern appearances on the radio where he'd just show up with a few buddies at 7am after being out all night and wasted.
Real laughs and food for thought. An amazing experience and real sense of connection. We still can relate to him, now, thirty years after he left our planet.
Sam was smart as fuck, he like having a good time what is so wrong with that? it doesn't make you "out of control" because you like to have a good time in life. If he was on on television he would clean it up, it depended on the situation.
I liked him even more after I found out he left being a preacher to become a comedian. Making folks laugh is a way more honorable gig than being a religious huckster. Kudos to Sam & RIP
Sam died in the worst way: Knowing he was about to die. I can't even begin to imagine the absolute horror of that. It's not like dying of cancer where it takes a long time, this is someone who was perfectly healthy one moment, not a thought of death, to knowing the next moment it was the end.
@@HREIII - YES! I read that, that his friend said Sam was talking to someone that only Sam could see and saying he didn't want to die, and then he said "OK OK" as if the person he was talking to convinced him it was time to go
It's a shame that Sam and Dice hated one another so much because, in my opinion anyway, they're the two greatest comics ever. In that hard rock/heavy metal community, Howard Stern type community, those are the two comic gods of the 1980's. some people choose sides and love one and hate the other. some people hate both of them. I personally love both Sam and Dice. They're my two favorite comics that ever lived. If I had to choose one though that I would call my favorite, I'd say Sam.
cole williams that hack, sold out madison square garden....not one but 3 nights...so it is what it is. comedy is choice and opinion....its all good....man he sucks now...so i half agree with ya :)
Both Kinison and the Diceman are guilty pleasures of mine, but I think only Sam could legitimately be considered a great comedian. Dice, while funny, is simply a novelty act of '80s excess, and even though Sam was gut-bustingly hilarious, he never rose to the level of comedians who were both funny and culturally relevant, such as Carlin, Pryor, Cosby, Hicks, and even Louis CK. And that's no knock on Kinison. A comedian's job is, first and foremost, to make people laugh, and he makes me laugh my fuckin' ass off.
keefriff99 Everyone has their own style. Yes, there are better "technical" comedians, but at the end of the day, it's about who makes you laugh the hardest. Sam and dice always made me laugh harder than anyone else. It's not that Dice's material is brilliant, it's not, it's his delivery and presence. Take Jerry Seinfeld for instance; Jerry is brilliant in his observations and he's a textbook stand-up comic, but I don't belly laugh from Seinfeld. Dice and Sam make me spit soda out of my mouth sometimes. If you listen to Kinison's "Manson" skit, it's just so fucking funny. What he's saying might not look funny on paper, but the way sam delivers it, good luck keeping any liquid in your mouth listening to it.
sam took his exit JUUUUUST as the fist real wave of PC culture was taking hold. in a way im happy NOT to see the way they would have retroactively forced him to defend every joke he ever made. RIP Sammy