Sam Kinison

In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

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It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.

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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!

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Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

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I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three and a half weeks! My friends, if you can come up with thirteen grand, you don't have a problem yet!

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