Say what you will about Sam Kinison, who died in a car accident in 1992, but the loud, loutish comedian wasn't driven by an excessive need to be loved. At the height of his fame in the mid-'80s ...

HBO Films has decided to give the bigscreen treatment to the late Sam Kinison. The company’s developing a biopic of the outrageous comic with Tom Shadyac attached to direct and Rich Wilkes ...

Stand-up comic Sam Kinison screamed to the heights of his profession during a life that ended too soon. Here are 10 stories from his life and career.

He first came to fame as one of Sam Kinison's "Outlaws of Comedy." Stand-up comedian Jimmy Shubert hasn't mellowed much. "I'm a curmudgeon on hyper-drive," Shubert said. But with a definite caveat ...

His 1996 comedy album "Live From Hell" won him a Grammy. A documentary, Sam Kinison: Why Did We Laugh? is available on home video and plays regularly on the Comedy Central cable network.

The inexplicable popularity of alleged comedian Sam Kinison is one of the world’s more puzzling curiosities. Here’s an incredibly obnoxious, unappealing antagonist who has found a way t… ...