In fact, though Bill Kinison makes it clear he thought Sam led an excessive life, it’s disconcerting to hear him recite some of Sam’s more famous routines about drug use with such gusto and flair.

I Am Sam Kinison sheds light on the comic’s “very intense and raw” personal life and rampant drug use in order to explain away some of his more shocking routines.

There, predictably, Sam Kinison’s ascension to stardom was matched by his descent into drug and alcohol abuse. According to Bill Kinison, his younger brother spent virtually every moment of ...

It’s hard to imagine Sam Kinison growing old and mellowing out. The infant Sam arrived in East Peoria nearly 62 years ago. That’s the minimum age to draw Social Security, a stage in life where ...

WHAT IT’S ABOUT Sam Kinison was among the biggest standups in the world when he was killed in a head-on collision on a remote stretch of highway in California on April 10, 1992. He was 38. This ...

They were the kind of kids to whom comedian Sam Kinison’s bellowing stage persona was often said to appeal — two young men, in their late teens, drinking and driving fast on a Friday night.

But as success came fast, a drug problem raged. Video of his late-1980s shows depicted a glassy-eyed and non-edgy Kinison. He was still funny, yet, uneven, no longer a dangerous observational pit ...

Q. What’s behind screaming Sam Kinison’s comedy of rage? A. Religion. Kinison, 35, grew up as a preacher’s kid in Illinois, cut classes and misbehaved. After his father’s de… ...

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.

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 ...

They all showed up to say goodbye to Sam Kinison on April 15, 1992. Five days earlier, the screaming-and-controversial comedian died in an automobile accident while on the way to perform in ...

None of the TV anchors knew quite what to make of Sam Kinison when news of his death came over the wire early Saturday morning. "The loud comedian," most of them called him, struggling to make ...