Sam Kinison on British TV

Bill Hicks' old drinking buddy on UK Channel 4's "Saturday Live", sometime in the mid 80's.

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Comedy

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• Sam
• Kinison
• American
• Stand-up
• comedy
• Bill
• Hicks

[libertarianable]

Who here is british and loves sam kinison

[penal420]

the flaw with sams act as far as capturing whole audiences is that he screamed a lot. the intelligent people in the audience would hear him scream and assume hes a moron, so they dont bother listening to the actual cleverness of what he says. while in america (yes we are a dumber audience overall) we love to hear his screaming, he usually got his best laughs from when he yelled (which is kinda dumb). bill hicks was WAY more popular in england, he made just as much sense as sam, just yelled less.

[bsgtrekfan88]

..........I wonder if Gary ever showed this vid to his wife! :)

Hello from across the pond - Cape Cod, MA

[Thorpe741]

He was a great comic. Ahead of his time. Miss you Sammy!

[TenTonHorse]

...oh...oh...OOOOHHHHHHHHH!!

[MrNicMachiavelli]

@penal420 they are so different that I wouldn't say Sam's flaw was his scream. People might not have understood of Kinison's scream but it was hysterical because it was so unique and expressive of his attitude.

[Jusplais]

institution designed to enslave women, literal property. now we use the instution, women embrace the " male is right, be his cheerledder and servant then finds her cooking and cleaning make him more like a son. Damn, he cant oppress her with his own institution.Still women get half in divorce because she cant work annymore, it goes back to the days when gus bought wives, then gave them back, paid alimony to women;s fathers. Sad that caring for one's offspring is a bore. adopt out.

[munky3691]

@penal420 I don't think it has to do with american audiences being dumber. It probably has more to do with what's culturally acceptable. Screaming in acts in america just adds emphasizes what he's trying to get across, while in england people would be like "he's screaming so loud" and then not really pay attention to what he's saying. It's a theory anyway.

[d21rich]

I remember seeing this when it was on TV here in the UK, or England as we used to call it before we had to acknowledge the Scottish, Irish and Welsh.

[GWhiz99]

Comic Sam Kinison blamed bad Chinese food for no-show as sole guest on “The Joan Rivers Show”. Rivers waited four hours for his arrival on the 1st anniversary of IRAq invading Kuwait: Fri., 8/02/91. Rivers’ mentor, Johnny Carson, hosted Garry Emmanuel Shandling, Charles Fleischer and Diana Reeves on the 8/02/91 ep. of “Tonight Show”. Rivers, Jewish, did 9 months with Chicago’s improvisational “The Second City”, while Chicago mayor Rahm Israel Emanuel was born on Shandling’s 10th b’day: 11/29/59