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Isn't "Screamin' Sam" just a tribute act? You wouldn't have tribute bands linked from the Beatles page... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.238.130.11 ( talk) 03:59, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Catchphrase? 73.189.13.57 ( talk) 00:25, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
The November 14 1985 Letterman appearance is listed as Kinison's breakthrough, however, Kinison's first television appearance was on "Rodney Dangerfield's Ninth Annual Young Comedians Special", broadcast on HBO on August 3 1985. See [1].
The Letterman show was Kinison's first appearance on broadcast television. -- 68.219.188.81 15:20, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I corrected the spelling and a little bit of the grammar, but the article is still an infantile eyesore.
Deleted stuff about Kinison talking before his own death, supposedly about his death. Also deleted stuff about how he might've survived if not for moving around.
The text deleted actually said things like "It is speculated that..." and "it is said that...he is said to have said..." Please, that's junior high.
I don't know that this didn't happen, but it needs to be sourced or verified. The article even gives the impresion that he was alone, so who saw this stuff happen? At the very least it needs a sourced for who reported it. The article still needs a lot of work, but I saw those two paragraphs and couldn't leave them to give some young naive person a false sense of mysticism clouding their understanding of a great comedian.
So, if it happened and someone witnessed it, then cite it. Or, if it's a popular urban legend, then label it as such. But otherwise, leave the "To this day, no one really knows what happened....but some say..." crap to bad television specials.
Does anyone know the exact highway number he was killed on? (unsigned)
Also, i think he was killed driving a Viper, not a Trans AM. Can anyone confirm this?
Underneath the picture it says Kinison was born in Peoria, Illinois, but the article states he was born in Yakima, Washington. Which one is it? Born in Yakima, WA. Grew up in E. Peoria, IL. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.224.125.231 ( talk) 03:47, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure he was playing a custom Kramer Richie Samobora model or a Kramer Liberty, not a Stratocaster. This link shows one guitar of his, and him playing it in the video, and this link shows the supposed airbrushed one. Perhaps someone can take a look at the video and compare? Bryanedp9 16:53, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Aerosmith and Slash among others make cameos in the Wild Thing video. I can't believe Dwezel Zappa is listed but they aren't. I'm adding them.
Maybe it would help people understand the Libyan jokes better if it were clarified that when Mr. Kinison was alluding to "Where do they keep the baby girl" he is talking about how American bombers killed Gaddafi's baby daughter. 68.49.242.230 23:57, 30 January 2007 (UTC)ahassan05
I believe Mr. Kinison's joke about "bombing" was that at, joke. He was never pro-bombing brown people, especially since he was married to an Arab, Malika Souiri. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.7.75.46 ( talk) 23:46, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
Why the heck is there no photograph? What kind of biography doesn't have an image? Tell me some fair-use nazi isn't patrolling this page making sure no one commits the unforgivable sin of seeing what someone actually looks like? 71.110.158.173 19:16, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
I corrected the roads listed. Mr Kinison took US 95 North from I-40. He was going to Laughlin, Nevada but turned off to take US 95 by accident. If he had continued into Needles, he would have found the well known (but unmarked at the time) shortcut that he had been told to take. I was a witness to the accident scene. -- 203.84.188.38 ( talk) 15:15, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
In "Why Did We Laugh" his brother says that one of the other brothers was murdered (specifically that he was "shot in the head"), anyone know anything about that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.125.19.104 ( talk) 23:13, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Sam's brother is on the record saying Sammy was in communication with an angel or maybe God as he was dying. Why isn't that in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.113.49.126 ( talk • contribs) 08:52, 25 June 2009
News reports at the time of his death said Sam Kinison was not killed immediately in the crash; in fact, he was ambulatory before paramedics arrived, wandering around dazed at the accident scene, but died of internal injuries soon thereafter. I can't say if he died at the scene or on the way to hospital. Unfortunately, the references used in the article make no mention of these details.— Quicksilver T @ 16:59, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
It seems to me he's most famous for his riff during the Ethiopia famine. "You live in a f***ing desert! Nothing grows out here! See this? This is sand. You know what it's gonna be a hundred years from now? It's going to be sand! Get your kids, get your shit, we'll make one trip, we'll take you to where the food is!" Video on YouTube -- Skierpage ( talk) 05:11, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Someone has nominated File:Sam Kinison.jpg for deletion. 70.49.124.225 ( talk) 04:16, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
He was married five days before his untimely death. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.34.211 ( talk) 11:24, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
Having been unable to locate any info on the proposed film after late 2013, I want to edit the Legacy section to downplay the present tense and clarify its increasingly speculative nature. The project is entirely unmentioned at both
Josh Gad and
Larry Charles, so I could make the case that it's likely dead.
Weeb Dingle (
talk) 18:35, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
There are zero references to the Stern show? He was a guest at least 100 times. Artificial Nagger ( talk) 04:46, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
The Ron Shock article reads Shock, himself the founder of Texas Outlaw Comics, said Kinison was not in Texas Outlaw Comics, but rather Outlaws of Comedy. The Texas Outlaw Comics and Sam Kinison articles say he was. Which was it? 71.62.226.224 ( talk) 14:56, 17 January 2024 (UTC)