MTV
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Sam Kinison “Wild Thing” on MTV New Year’s Eve (1988)
Live performance of “Wild Thing” by Sam Kinison on MTV New Years Eve ’88 with host Downtown Julie Brown.
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Sam Kinison Last Stand
On April 10, 1992, almost a year after delivering that routine on HBO, Sam Kinison was killed in a head-on collision on that same stretch…
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An Appreciation: Kinison’s Unfinished Howl
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.
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Short Takes: Sanitized Video Upsets Kinison
Foul-mouthed comedian Sam Kinison is demanding that MTV stop showing the sanitized version of his “Under My Thumb” video. The music network originally had rejected…
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Hate-Mongers Are a Sad Chapter in the History of Comedy
The most important comedians have always been those who helped knock down the social, racial, economic and/or cultural barriers that keep people apart.
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The Man Who Would Be King of Metal
The heavy-metal comic, who boasts “I can play guitar at least as well as (Guns N Roses guitarist) Slash, is hoping to cross-over from comedy…