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Sam Kinison was a prominent American [[Stand Up Comedy|stand-up comedian]] from 1984 until his death in a DUI car crash ([[Death By Irony|the other driver was the drunken one]]) in 1992.
 
A [[PreachersPreacher's Kid]] who dabbled in the family business himself as a young man, Kinison brought the fire-and-brimstone speaking style to the American comedy stage, and combined it with [[Refuge in Audacity]] turned [[Up to Eleven]].
 
Kinison's memorable bits included "gay necrophilia"; "lick the alphabet"; "Jesus on the cross" (which included pounding the microphone on the floor to simulate the nails being hammered); "execute Pee Wee Herman"; "Russians are space pussies"; "the Kurds are the most fucked people on earth"; "I'm not afraid of Hell, I was married for two fucking years"; "shoot the homeless"; "emotional tampon" (about being 'just friends' with a woman); "move the Ethiopians to where the food is", and countless attacks on homosexuality.
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=== Tropes exemplified by Kinison: ===
* [[A Hell of a Time]]: One of his bits was about how a man who has seen the horrors of marriage would not be frightened by Hell, to the point that Satan would offer a married man a job as an assistant.
* [[Anti -Love Song]]: Several, most famously "Wild Thing", and the song he played on the piano after his "emotional tampon" bit.
* [[Berserk Button]]: While his first marriage causes a few snarls to pass Sam's lips, anything to do with his ''second'' marriage sends him into full-on "I LIVE IN HELL" rage.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Some early bits about AIDS and cosmetic surgery are embarrassingly bad; his later material acknowledged this to some extent.
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