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Sam's worst is better than most people's best, November 26, 2001
This review is from: Sam Kinison - Family Entertainment Hour (DVD)
Watching Sam Kinison is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's VERY good. And when it's bad...it's still good. (Plus, you always feel dirty afterwards) Sam's concert at the Wiltern Theatre is by no means his best show (the "Breaking the Rules" DVD is much better), but there are still plenty of laughs on this disc. This show was after Sam cleaned up his personal life, so a lot of his humor in self-effacing, making fun of his wild and drunken past. Find out the fate of Sam's beloved car Mr. Vette, and why he could never get a normal line of coke at parties. Plus, as a special feature, this disc includes scenes from another of Sam's stand-ups. This is an OLD one, too, from before Sam made it big. He's performing on a stage that looks like it's in a bar or something. This stuff has never been released on video before, and there's a LOT of it! The standup act from the special feature is almost as long as the disc's main concert! It includes a lot of great early bits, such as God stepping on people and Jesus' disciples trying to call in sick. Wait a minute, I was trying to make a point here and I forgot it...oh yeah. Buy it.
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Samuel Burl Kinison: 12/8/53 -- 4/10/92, August 6, 2010
In Sam Kinison's highly un-P.C. "Family Entertainment Hour," he starts by insulting M.C. Hammer (remember him?) and suggests that serial killers target all rappers, then things soar from there. A few dozen F words, coke humor, urinating in a suitcase, swallowing (you know what), blasphemy, Richard Simmons-- it all goes parading rapidly by in a demented stream of consciousness punctuated every so often by Sam's trademark screeches. The finale is Kinison's phone call to an audience member's ex-girlfriend. He loudly abrades her for sleeping with the guy's brother. Maybe the brother was a better lay, Sam.
The real question is: what family was Sam trying to entertain here? The Mansons?
This is not my preferred brand of stand-up. Maybe it's yours.
(Note: Kinison claims during this performance to finally be clean and sober. Maybe so, however, after that drunken teen plowed headlong into Sam's Grand Am barely a year later and killed him instantly, the autopsy revealed his drug of choice was present in the unfortunate comic's bloodstream. RIP to a most unusual, scatologically verbose proponent of humor's angrier side.)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Samuel Burl Kinison: 12/8/53 -- 4/10/92, August 6, 2010
This review is from: Sam Kinison - Family Entertainment Hour (DVD)
In Sam Kinison's highly un-P.C. "Family Entertainment Hour," he starts by insulting M.C. Hammer (remember him?) and suggests that serial killers target all rappers, then things soar from there. A few dozen F words, coke humor, urinating in a suitcase, swallowing (you know what), blasphemy, Richard Simmons-- it all goes parading rapidly by in a demented stream of consciousness punctuated every so often by Sam's trademark screeches. The finale is Kinison's phone call to an audience member's ex-girlfriend. He loudly abrades her for sleeping with the guy's brother. Maybe the brother was a better lay, Sam.
The real question is: what family was Sam trying to entertain here? The Mansons?
This is not my preferred brand of stand-up. Maybe it's yours.
(Note: Kinison claims on the main feature (as does the included text bio) to finally be clean and sober. Maybe so, however, after that drunken teen plowed headlong into Sam's Grand Am barely a year later and killed him instantly, the autopsy revealed his drug of choice was present in the unfortunate comic's bloodstream. RIP to a most unusual, scatologically verbose proponent of humor's angrier side.)
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