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 of arid desert road between Needles and Barstow
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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 Kinison’s first version, which featured seductively clad women.
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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 to rock audiences with his new album, “Leader of the Banned.”