Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
From Sam Kinison
When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
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