Sam Kinison

[bobistheowl]

In a second hand store today, I found a copy of Brother Sam: A Tribute to Sam Kinison. It came out in 2005, from Geneon Entertainment, (their website, geneon-ent.com, is no longer active). I never saw this one in stores, and it didn't surface on torrents or p2p.

If you are a fan of Sam, as I am, this is a must-have. I checked Amazon, and they have it for about $18, but the supply's short, and the company might be out of business,

I enjoyed Breaking the Rules and The Family Entertainment Hour, but they were also disappointing, as they were sanitized to R rating, while his stage act was definitely NC-17. The DVD is a series of highlights from many different years and locations, and he's at his raunchy best. So much of his act was visual that you miss so a lot from just audio recordings of the filthy stuff.

I had the pleasure of performing on Amateur Night at the Yorkville Yuk Yuk's on the same night that Sam made his Toronto debut in October or November, 1984. He had been booked for a Tuesday through Thursday headlining gig, but he was virtually unknown, so they brought him out on Amateur Night, and he did a half hour showcase of his act. I never laughed that hard before in my life, nor since, but a few scenes in the first .vob came pretty damned close.

 

[elmufdvr]

if it is on dvd.. try to post some of it out there..to share... lets us know how to get a copy...

 

[bobistheowl]

I'll have a divx 5 version on eMule sometime Saturday, about 700 MB, which is standard p2p size for a file that long, (81 minutes). It fits neatly on a CD Rom. Sorry, I can't torrent it because I already use most of my bandwidth for uploading my video rips. I do obscure/cult/limited appeal videos, so normally if three people want the same file at the same time, it's hot in my queue. I just can't seed and maintain 600 + videos on torrents, some of which nobody will want for months or years at a time.

I run pretty good bandwidth, and my queue turns over about 4.5 times a day. It would take about 18 days running eMule 24/7 for someone to get the file entirely from me, but considerably less if several people were downloading at the same time. His monologues on sex and religion were always his funniest stuff, and unfortunately, the HBO specials concentrated too much on political humour, which doesn't age well, but isn't too filthy for pay TV. HBO would never run monologues like Leper Man, Mrs. Jesus, and Oriental Lick Master, among others.

 

[jazzpig]

I had the pleasure of performing on Amateur Night at the Yorkville Yuk Yuk's on the same night that Sam made his Toronto debut in October or November, 1984. He had been booked for a Tuesday through Thursday headlining gig, but he was virtually unknown, so they brought him out on Amateur Night, and he did a half hour showcase of his act. I never laughed that hard before in my life, nor since, but a few scenes in the first .vob came pretty damned close.

I was there too! I was convulsing with laughter...I literally had to stop listening to him cuz I couldn't take it anymore.
I remember reading the lineup card on the table and he was headlining. It went something like " You're going to love this guy... straight from L.A....
he's a real Scream", and I thought, oh no, not some guy who's going to yell all night.

I too have never laughed that hard before, nor since.
Thanks for bringing me back.

 

[bobistheowl]

The DVD rip's up on eMule.

 

[MarkII]

I remember hearing one of his bits on sending food to impoverished regions of the world. The jist of the joke;

Stop sending them FOOOOD! Send them a UHaul!! It's a fuckin DESEEERRRT! Always been a FUCKIIN DESERT! MOOOOOVE!!!

Caps are of course screams as only Kinison could do. I still laugh when I think about it.

M2

 

[bobistheowl]

I remember hearing one of his bits on sending food to impoverished regions of the world. The jist of the joke;

Stop sending them FOOOOD! Send them a UHaul!! It's a fuckin DESEEERRRT! Always been a FUCKIIN DESERT! MOOOOOVE!!!

Caps are of course screams as only Kinison could do. I still laugh when I think about it.

M2

He does that one on the DVD.

 

[hunter001]

I loved the bit he did in "Back to School".

 

[Ben Hogan]

2 good 2 be 4 gotten

Ooooh Ooooh OOOOOOHHHHH!

Sam =

 

[james t kirk]

I saw him live once at LuLus in Kitchener.

Ah the good ole days.

 

[bobistheowl]

For Sam's DATY tutorial, download Oriental Lick Master at:

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=667597FD3CEB5AF6

This link is available for seven days or 100 total downloads, whichever comes first. It's 19 MB in divx 5.0.

 

[Insidious Von]

Lick the alphabet.....

Sam Kinison's ultimate moment occurred at Rodney Dangerfield's 70th Birthday Roast. Even with the heavyweight comic talent at the event (Jay Leno, Bill Murray,Dice, Rosanne Barr, Bea Arthur....) he absolutely slaughtered the competition and left the podium to a standing ovation. At the time he was modifying his routine since he took exception to being compared to Dice Clay so no one was sure what to expect. He held nothing back in roasting his mentor Rodney, who looked as if he had pissed himself with laughter.

A unforgetable event.

 

[bobistheowl]

Lick the alphabet.....

I'm not sure if you downloaded the Oriental Lick Master clip from the link above, but licking the alphabet is the last part in that monologue.

 

[petitelover]

I was fortunate enough to see Sam live in concert one summer. I thought he was funny as hell. Very animated and a great presenter of comedy.