Sam Kinison Is A Sucker For Love | Letterman

[@a5dr3]

This first incarnation of Kinison had 30 minutes that was just unstoppable, and he knew it. One of the best comedy spots in history. This conflagration of the early material and his personality was dynamite.

[@keithpennington8259]

40 years later and that still stands up as funny. What an original!

[@danielschnee2666]

I can't even imagine how honoured I would be if I were Lou... being able to tell your friends and grandchildren I was the first person Sam Kinison ever did crowd-work with on national TV... on LETTERMAN!

[@tammyponmorris9324]

Sam Kinison left this world before i was born 😢😢 so grateful for the internet giving us the ability to witness legendary comedy

[@KingpinPadre]

I requested this one about a month ago. So happy to see it in a pure clip. Kinison was a comet blazing across the sky. We won't see the likes of him again.

[@justincuvelier9569]

You are right since he is 6ft under. We all will join him one far 😂😂

[@damienrowley443]

A unique man and comedian, total character. He cracks me up quite a bit. The definition of unafraid and willing to proclaim his thoughts to challenge individual thinking. A yeller but it’s actually funny, Rogan yells too but he doesn’t have the inflection of absurdity but with the relatability that makes Sam’s a good listen.

[@redacted2275]

Rogan has nothing to do with Kinison: Kinison used his priest experience to deliver his stand up comedy in an unique way, unlike any other. There's method in his madness.

[@AlmostaFlipinSkater]

YOU LIVE IN A DESERT

[@mac2669]

Rogan doesn’t yell stop it

[@JumpinJAKEFlash]

Kinison was so good Letterman did an impression of him after he left the stage 😂

[@rockturtleneck]

One of the greats. R.I.P. Sam

[@MichaelSilverMedia]

1985, what a time. Guy was a legend and Dave warned you.

[@dc7468]

His appearances on the Stern show were so legendary. Especially when he came on to Carol Alt. RIP Sammy so many laughs.

[@jeegeee]

Dave is in the back cracking the f up . LOL

[@TheGreatAtario]

Full preacher mode at the beginning, not sure I've ever seen a clip of him actually doing it

[@ricarleite]

There is audio of it on KZbin of his last sermon in early 1982

[@douglaschristine8387]

I sure loved this guy. Id start laughing when he walked on stage knowing what was about to come. Totally unique.

[@XxXNinjaFanXxX]

one of the best to ever do it. super nice guy off camera as well.

[@CybershamanX]

Was a teen in the 80s. What a crazy decade. 😀

[@bestbeforeapparel]

That bit about weeds and the sandwich! Bro!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@yamatotakeru9078]

HE´S STILL THE GREATEST STAND UP EVER, SO FUNNY!

[@martinedwards4522]

RIP Sam.... never forgotten😂😂👍🏻

[@luthersaldana]

Dave cracking up at 6:09 👍

[@vrvaughn]

“Don’t feed him yet” 😂🤣😂

[@JimzAuto]

‘Back in the mud hole’ 😂

[@TheArtofGuitar]

Raw comedy at its finest! The world was not ready. :)

[@HannahCope88]

This appearance is indeed epic. Kinison rocks!

[@AlmostaFlipinSkater]

Sam Kinison would’ve made a great Penguin and Joker

[@thedbcooperforum]

Legend has it Lou is still single..

[@yohmsaw]

The man was a prophet, bringing truth in the form of comedy.

[@mulemule]

*"I was married for two years; my life was so boring I actually worried about my yard."* (True 40-years ago, true today.)

[@shanegolding436]

Back when society knew how to take a joke.

[@MrJkc10]

❤😂 good comment 👍🏻

[@markmckay7603]

This example of early Kineson really shows what an innovative unique style he had. His later stuff never quite matched this in sheer hilarity. I guess you can only be truly new and a total surprise once, and Sam was definitely that.

[@Ledhead223]

According to his brother, and a lot of others after his first actual written routine. He just drowned himself in booze and coc.

[@freeanimals594]

​@@Ledhead223 He was clean when he died. Just coming back from his honeymoon when they were hit by a drunk driver. 😢

[@philfortner1805]

@@freeanimals594 He was clean. Normally they had to sweep the cocaine off of him!

[@mattfoley6082]

I've watched this several times and I laugh every time even though I know what's coming. Sam was one of a kind.

[@MdlAgedHeadbanger]

I remember watching this when it originally aired. To say I was confused is an understatement, but having just had one of my many failures trying to find a girlfriend I was able to relate.

[@davidc6032]

I remember watching this set on Letterman in 1985 as clear as day. The bit with Lou in the audience is all-time gold. Sam was so dang funny.

[@kalgstol]

Dave cracking up in the background 🤣

[@BettyNFriendz]

How have I not liked this video already…. Sam Kinsinson Thank god for we will all die 💪🏼✊🏼👊🏼

[@OhGrowUpPodcast]

6:08 Letterman laughing in the back ground is epic

[@johnglenn30csardas]

What amazing to me about all these Letterman clips that are now coming out is how much more committed the show was to being funny for its own sake compared to the stuff that is similar in format that’s on tv today. And with a really high success rate along with some fun failures. Not seeing many fun failures these days. Not tolerated, perhaps.

[@grant8917]

We need more Sam Kinison’s in this day and age!

[@GregCurtin45]

Damn that was brilliant. Thanks for posting this.

[@pacosandoval4090]

Absolutely Fantastic 😂

[@CasperLCat]

That Northeast crowd had no idea, that first “loud” part was straight Pentecostal Christian preaching, goes on all over the South and rural US every Sunday and Wednesday nights. That’s what Sam did for real, before comedy.

[@davetrent8612]

nothing but love here

[@malvavisco10]

Freeze-frame 1:38, the couple (I assume) just behind his left shoulder are like “omg so true lmao… our marriage IS hell!”

[@nypad5]

oh hell yes! this clip in amazing quality!

[@JohnOneall-pg1qu]

Keep going preacher we need you.

[@jerzeyguy71]

this was great!!!

[@ronwade5646]

Got married the first time at 49, I made the face. 😮

[@genestone4951]

Perfection!

[@phdtikus5987]

The finishing tune from the Rolling Stones was the cream on top...

[@yourpalboots]

Is that Mets 3B Howard Johnson in the crowd??

[@rudygracia5573]

People are so quick to crown Chapelle the greatest comedian ever,or Maniscalco(Great!),Dangerfield,Romano,Seinfeld,Peters,Pryor,Carlin,or Burr,CK...And these are all fabulous!BUT!Kinison was G-R-E-A-T!! NOBODY killed it like Sam!!Before OR SINCE!!And Kinison SANG(good)too!

[@sammencia7945]

40 years ago it was a joke. Now in 2023 it is reality. Marriage is over.

[@AbrasiousProductions]

I've thought of going into stand up comedy but I fear I won't ever be able to be on the same level kinison was

[@martybass7376]

You wouldn't be

[@shipwreckedpoet3]

Sam was orginal. After Sam’s last joke you could see Dave in the back laughing hysterically to himself when the lights first come up. Love Dave’s version of the primal scream. 😆 First time I saw that part.

[@randymillhouse791]

I love the worm coming out of the forehead bit.

[@billyshepard5514]

Thats a devil horn he makes with his hand

[@randymillhouse791]

@@billyshepard5514 SOURCE? Wait, I don't wanna know really.

[@carguy372]

Man I miss Sam Kinison!

[@yamatotakeru9078]

HE´S STILL THE GREATEST STAND UP EVER, SO FUNNY!

[@margiejohnson5722]

All Sam kinison lovers should watch “back to school”. He has a role in it.

[@JENOBEtv]

Amazing 😂

[@musicauthority674]

Sam Kinesin was very impressive. he was AWESOME!!!!!! he is definitely missed.

[@2_thumbs_up_baby]

I've bn saying that everytime i see an ad for feed the starving kids. Go where the food is ....by the sea. ...etc....what's their government doing, eating rib roasts and letting their ppl starve.. Sam knew his stuff

[@shutterbug_713]

2:49 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@KOSMICKEN09]

I saw him once here at kalamazoo state theater I was 16 at the time.

[@jfh9209]

THANKS FOR SHARING!!!

[@BaconTomatoCheese]

All I can say to this is… “AAAAHHHHHGGGG!!!” RIP, Sam Kinison ( I hope!)

[@CasualClobber]

Joe Rogan protect our parks brought me here

[@ernestoortiz8672]

This is my first time seeing him perform after years of hearing Diaz and Rogan talk highly about him, he’s hilarious 😂 especially his screams

[@ucfkid67]

Wonder if Lou ever got married?!? Scarred for life perhaps??

[@WalkerStalker]

Lou was a life long bachelor and has been happy ever since!

[@Cbart23]

Oh ya Sammy

[@blairdelnero2762]

Yea how true

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Samuel Burl Kinison (Yakima, 8 de diciembre de 1953 - Needles, 10 de abril de 1992)​ fue un actor y comediante estadounidense reconocido por sus intensas rutinas de stand up comedy y por su aparición en las películas Back to School, ¡Tres Amigos! y Pauly Shore is Dead.

[@RikimaruLDR]

Here are Bill Burr mentioned him 🤘 Boy do I learn some stuff from that great podcast

[@infowarriorone]

Thanks be to Dave for bringing so many legendary comedians to the Ed Sullivan Theater.. Sam Kinison, Dave Chappelle, Bill Hicks and of course the fabulous Martin Short.

[@MTVCOPS]

Kinison never appeared at the Ed Sullivan Theater. Hicks was cut for time. They appeared in 6A.

[@keefriff99]

@@MTVCOPS Hicks wasn’t cut for time though…the network excised it from the broadcast in cowardice because he made so many anti-religion statements. I loved when Dave apologized to Bill Hicks’ mother in person for cutting the set and then played it in full.

[@redacted2275]

@@keefriff99 It wasn't just religion stuff, it was jokes about disabled people, anti-abortion in a very dark tone. The year was 1993, the world was a whole other place, there was only two major late night shows at the time competing for the audience... Letterman aired the presentation only in 2009, almost two decades later and as much as I love Letterman, he was wrong in this. But Letterman had Hicks 12 times on his show besides this one unfortunate time, can't ignore this.

[@RANDYJR72]

I miss his comedy 😂😂😂😂

[@williamweiss6128]

Love Sam K!!!

[@BrandonHardaker]

Even when I was a kid and first saw him in Back to School playing on television, I thought Sam was hilarious.

[@thehardmenpaththehardmenpa8348]

1:49 Lars Ulrich from Metallica in the audience

[@ThePMcDonald]

Between John Belushi and Sam Kinison, the world TRAGICALLY lost TWO COMPLETE COMEDIC GENIUSES ... because of substance abuse ... John was overdosed ... Sam was killed by a drunk driving teen ... The world is SO deprived because of these tragedies ...

[@Badwater-ib3us]

Letterman is just dying in the background. Kinison was that funny.

[@ms.annthrope415]

Would love to have heard his sermons when he was a reverend.

[@billyshepard5514]

One is on youtube audio only. Search kinison last sermon

[@alexmejias8102]

That is hilarious, but true.

[@emilegeorge6225]

I would love to see the angry guy. The one that swears at dave. This was the pinnacle of absurdity.

[@JimzAuto]

What are you referring to?

[@emilegeorge6225]

@@JimzAuto i am referring to Jody Ebert and his several appearances. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2rJYmWrmcmjfsU

[@wileysells1279]

"AAAAAHHHH!!!! AAAAAHHHH!!!"

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

David Michael Letterman 12 de abril de 1947 76 años.

[@rickmcdonald1557]

I really used to enjoy Sam's stuff and I especially liked his part in Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield as a teacher of History-I think. No one like him before or after~!!

[@DanJanTube]

good answer. good answer.

[@rickmcdonald1557]

@@DanJanTube THX

[@theduder2617]

Except that we and MANY others paid money to see him perform both before and after your lone example. He was liked as a preacher as well. Just not for his comedy. To boldly make such a non-factual accusation is rather foolish. Especially considering said accusation is entirely based upon personal opinion and not objective truth.

[@DanJanTube]

This genius was a mere 31yrs old at the time of this performance

[@mwilson772]

I still have a huge crush on Sam

[@jaypickett3552]

I think that’s Sam’s brother Bill sitting behind Lou…

[@shannonkatherine]

I absolutely think you’re right.

[@brianmorrison7542]

Genius

[@Tommyr]

We can all use some Tony Randall about now.

[@rickybroussard5350]

Sam the Man he was one of the Greatest lol

[@jamesd242]

Like they envy the Dead, full lmfao

[@geargeekpdx3566]

Cartman's early career

[@MultiBear64]

I wonder if Lou ever got married

[@Killthesefears]

DECIMATED

[@keefriff99]

He was a certifiable maniac…hilarious though. Truly a one of a kind whose lifestyle was even more outrageous than his stage act. It’d be fascinating to see how his comedy changed in modern times had he not died. Some of his material from the ‘80s was truly vile.

[@redacted2275]

He was calming down before his tragic death... I believe he would probably be retired at this point or reconnected with his Christian past.

[@playedout148]

Alex Jones stole his act.

[@rockitmorton]

... But I'm not the guy.

[@anachronistofer]

Not a big Kinison fan, but watching this makes me miss that era for comedy and stand-up comedians.

[@MsBettyboo01]

Extremely funny but he only had this routine

[@michelenichele294]

🤦🏼‍♀️

[@Phobero]

2 good jokes in 7 mins of screaming...

[@somethingyousaid5059]

I hate preachers. And politicians.

[@915slayer]

What's funny about this?

[@TheSurgicalOne]

Everything

[@alexmapp5444]

First

[@damienrowley443]

Congratulations to you :)

[@chiefscheider]

Remarkable achievement 👍

[@firebladeboost4766]

😂😅

[@rzz9594]

Invincible. 😮