Talk:Sam Kinison

message: Isn't "Screamin' Sam" just a tribute act?  You wouldn't have tribute bands linked from the Beatles page...   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.238.130.11 (talk) 03:59, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: Catchphrase? 73.189.13.57 (talk) 00:25, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: SAY IT! SAY IT!

message: The November 14 1985 Letterman appearance is listed as Kinison's breakthrough, however, Kinison's first television appearance was on "Rodney Dangerfield's Ninth Annual Young Comedians Special", broadcast on HBO on August 3 1985.  See .
The Letterman show was Kinison's first appearance on broadcast television.
--68.219.188.81 15:20, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breakthrough 

message: Deleted stuff about Kinison talking before his own death, supposedly about his death. Also deleted stuff about how he might've survived if not for moving around.
The text deleted actually said things like "It is speculated that..." and "it is said that...he is said to have said..." Please, that's junior high.
I don't know that this didn't happen, but it needs to be sourced or verified. The article even gives the impresion that he was alone, so who saw this stuff happen? At the very least it needs a sourced for who reported it. The article still needs a lot of work, but I saw those two paragraphs and couldn't leave them to give some young naive person a false sense of mysticism clouding their understanding of a great comedian.
So, if it happened and someone witnessed it, then cite it. Or, if it's a popular urban legend, then label it as such. But otherwise, leave the "To this day, no one really knows what happened....but some say..." crap to bad television specials.
:Although everything about this criticism is strictly correct, the omission of this episode is conspicious.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cranky1000 (talk • contribs) 13:51, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "The article even gives the impresion that he was alone, so who saw this stuff happen?"...That would be APART from his wife of 6 days, who was in the car with him and survived?  Or perhaps the drunk 17 year old truck driver who crashed into him, assuming he didn't drive off afterwards.  I'm aware that the memories of people in traumatic situations aren't as trustworthy as totally separate witnesses (cars that stop, for instance, or the ambulance personnel), but in the absence of anything else it's the best we're going to get.  I do agree that it needs to be removed if there's nothing citeable though, but not because no-one was there to witness it because there was at least one other person! 78.86.230.62 (talk) 01:04, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

text: Folks, there is a reason why they deleted this part.  Look it up in other sources including the Las Vegas Review Journal and it will become obvious why they don't want you to read it. 2603:6081:8A00:AC:395D:ADE0:C48F:C58E (talk) 19:41, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted speculative material. 

message: Does anyone know the exact highway number he was killed on? (unsigned)
: According to findadeath.com, if you start in LA, head east on I-40, then head north on I-95 at the interchange, it's either three or four miles north of the interchange. --Jkonrath 19:04, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I-95 is about 2500 miles east of where the collision occurred.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.152.111.158 (talk) 11:11, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The reference should have been to US Route 95, not Interstate 95. John E Bredehoft (talk) 00:07, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where he died 

message: Underneath the picture it says Kinison was born in Peoria, Illinois, but the article states he was born in Yakima, Washington. Which one is it?
Born in Yakima, WA.  Grew up in E. Peoria, IL.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.224.125.231 (talk) 03:47, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kinison's place of birth 

message: I'm pretty sure he was playing a custom Kramer Richie Samobora model or a Kramer Liberty, not a Stratocaster.  This link shows one guitar of his, and him playing it in the video, and this link shows the supposed airbrushed one.  Perhaps someone can take a look at the video and compare?Bryanedp9 16:53, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guitar used in Wild Thing 

message: Why the heck is there no photograph? What kind of biography doesn't have an image? Tell me some fair-use nazi isn't patrolling this page making sure no one commits the unforgivable sin of seeing what someone actually looks like? 71.110.158.173 19:16, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: I corrected the roads listed. Mr Kinison took US 95 North from I-40. He was going to Laughlin, Nevada but turned off to take US 95 by accident. If he had continued into Needles, he would have found the well known (but unmarked at the time) shortcut that he had been told to take. I was a witness to the accident scene.  --203.84.188.38 (talk) 15:15, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry, but there's no way we can confirm that. I'll add tags. IronCrow (talk) 23:04, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death 

message: It seems to me he's most famous for his riff during the Ethiopia famine.  "You live in a f***ing desert! Nothing grows out here! See this?  This is sand. You know what it's gonna be a hundred years from now?  It's going to be sand! Get your kids, get your shit, we'll make one trip, we'll take you to where the food is!"  -- Skierpage (talk) 05:11, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nothing about his famine routine? 

message: Someone has nominated :File:Sam Kinison.jpg for deletion. 70.49.124.225 (talk) 04:16, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Sam Kinison.jpg]] 

message: He was married five days before his untimely death.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.34.211 (talk) 11:24, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Days of Marriage 

message: There are zero references to the Stern show?  He was a guest at least 100 times. Artificial Nagger (talk) 04:46, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Howard Stern 

message: The Ron Shock article reads Shock, himself the founder of Texas Outlaw Comics, said Kinison was not in Texas Outlaw Comics, but rather Outlaws of Comedy.  The Texas Outlaw Comics and Sam Kinison articles say he was.  Which was it? 71.62.226.224 (talk) 14:56, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was Kinison in Texas Outlaw Comics?