Posts Tagged ‘Sam Kinison’


LOUIS C.K. AND SAM KINISON GET THE HARDCORE SHIRT TREATMENT

Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 12:30pm by

So, hey, remember that awesome Larry David/Motörhead shirt mash-up that Vince discovered a couple of years back? Sure you do — friggin’ thing is hilarious. And if you live in NYC and have been to a show since the shirt’s release, chances are you’ve even seen Vince wearing it a few times. I mean, the thing was practically made for Vince.

ANYWAY, now there are two more shirts from the same designer, and while neither one is quite as cool, they’re still both pretty rockin’. The first amalgamates Louis C.K. and The Dead Kennedys, while the second melds Sam Kinison — possibly my favorite stand-up of all time — with with Samhain. You can check ‘em out below, or order them for yourself here. They’re only fifteen bucks each (not counting tax and shipping and handling), but they’re also super limited edition — as of this writing, there’s only seven of the Louis C.K. shirts left! — so go get on that shit ASAP, ya heard?

 

-AR

[via Badass Digest]

BEFORE BRIAN POSEHN, SAM KINISON WAS THE MOST METAL COMEDIAN IN THE WORLD

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 at 2:03pm by

I haven’t watched any of Sam Kinison’s old stand-up in years, so I have no idea how his work holds up – but when I was a younger, I thought he was just about the funniest human being that had ever lived, and when he died, I was really, really upset about it.

I heard recently that HBO is making a TV movie about Kinison’s life – which is why I was thinking about him again – and I suddenly remembered Kinison’s video for his cover of “Wild Thing.”

Today the video seems vastly inferior to Brian Posehn’s “Metal by Numbers,” because a) that song is actually about metal, b) that song isn’t a cover, and c) that song doesn’t have Tommy Lee in its video. But at the time, this clip was the shit – I mean, in addition to the aforementioned Lee, it also features Slash, Billy Idol, Richie Sambora, members of Aerosmith and Ratt, and Jessica Hahn’s tits.

-AR