True story: Around 1990-91 Sam Kinison was playing at the the Stambaugh auditorium in Youngstown Ohio. I took off a Wednesday from bartending for the first time in three years and brought my brother who was also a huge fan. We laughed so hard I almost fell out into the aisle laughing. The next day I went back to work and everyone including both owners said Sam Kinison stopped by with his bus and I thought this was a huge joke on me so I ignored everything they said. They said, Sam went behind my bar and did a routine and showed how to get high off a can of whip cream then took everyone on his bus. One the waitresses told him I was a big fan and he signed the back of a menu "To David From Sam Waaaaaaaaaa!" a few days later the pictures were developed and he was there behind the bar with a can of whip cream in his mouth. I was ill for months afterwords.
It was Kenton since he is my favorite comedian of all-time and everyone I worked with rubbed it in for weeks. But his death till this day bothers me. I can't even envision his comedy and insights if he lived until 2019.
Sam was a regular at the Comedy Store in Hollywood and was always hysterical! He drove a Corvette with EX REV on his license plate. A Hollywood legend!
He killed himself at the age of 67, while talking on the phone with his wife when his family was visiting him, including his son. The data on drug addicts and well being is not encouraging (there is a reason they seek chemicals to make them feel good). That guy's life probably was terrible. You don't kill yourself due to excess well being from being high on life.
zr ent Some people aren’t meant to be here a long time. Neither are rainbows, eclipses, meteor showers, and fireworks displays. It’s uncanny how these people usually accomplish more in their short life than the average person in 2-4 times as long. Even non famous people who are of this wild breed are talked about and missed far more in their death than you tell stories about most people you know for years.
@@yourinnervoiceyourinnervoi8552 Well, I almost died at the age of 17 in a train accident and I'm glad I'm here playing with my grandkids and not a dead famous guy.
JunkBoxHero I am glad you are still around as well. I simply submit for thought that there seems to be a type of person that will have experiences, travel and meet people, which the average person will only dream of. These people will be revered by their social group, as well as occasionally by a large number of people through celebrity status, as being objects of legend. Many suffer mental health issues or substance abuse. I don’t advocate either suicide or drug abuse. I do know what I see and have lived. Examples: Robin Williams, Tesla, Belushi, Van Gogh, Jimi Hendrix,
I believe the outrageousness of them, the only thing I don't buy at this point is half of the "I was there" aspect of people telling them. Partying with Sam has become the "I was at Woodstock" of anyone involved in comedy.
@@kentonkruger8333 so true! People somehow think in their heads that if they can attach themselves to somebody as famous and legendary as Sam Kinison, their social status and worth goes up😝. As far as the days strait of partying & amount of drugs done on top of just insane fearlessness shit he would pull, is attributed to a head injury that changed his personality he had as a kid.
If you didn’t believe it he wouldn’t be as funny. His natural talent to make people laugh was and is one of the greatest ever, dark humour and genius comes from a dark place
After reading that, I feel I should elaborate. Lenny is the comedian, and the City of Boston is the town... DAMN IT!! I messed this up wicked hard! This was my first reply ever, and I frickin blew it. Sorry, guys...
Testimony - Between the ages of 15-25 I was a bum, alcoholic, fornicator, adulterer…Couldn’t do nothing in life and had a lazy work ethic…Was a stand-up comedian for 2 years because I saw Sam Kinison perform and I felt I related to him and tried to emulate him in my life. I did. Fornication, adultery, filthy mouth, etc… I appeared in comedy clubs in Philadelphia and South Florida. I was performing at a club where Franklin Ajaye was the headliner and Brian Regan was the opening act. I was one of the other six comedians on the bill that night. I thought I was on my way to fame and fortune. A few years later Sam Kinison died and that “rocked” my world. I thought man if he could die like that (suddenly) who am I? At that time I thought all of my heroes were dead now - Moe, Larry, Curly, Ronnie Van Zant, Elvis Presley, Jim Morrisson, John lennon, etc..Now, Sam Kinision. I realized that life is futile and fleeting and fame and money will not save you in that hour of death… Eventually I realized I was a sinner in the hands of a Holy God. I had broken all of the TEN COMMANDMENTS and there was no hope for my soul. I was guilty. One Sunday night in 1992 instead of watching football or the TV show Married with Children I went to Church and heard an evangelist preach and I knew God was speaking to me through his son Jesus Christ. (Romans 10:13 - For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved) Well, I called upon Jesus to save me, and I was at that same instant. All of the pain and heartbrokeness that I experienced in my life left me. Almost like invisible weights that held me down my whole life left me and I have not been the same since. That same peace and joy can be yours if you let Jesus save you as well.
I only really remember him from his appearances on Fox shows like Married with Children and In Living Color. Something about Sam being Al Bundy's Guardian Angel is just.. hilarious and perfect.
@BosoxnationI972 dumbest shit I ever heard I'm not a kid I'm a grown ass man I seen all his stand ups even Don rickles, Richard pryor,Eddie Murphy etc.etc.. it's just a great scene with two iconic comedians so take ur shit for brains opinion somewhere else 😂😂😂😂
Everyone has their opinion. I personally think Sam was one of the BEST of all time. I get people think he was repetitive or he relied on gimmicks, but he paved the way for lots of comedians to explore the highs and lows of cadence and delivery. He would start off real quiet and composed, and then just start screaming and getting huge pops from the crowd… Such a brilliant mind that was plagued by drug addiction and self doubt… Long live the king!
He lived his life on the wild side and to think he died in a random car crash. I like to believe the story that he was talking to someone right before he passed. Someone told him it was ok to go.
Sam Kinison's first HBO Special from the Comedy Store with the twins at the beginning - later he introduced Hugh Hefner - is a very close second to the greatest stand-up movie ever - Richard Pryor-live in concert - from around 1977. Before his addictions took over - Sam Kinison was truly brilliant. Sad he's gone.
Never forget being up late watching a comedy special from Dangerfields that featured Sam in his early years, I was like 17 or something, that was showing on HBO. For some reason I taped it because I was tired and didn’t think I’d stay up that late. Never laughed so hard in my life. Next day I call my friends over to have them watch this. We all became instant fans and would quote those jokes for years.
For years, I laughed my ass off at Sam Kinison’s jokes about marriage long before I was married. Now that I’m married, listening to those jokes are even funnier because I can relate. The face of hell lol!!!!
"This is the face of every married man when he looks in the bathroom mirror every morning. rrrroooaaaAAAAAAAGGHHHHH!!!! WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO TO MY LIFE????!!!! OW AUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Rodney Dangerfield's Young Comedians Special, 1985 (The one w/the legendary Solution To The Hunger Problem = Stop Sending Food, Send Trucks Bit)
I saw Sam at the Living Room in Providence RI before he hit it big. His first album had just come out and he crushed it. I still remember his manager standing next to us in the crowd saying ‘this is the last small show he will be at, he is about to get huge”. Prophetic words.
Lenny Clarke is awesome. I hope he is doing well, he looks 100 times better since losing weight. Sam Kinison was a mad man genius. I was lucky enough to see him live at The China Club in Los Angeles at his peak. I had VIP seating as usual when I was balling back in the '80s and 90's and at the table next to me was John Entwistle (bass player for the Who) and at the table behind me was Eddie Murphy and Charlie Murphy. What a show. Sam's performance was incredible. The place was rocking and he set it ablaze. God rest Sam's soul.
I saw Sam Kinison live at the bar at Elvis Presleys home in Palm Springs super high with lines in front of him while still telling jokes to the few of us that were present and staying at Presleys for a night, AFTER his show at Comedy Haven in Palm Springs. Also present was Rudy Sarzo and possibly his wife Rebecca (@33 years ago) along with his opening act and just a couple others. Night to remember forever ❤ loved Sam
I saw Sam during college in 86. My two buddies and I were 1st row at the Chesnut Cabaret as one of my friends was an aspiring comedian. I have seen many greats and to this day, he show was the best.
I really strapped in for a great story after that intro, Eggbert. What happened after I clicked "more...", you wonder?... I immediately regretted my decision is what happened, Eggbert. I believe you owe me, all of the other readers, and most of all, your 3rd grade English teacher an apology.
To hear these road, hotel, venue stories from comedians, pro wrestlers, band members, the craziness that went on. What a time to be alive and to have lived those stories.
Its true about the Challenger disaster. I remember watching it in my 2nd grade class in southern NH where the teacher, Christa McAuliffe, who was on board the Challenger was from, as it EXPLODED! It was crazy. The teachers were in tears (they knew her) and didn't know what to do! Kids screaming and crying, a friend of mine was like, "awesome!" Cuz he thought it looked like something out of Star Wars... It was a crazy scene.
One night, I hung out with Sam, Diceman, and Pauly Shore at the bar outside of the Comedy Store. Fans in car after car driving by would beg for Sam to do his scream, and the man obliged them every time with an Ah-AHHHHHH!!!
@@joez203 Gosh, it must have been sometime after 1985 when I began hanging out on the strip. The night started with Pauly coming up to me saying, "Okay dude, you're a witness. Sam and Diceman are actually making up! They've forgiven and forgotten and only you and I are witnessing history!" Well that was quite an honor for me. A little while later, Leslie Nielsen came driving by in a goofy looking old white car and waved at us. It was quite a night...
First time I saw Bad Sam was on a HBO special in the early 80's. I laughed so hard I fell off my chair. Unbelievable and will never be forgotten. RIP Bad Sam Kinison.
I lived in Tulsa for years. Stood on Kinison's grave and read that epitaph many times. Sam was my all time favorite. He very rarely came to Tulsa to do comedy, because, that's where he used to preach. He was doing a one-time appearance in Tulsa, and I was set to go. My boss at the time said I had to work or get fired that night. I worked. Huge mistake. Sam died not too long afterwards.
My favorite Kinison bit was on the Carson show where he started sitting at a piano, seriously singing and playing "Are You Lonesome Tonight". Very nice voice. At the break of the song, where the lyrics are spoken, he says " Are you lonesome tonight? Maybe its because YOU'RE BITCH! OH! YOU'RE SUCH A BITCH"! I fell on the floor laughing. Miss ya Sam.
I have a friend since jr high school who had a bad car accident in high school and was fearless after that. He was a downhill skier in the Poconos with Jean Claude Killy. He later went out as a ski instructor in Vail, Colorado and Sun Valley, Idaho. He also was a fearless dirt biker as well besides having his own painting business.
I was one of those kids in school watching that shuttle launch. I will never in my life forget it because of the way my teacher acted. I am 45 years old now and that was grade school. But I can still remember everything that happened after that shuttle exploded. It was the last time we watched a shuttle launch in school.
The teacher who passed in the Challenger shuttle accident was Christa McAuliffe. She taught in my hometown. The teacher who subbed for Christa while she was in the NASA program lived directly below my apt (Eileen liked to argue about whose turn it was to shovel the walk, just cuz she had to do it once...lol). January 28, 1986 was a day I'll never forget - almost on par with the day JFK was shot. Easy to remember exactly where you were, who was there, etc; like a video time-stamp in your brain.
@@harrynutsackk No, he's right Sam did get clean before his death, and he was killed by a collision with drunken teenagers, but you can look it up yourself if you wish, however regardless of who's information is historically accurate do you really need to insult each other ?
@@justindenney-hall5875 3rd Party interloper. Sam was NOT clean, NOT EVEN CLOSE. You are as dumb as the other one. Google the fucking story, You lazy ass lemming. I was in my 20s when he died, not only do i remember the story, i remember the Multiple bullshit stories as well. Instead of replying and making yourself look even more stupid, Google the fucking story and READ. Its bad enough some moron says i am wrong, Without researching the facts of the event, then i get another jackass, that would be you, saying the same dumb shit, when all You have to do is take 5 fucking minutes and do a damn google search. Fucking lemmings, Christ you people have lost all fucking common sense. The majority of You sheep dont even know how to research, You are so used to being Fed your programming.
@@harrynutsackk No, you're not a dick. You're just a vintage dipshit raised in a world where all of your word of mouth information is wrong and you're offended by it now.
wtf i can relate to the car accident thing, i was a pretty reckless kid when i was 18 already but after this terrible accident where i was actually totally fine, one friends face was so covered with blood from a cut on his head in the dark it just looked like a rush of blackness over his face and the other one was in the icu for over a month because he actually got thrown out of the car and it hit him while he was falling and broke his back and all these other gnarly injuries , but i was recently thinking maybe something happened to me even though i didnt show any external injuries, things got wayy out of control after that. i still have problems with impulse control and am a recovering addict. i would walk around stores at like 11am in pajamas and a bath robe drinking beer from a large mcdoanlds cup and going back to the car multiple times to refill it with O.E. i didnt care about much before that but after i did not give a fuck about anything or what anyone said and thought.
I love you in this comment. As one man to another in a clearly non homosexual way. Just one buff dude wearing an oily wifebeater to another BUFF dude who is a firefighter and his shirt was freshly burned off during that big, sweaty fire he was fighting earlier and a bit of his chest hair was singed. Commere' buddy! *Brohugz* !
I never get tired of road stories from pro wrestlers and comics from the 80’s and 90’s. Lenny Clark is a great storyteller/comic. I miss the likes of Kinison and Hicks. Comics used to go for laughs. Now? Too many just want cheers of agreement.
@@tapoemt3995 stories are alot different than prancing around in leotards playing grab @$$ with dudes and then playing off your whole fantasy as if it's a competitive sport and make a hall of fame for your game of grab @$$. It's a ridiculous brain melting side show and there is nothing competitive about it and there is nothing sport about touching booties and pre-determined outcomes
@@tapoemt3995 stories are different than playing grab @$$ with dudes prancing around in leotards where they play it off like their fantasy is a sport so they make a hall of fame of grab @$$ there's no competition and no sport involved in pre determined outcomes the WWE is a sideshow brainwash It melts brains and destroys critical thinking producing zombified masses of fools 👎
thank you joe for this interview, I love Sam and am just starting out in stand up comedy myself. Again thank you ...and more Hunter Thompson stories, PLEASE!
Awwww, this was really great. Just happened to be in my suggestion feed. Sam was a unique comic and really 'risque' at a time when comedy was more cerebral and staid. You listen to this guys stories and you can almost put yourself there- when a comic was also a rockstar. Even though time has faded the memory of his tenure, I'm glad he got to experience the level of success and excess that he deserved.
Friend of mine had the exact same thing. He was timid and depressed, got hit by a car and all fucked up. Had her knee and shoulder reconstructed and woke up from a coma not remembering who she was, couldn't even remember her parents. She read her diaries and figured that girl sucked. From then on she was flamboyant and outgoing.
ChillsWithSloths I couldn’t have said it better. I agree the most civilized comment. People need to take a joke from time to time. When I was bullied and my dad put me on steroids and sent me boxing and racket club to train with terry Norris and wayne in el cajón san Diego to learn to fight back against the racist bullies who happen to all be gang affiliated, I won, but I lost in the end. Juvi, then tried as adult for assault with attempted murder charges slapped on and gang affiliation conspiracy lingering for fighting gangsters that I didn’t know were affiliated, was the least of my problems. Being stabbed in fights and not knowing I was stabbed turned into a shooting. When I realized how stupid both sides of this was, making a joke about my race or what they said took away the hate and brought me more respect and positivity than ever before. I could even make a joke to the man who shot me and he gave me a hug and said there was no hate, it was forced upon him to retaliate with a gun by other members. He apologized and we are still friends today. Even cleared my name with the others and bought me a blue SD hat and jersey as a joke back to me because of their gang colors and the situation before. They even have 2 white members now. I’m not proud of more people joining a criminal gang but I’m happy we single handidly killed hateful racism between a large group and I and now potentially other civilians because of comedy. Note to you fu***ng racist “woke” socialist left extremist and dumb ass new versions calling themselves liberals, take a joke. The late and great ralphie may once said, if you can take a d!ck in the butt, then you can damn sure take a joke. Don’t kill comedy because it involves race sex religion and /or sexual preference, let yourself laugh at it, and then laugh at the ones saying it over their views and it takes away the power of any hate people can use with it. Don’t kill the last thing Americans have to get a break from political motivated agendas that’s in everything now, and our last form of freedom being stolen from us now too. News, Sports, tv, and now Comedy are being politically influenced and even paid for to influence and control these agendas to conspiratorially divide our communities now in the U.S after we learned about how the drugs guns crime and gangs being brought in, given, and taught to us by these same people to divide race and communities before. Turn off the tv and read a book before turning into psychotic new versions of terrorists or extremist accidentally working for these people because you are just ignorant to the information given to you through their agenda. Blindly following these sick people because your ignorant is disgusting and sad to see because we are watching you and your soul being sold without you even aware of it and won’t take a minute of your time to humor the idea of reading or even look at the other side of the information that’s fact and:or not being pushed and paid for through an agenda to you or to anyone else. Rant completed. Laugh at this psycho and laugh at jokes even if you think it’s hateful or crazy
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True story: Around 1990-91 Sam Kinison was playing at the the Stambaugh auditorium in Youngstown Ohio. I took off a Wednesday from bartending for the first time in three years and brought my brother who was also a huge fan. We laughed so hard I almost fell out into the aisle laughing. The next day I went back to work and everyone including both owners said Sam Kinison stopped by with his bus and I thought this was a huge joke on me so I ignored everything they said. They said, Sam went behind my bar and did a routine and showed how to get high off a can of whip cream then took everyone on his bus. One the waitresses told him I was a big fan and he signed the back of a menu "To David From Sam Waaaaaaaaaa!" a few days later the pictures were developed and he was there behind the bar with a can of whip cream in his mouth. I was ill for months afterwords.
Man, that had to be such a huge kick in the gut.
It was Kenton since he is my favorite comedian of all-time and everyone I worked with rubbed it in for weeks. But his death till this day bothers me. I can't even envision his comedy and insights if he lived until 2019.
I was at that show in Youngstown! I think it was 89-90. I got to meet him that night, nicest guy ever.
During the show he was asking the audience where to buy whip-its(nitrous/CO2) and they told him about a head shop that was nearby
Lol. That’s better than a kinison joke. Thank you for your misery
Sam was a regular at the Comedy Store in Hollywood and was always hysterical! He drove a Corvette with EX REV on his license plate. A Hollywood legend!
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me - Hunter S. Thompson
He killed himself at the age of 67, while talking on the phone with his wife when his family was visiting him, including his son.
The data on drug addicts and well being is not encouraging (there is a reason they seek chemicals to make them feel good). That guy's life probably was terrible.
You don't kill yourself due to excess well being from being high on life.
@@relaxingaudioforchillongou488 You beat me to it. Everything you said is 100% accurate.
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Some people aren’t meant to be here a long time. Neither are rainbows, eclipses, meteor showers, and fireworks displays. It’s uncanny how these people usually accomplish more in their short life than the average person in 2-4 times as long. Even non famous people who are of this wild breed are talked about and missed far more in their death than you tell stories about most people you know for years.
@@yourinnervoiceyourinnervoi8552 Well, I almost died at the age of 17 in a train accident and I'm glad I'm here playing with my grandkids and not a dead famous guy.
JunkBoxHero
I am glad you are still around as well. I simply submit for thought that there seems to be a type of person that will have experiences, travel and meet people, which the average person will only dream of. These people will be revered by their social group, as well as occasionally by a large number of people through celebrity status, as being objects of legend. Many suffer mental health issues or substance abuse. I don’t advocate either suicide or drug abuse. I do know what I see and have lived. Examples: Robin Williams, Tesla, Belushi, Van Gogh, Jimi Hendrix,
Sam Kinison is one of the few comedians you can believe every story about.
I've only now heard about him. There really are people like that in the world. And those people, the crazier the story, the more legit it actually is
I believe the outrageousness of them, the only thing I don't buy at this point is half of the "I was there" aspect of people telling them. Partying with Sam has become the "I was at Woodstock" of anyone involved in comedy.
@@kentonkruger8333 so true! People somehow think in their heads that if they can attach themselves to somebody as famous and legendary as Sam Kinison, their social status and worth goes up😝.
As far as the days strait of partying & amount of drugs done on top of just insane fearlessness shit he would pull, is attributed to a head injury that changed his personality he had as a kid.
If you didn’t believe it he wouldn’t be as funny. His natural talent to make people laugh was and is one of the greatest ever, dark humour and genius comes from a dark place
Him and Joey Diaz
I really miss Sam. Saw him five times. Never a bad show.
Saw him three weeks before he was killed. We were third row. Called a friend of mine girlfriend. Her mom answered what a show. RIP bad Sam
Sad he’s gone 😞
DigitalRanger I saw him twice! I totally agree with you.
Fuck that loud mouth puke.. ;)
Very lucky to be alive and see him .... Cheers 🍺🍺🍺🍺
This is the first Joe Rogan show I've watched in its entirety. Love Lenny Clark. Good health to you sir.
It's Clarke with a eeeee
Sam stories are great, but Lenny Clarke is a legend in his own right. One of the best pods i've heard in a while.
LeroyBrown93 what show did Lenny play on?
Great stories,I could listion to Lenny for hours!
Rescue Me
Baddest comedian in the whole damn town...
After reading that, I feel I should elaborate. Lenny is the comedian, and the City of Boston is the town... DAMN IT!! I messed this up wicked hard! This was my first reply ever, and I frickin blew it. Sorry, guys...
"I WILLED THIS!"
Holy shit, lol.
Entirely believable story. God, he was so wild.
I met Sam Kinison in Vancouver in the elevator of a hotel I was applying for a job. he signed the back of my resume. super nice guy
Did you get the job ?
Sam is my comedy hero. I cried like a baby when that man died. Imagine the material we missed out on the last 30 years. FFS!! Rest in peace ✌️
Same here, not a comic ever made me cry. Robin Williams was a taught obe to get over too
Testimony - Between the ages of 15-25 I was a bum, alcoholic, fornicator, adulterer…Couldn’t do nothing in life and had a lazy work ethic…Was a stand-up comedian for 2 years because I saw Sam Kinison perform and I felt I related to him and tried to emulate him in my life. I did. Fornication, adultery, filthy mouth, etc… I appeared in comedy clubs in Philadelphia and South Florida. I was performing at a club where Franklin Ajaye was the headliner and Brian Regan was the opening act.
I was one of the other six comedians on the bill that night. I thought I was on my way to fame and fortune. A few years later Sam Kinison died and that “rocked” my world. I thought man if he could die like that (suddenly) who am I? At that time I thought all of my heroes were dead now - Moe, Larry, Curly, Ronnie Van Zant, Elvis Presley, Jim Morrisson, John lennon, etc..Now, Sam Kinision. I realized that life is futile and fleeting and fame and money will not save you in that hour of death…
Eventually I realized I was a sinner in the hands of a Holy God. I had broken all of the TEN COMMANDMENTS and there was no hope for my soul. I was guilty. One Sunday night in 1992 instead of watching football or the TV show Married with Children I went to Church and heard an evangelist preach and I knew God was speaking to me through his son Jesus Christ. (Romans 10:13 - For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved) Well, I called upon Jesus to save me, and I was at that same instant. All of the pain and heartbrokeness that I experienced in my life left me. Almost like invisible weights that held me down my whole life left me and I have not been the same since. That same peace and joy can be yours if you let Jesus save you as well.
Thanks for TELLING THE TRUTH. GOD BLESS YOU.
Yeah Lotta people need Jesus today. The world would be in a much better place.
I only really remember him from his appearances on Fox shows like Married with Children and In Living Color. Something about Sam being Al Bundy's Guardian Angel is just.. hilarious and perfect.
That was such a great episode.
Paulafan5 I love that episode. Fun fact: he was originally cast as Al Bundy and Roseanne Barr was cast as Peggy. Fun Fact 2: lm a Bundy
@@damnthetorpedoes3003 I didn't know either of those things. That's cool, I lived across the street from some Bundys.
Paulafan5 still funny today when I think about it
I heard they're going to remake Married With Children and make it all PC. I hate this pussy ass generation
Sam in the back to school scene with Rodney was hilarious 2 great comedians just awesome!
@BosoxnationI972 dumbest shit I ever heard I'm not a kid I'm a grown ass man I seen all his stand ups even Don rickles, Richard pryor,Eddie Murphy etc.etc.. it's just a great scene with two iconic comedians so take ur shit for brains opinion somewhere else 😂😂😂😂
Love Rodney! I saw him in Vegas and he had me rolling!
"You're getting married tomorrow? Remember this face."
Lmaooooo
Everyone has their opinion. I personally think Sam was one of the BEST of all time. I get people think he was repetitive or he relied on gimmicks, but he paved the way for lots of comedians to explore the highs and lows of cadence and delivery. He would start off real quiet and composed, and then just start screaming and getting huge pops from the crowd… Such a brilliant mind that was plagued by drug addiction and self doubt…
Long live the king!
You know, If I learn how to f*** really good...I wouldn't have to give half my sh** away, EVERY FIVE F*****G YEARS!!!
He lived his life on the wild side and to think he died in a random car crash. I like to believe the story that he was talking to someone right before he passed. Someone told him it was ok to go.
Some kids who were drunk hit and killed him. And he was on the road to recovery and had a stable relationship. Ironic doesn't even come close.
@@VoiceOfTheEmperor bastard kid Troy Pierson only got a year probation too. I only hope karma has caught up to him
Makes me think of Stevie Ray Vaughn, who also recovered from extreme drug & alcohol abuse, only to die in a plane crash.
@@tunafang stevie died in helicopter crash.
@@allencollins6031 Yes! My bad.
Sam Kinison's first HBO Special from the Comedy Store with the twins at the beginning - later he introduced Hugh Hefner - is a very close second to the greatest stand-up movie ever - Richard Pryor-live in concert - from around 1977. Before his addictions took over - Sam Kinison was truly brilliant. Sad he's gone.
Sam and Pryor are both from Peroria, Illinois
I miss Kinison. We really need more like him in this day and age.
More drug addicts... great!
Democracy & western philosophy was invented by Greeks tripping on ergot laced wine.
@@imnotimpressed420 yeah what about it lmao. can't restrain yourself in a short life
@@imnotimpressed420 you’re gay LMAO
Sam floating away is one of the best drug stories I've ever heard😂😂😂
i love how natural the idea to reach over and pull him down seems to have come
"Thank you Lenny"... lol
I wish they could find that guy Magic and find out what happened in that hotel room
Ten years ago Lenny was a 400 lb. Dead Man Walking ..... but he looks GREAT now. ... Good for him.
AND SODOMIZES WOMEN
@@rubberchix and what do you do sweety
I sodomize women. Should I not be?
He was a giant fat fuck tub of lard and through sheer tyranny of will this great man managed to shed that extra poundage. Good for him.
@@rubberchix God bless him for that
The story of his death of maybe seeing an angel or talking to god gave me chills .
Remember him as an angel in Married With...?
Well... If Marc Maron did so much cocaine with Sam, that he heard voices for a year....
😆 🤣 😂 you people believe anything
I met his mom in Tulsa. She was driving his car. Some kind of eighties cadillac. I knew his brother, had lunch with him. He was a preacher too.
@@imnotimpressed420 and you believe nothing???? 🤔🤔🤔
I could listen to Lenny Clarke forever.
I love that Challenger story. It's cool hearing personal anecdotes about what was going on with people when landmark events like that happened.
"Dangerously Trashed"
That would be a good name for his biopic
stories and personalities of a time that is never coming back! great times! RIP to all the greats
back in the day the mojo was different
Never forget being up late watching a comedy special from Dangerfields that featured Sam in his early years, I was like 17 or something, that was showing on HBO. For some reason I taped it because I was tired and didn’t think I’d stay up that late. Never laughed so hard in my life. Next day I call my friends over to have them watch this. We all became instant fans and would quote those jokes for years.
For years, I laughed my ass off at Sam Kinison’s jokes about marriage long before I was married. Now that I’m married, listening to those jokes are even funnier because I can relate. The face of hell lol!!!!
"This is the face of every married man when he looks in the bathroom mirror every morning.
rrrroooaaaAAAAAAAGGHHHHH!!!! WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO TO MY LIFE????!!!! OW AUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
Rodney Dangerfield's Young Comedians Special, 1985 (The one w/the legendary Solution To The Hunger Problem = Stop Sending Food, Send Trucks Bit)
It's spot on 😂
Average white 🍞
Hell would be like a club med! Cause I was married for two years!
@@imnotimpressed420 you’re gay lol
Lenny Clark reminds me a lot of Robert Loggia who played Feech La Manna on The Sopranos. REALLY funny.
I thought the dude with the hat in the thumbnail was the mom from “the goonies”.
HA! Fuckin yeah, I see it
Me too!!
Literally. I'd like to think everybody thought the exact same thing or saw Sam's name on Rogan n clicked immediately. Nobody left unsatisfied!
LMAO
🤣
His imitation of Sam is spot-on 😆👍🏻
Personally, I would go with "pretty good", but... It's Lenny. The judges tell me they will allow it. 👍
I saw Sam at the Living Room in Providence RI before he hit it big. His first album had just come out and he crushed it. I still remember his manager standing next to us in the crowd saying ‘this is the last small show he will be at, he is about to get huge”. Prophetic words.
His Sam impression is on point
I can listen to Lenny's accent all day!!!!!! They talk Kinison, but Lenny was/is a legend himself!
I could listen to Lenny tell old stories all day!!!
Wow I'm watching the full episode right now! This was perfect! The pace, the hilarity, everything was so great haha
Lenny Clarke is awesome. I hope he is doing well, he looks 100 times better since losing weight.
Sam Kinison was a mad man genius. I was lucky enough to see him live at The China Club in Los Angeles at his peak. I had VIP seating as usual when I was balling back in the '80s and 90's and at the table next to me was John Entwistle (bass player for the Who) and at the table behind me was Eddie Murphy and Charlie Murphy. What a show. Sam's performance was incredible. The place was rocking and he set it ablaze. God rest Sam's soul.
Yeah agree with you about Lenny, he's awesome.
I saw Sam Kinison live at the bar at Elvis Presleys home in Palm Springs super high with lines in front of him while still telling jokes to the few of us that were present and staying at Presleys for a night, AFTER his show at Comedy Haven in Palm Springs. Also present was Rudy Sarzo and possibly his wife Rebecca (@33 years ago) along with his opening act and just a couple others. Night to remember forever ❤ loved Sam
This is awesome! Sam Kinison stories never get old
I saw Sam during college in 86. My two buddies and I were 1st row at the Chesnut Cabaret as one of my friends was an aspiring comedian. I have seen many greats and to this day, he show was the best.
I really strapped in for a great story after that intro, Eggbert. What happened after I clicked "more...", you wonder?... I immediately regretted my decision is what happened, Eggbert. I believe you owe me, all of the other readers, and most of all, your 3rd grade English teacher an apology.
"I'm not a good role model for impressionable youth."
~ Sam
Damn it he was awesome when he was on his game!
I never heard of Sam Until today (I was born in 93...) and now I’m down a rabbit hole of videos lol
Enjoy the ride.
You will beg god to forget his face!!! AH AUGH!!!!
Sam > Dice
You were born TOO LATE!!!
HAHAHA HAHAHA
I never laughed so hard especially the being married bits. So fucking true.
To hear these road, hotel, venue stories from comedians, pro wrestlers, band members, the craziness that went on. What a time to be alive and to have lived those stories.
LOL! I love hearing old war stories from people back in the day
R.I.P Sam was a legend
I love hearing these stories about these great great comedians. Pure classics
I never laughed so hard in my life until I first saw him live. No comedian has made me laugh that way since.
You have bad taste in comedy
Louis ck is god
@@imnotimpressed420 you’re taste in music is gay lol
Its true about the Challenger disaster. I remember watching it in my 2nd grade class in southern NH where the teacher, Christa McAuliffe, who was on board the Challenger was from, as it EXPLODED! It was crazy. The teachers were in tears (they knew her) and didn't know what to do! Kids screaming and crying, a friend of mine was like, "awesome!" Cuz he thought it looked like something out of Star Wars... It was a crazy scene.
Kids will be kids😆
Only she's still alive
I don't think I have seen Joe laugh so hard as this in all his youtube videos.
You gotta see him with Joey diaz then. Joey almost gives him a heart attack from laughing
Wow...dude is an incredible story teller!
True that
One night, I hung out with Sam, Diceman, and Pauly Shore at the bar outside of the Comedy Store. Fans in car after car driving by would beg for Sam to do his scream, and the man obliged them every time with an Ah-AHHHHHH!!!
This guy fucked
Bryan, what year was this? I thought Sam hated Dice. And the two of them were hanging out together? How did THAT go?
@@joez203 Gosh, it must have been sometime after 1985 when I began hanging out on the strip. The night started with Pauly coming up to me saying, "Okay dude, you're a witness. Sam and Diceman are actually making up! They've forgiven and forgotten and only you and I are witnessing history!" Well that was quite an honor for me. A little while later, Leslie Nielsen came driving by in a goofy looking old white car and waved at us. It was quite a night...
@@joez203 it was just an act Sam and Dice put on that they hated each other .... it was material they used on stage too .
Things that never happened...
Great story! And respect to Joe Rogan for keeping Sam relevant ✊
First time I saw Bad Sam was on a HBO special in the early 80's. I laughed so hard I fell off my chair. Unbelievable and will never be forgotten. RIP Bad Sam Kinison.
I first saw him in Back to School and loved him.
I liked it untill his blasphemous jokes. Like...no.
13:58 “Thank you Lenny” LMFAO interconnected dude
Efin Hysterical “He starts to float away “ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
When Lenny said Sam was floating away and he went ti bring him down and Sam said thank you I laughed so hard I almost dropped my phone in concrete
Sam's insight was brilliant.
"In another time and place he would of been called a prophet". Miss ya Sam.
I was sad when he left...
Would have*
In today's social media/over sensitive me too shit his career might not even get off the ground
I lived in Tulsa for years. Stood on Kinison's grave and read that epitaph many times. Sam was my all time favorite. He very rarely came to Tulsa to do comedy, because, that's where he used to preach. He was doing a one-time appearance in Tulsa, and I was set to go. My boss at the time said I had to work or get fired that night. I worked. Huge mistake. Sam died not too long afterwards.
The Stone Age?
Lenny is a real bro. You can see it when he tells old stories with his friend.
The first time I heard Sam. He got me laughing do hard I couldn't breathe after awhile. Sam was the best.
hes honestly never made me laugh
My favorite Kinison bit was on the Carson show where he started sitting at a piano, seriously singing and playing "Are You Lonesome Tonight". Very nice voice. At the break of the song, where the lyrics are spoken, he says " Are you lonesome tonight? Maybe its because YOU'RE BITCH! OH! YOU'RE SUCH A BITCH"! I fell on the floor laughing. Miss ya Sam.
The way he tells a story is like a mixture between Callen and Joey Diaz. Amaaazing.
This is best Lenny appearance I’ve ever seen. So funny. Great Stories. Eric Clapton. Lol. R u kidding me? Wow
Lenny got Joe nervous twice … that’s how insane & fearless these comedians were … said anything and did anything.
I have a friend since jr high school who had a bad car accident in high school and was fearless after that. He was a downhill skier in the Poconos with Jean Claude Killy. He later went out as a ski instructor in Vail, Colorado and Sun Valley, Idaho. He also was a fearless dirt biker as well besides having his own painting business.
Lenny’s impression of Sam is a Top 10 on JRE
I can just imagine sam kinison yelling at the tv set in the 80's "I WILLED THIS TO HAPPEN!!!" with the beret and everything.
F YOU NASA I NEED SLEEP
Every once in a while we are gifted with people that push us forward and make us laugh.
Lenny is an exceptional raconteur!
I love how Lenny suddenly remembers a story....OH!
I was very fortunate to see Sam in the early 90's. Love love love Sam.
I could listen to this all day.
His impression is great lol “ohh OHHHH!”
I was one of those kids in school watching that shuttle launch. I will never in my life forget it because of the way my teacher acted. I am 45 years old now and that was grade school. But I can still remember everything that happened after that shuttle exploded. It was the last time we watched a shuttle launch in school.
The teacher who passed in the Challenger shuttle accident was Christa McAuliffe. She taught in my hometown. The teacher who subbed for Christa while she was in the NASA program lived directly below my apt (Eileen liked to argue about whose turn it was to shovel the walk, just cuz she had to do it once...lol). January 28, 1986 was a day I'll never forget - almost on par with the day JFK was shot. Easy to remember exactly where you were, who was there, etc; like a video time-stamp in your brain.
Sams comic session talking about ( no food / nothing growing in the dessert and the horned demon act ) are priceless!
It's like Gilliam's Fear and Loathing hotel room.
@ 8:27 "his head was broken" that was funny Joe!
Sam had pretty well cleaned up, when he died. His posthumous album was old school Sam.
He crashed, coked up and drunk. What are you talking about?
He was hit head on by a drunken teenager in a pickup truck, trying to pass someone. You should do some research, before you open your mouth.
@@harrynutsackk No, he's right Sam did get clean before his death, and he was killed by a collision with drunken teenagers, but you can look it up yourself if you wish, however regardless of who's information is historically accurate do you really need to insult each other ?
@@justindenney-hall5875 3rd Party interloper. Sam was NOT clean, NOT EVEN CLOSE. You are as dumb as the other one. Google the fucking story, You lazy ass lemming. I was in my 20s when he died, not only do i remember the story, i remember the Multiple bullshit stories as well. Instead of replying and making yourself look even more stupid, Google the fucking story and READ. Its bad enough some moron says i am wrong, Without researching the facts of the event, then i get another jackass, that would be you, saying the same dumb shit, when all You have to do is take 5 fucking minutes and do a damn google search. Fucking lemmings, Christ you people have lost all fucking common sense. The majority of You sheep dont even know how to research, You are so used to being Fed your programming.
@@harrynutsackk No, you're not a dick. You're just a vintage dipshit raised in a world where all of your word of mouth information is wrong and you're offended by it now.
Amazing golden stories about one of the greatest! 🙏
Love these old massive stories from a pivotal time in comedy.
wtf i can relate to the car accident thing, i was a pretty reckless kid when i was 18 already but after this terrible accident where i was actually totally fine, one friends face was so covered with blood from a cut on his head in the dark it just looked like a rush of blackness over his face and the other one was in the icu for over a month because he actually got thrown out of the car and it hit him while he was falling and broke his back and all these other gnarly injuries , but i was recently thinking maybe something happened to me even though i didnt show any external injuries, things got wayy out of control after that. i still have problems with impulse control and am a recovering addict. i would walk around stores at like 11am in pajamas and a bath robe drinking beer from a large mcdoanlds cup and going back to the car multiple times to refill it with O.E. i didnt care about much before that but after i did not give a fuck about anything or what anyone said and thought.
VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY. POLITICALLY UNCORRECT. WE NEED HIM NOW.!
i loved him on Rescue Me.. fuggin' great man
I love you in this comment. As one man to another in a clearly non homosexual way. Just one buff dude wearing an oily wifebeater to another BUFF dude who is a firefighter and his shirt was freshly burned off during that big, sweaty fire he was fighting earlier and a bit of his chest hair was singed. Commere' buddy! *Brohugz* !
Thanks for the stories of a legend.
I never get tired of road stories from pro wrestlers and comics from the 80’s and 90’s. Lenny Clark is a great storyteller/comic. I miss the likes of Kinison and Hicks. Comics used to go for laughs. Now? Too many just want cheers of agreement.
Lul wrestling
@@hihihihihello Andre the giant stories alone are well worth the listen.
@@tapoemt3995 stories are alot different than prancing around in leotards playing grab @$$ with dudes and then playing off your whole fantasy as if it's a competitive sport and make a hall of fame for your game of grab @$$. It's a ridiculous brain melting side show and there is nothing competitive about it and there is nothing sport about touching booties and pre-determined outcomes
@@tapoemt3995 stories are different than playing grab @$$ with dudes prancing around in leotards where they play it off like their fantasy is a sport so they make a hall of fame of grab @$$ there's no competition and no sport involved in pre determined outcomes the WWE is a sideshow brainwash It melts brains and destroys critical thinking producing zombified masses of fools 👎
Lenny's voice us Sam is dead on, it's scary. Someone needs to do an animated movie about Sam and have Lenny as the voice.
I think the lesson here is...always do all the drugs.
Yeah it worked out well for him 🙄
@@merces47letifer4 drugs didn't kill him. A drunken teenager did.
I support this
Deuce Pickle 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭
You all act like life is so special sam lived man and the irony of getting killed by a drunk driver was the comedic cherry on top. RIP LEGEND!
thank you joe for this interview, I love Sam and am just starting out in stand up comedy myself. Again thank you ...and more Hunter Thompson stories, PLEASE!
Chris Farley was hit by a car as a child also.
They are all actually the same person.
poor car
Poor car
I was hit by a car. Still not a comic genius...
Really? He had head trauma as well?
“I willed this. I fucking WILLLLED THIS”
I watched this entire video with my eyes wide open. Holy shit, these stories! Wow!
I got hit by a car on my 16th birthday.
All it changed was my physical pain level.
What a gyp...
If at first you don't succeed...
Don Miller Good stuff
THE FLAME THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT....BURNS HALF AS LONG. RIP SAM
There will never be another one like Kiniston
There never was a Kiniston
Nikki Nevada Isola
I’m sorry you feel that way.
Thank God for that
..one fuck like him.is enough; )
Awwww, this was really great. Just happened to be in my suggestion feed. Sam was a unique comic and really 'risque' at a time when comedy was more cerebral and staid. You listen to this guys stories and you can almost put yourself there- when a comic was also a rockstar. Even though time has faded the memory of his tenure, I'm glad he got to experience the level of success and excess that he deserved.
He does a really good impression of his scream
Love hearing stories about Kinison.
Sam Kinison was the Hunter S. Thompson of comedy.
Friend of mine had the exact same thing. He was timid and depressed, got hit by a car and all fucked up. Had her knee and shoulder reconstructed and woke up from a coma not remembering who she was, couldn't even remember her parents. She read her diaries and figured that girl sucked. From then on she was flamboyant and outgoing.
Lol blood and chicks crying in the hotel.... He was a true savage man, most civilized thing about him was the way he made a joke of it all
Fuck, I REALLY want to know what the hell happened.
ChillsWithSloths I couldn’t have said it better. I agree the most civilized comment. People need to take a joke from time to time. When I was bullied and my dad put me on steroids and sent me boxing and racket club to train with terry Norris and wayne in el cajón san Diego to learn to fight back against the racist bullies who happen to all be gang affiliated, I won, but I lost in the end. Juvi, then tried as adult for assault with attempted murder charges slapped on and gang affiliation conspiracy lingering for fighting gangsters that I didn’t know were affiliated, was the least of my problems. Being stabbed in fights and not knowing I was stabbed turned into a shooting. When I realized how stupid both sides of this was, making a joke about my race or what they said took away the hate and brought me more respect and positivity than ever before. I could even make a joke to the man who shot me and he gave me a hug and said there was no hate, it was forced upon him to retaliate with a gun by other members. He apologized and we are still friends today. Even cleared my name with the others and bought me a blue SD hat and jersey as a joke back to me because of their gang colors and the situation before. They even have 2 white members now. I’m not proud of more people joining a criminal gang but I’m happy we single handidly killed hateful racism between a large group and I and now potentially other civilians because of comedy. Note to you fu***ng racist “woke” socialist left extremist and dumb ass new versions calling themselves liberals, take a joke. The late and great ralphie may once said, if you can take a d!ck in the butt, then you can damn sure take a joke. Don’t kill comedy because it involves race sex religion and /or sexual preference, let yourself laugh at it, and then laugh at the ones saying it over their views and it takes away the power of any hate people can use with it. Don’t kill the last thing Americans have to get a break from political motivated agendas that’s in everything now, and our last form of freedom being stolen from us now too. News, Sports, tv, and now
Comedy are being politically influenced and even paid for to influence and control these agendas to conspiratorially divide our communities now in the U.S after we learned about how the drugs guns crime and gangs being brought in, given, and taught to us by these same people to divide race and communities before. Turn off the tv and read a book before turning into psychotic new versions of terrorists or extremist accidentally working for these people because you are just ignorant to the information given to you through their agenda. Blindly following these sick people because your ignorant is disgusting and sad to see because we are watching you and your soul being sold without you even aware of it and won’t take a minute of your time to humor the idea of reading or even look at the other side of the information that’s fact and:or not being pushed and paid for through an agenda to you or to anyone else. Rant completed. Laugh at this psycho and laugh at jokes even if you think it’s hateful or crazy
@@biometrics4367 Dude, wtf go see a therapist ffs. No need for the storybook comment.
A T right? This dude wrote a fuckin Steven King novel
@@biometrics4367 Nerd.
I could listen to these stories all fuckin day