If you made a list of all the comedians that have succeeded, you
\ncan probably split them into those that find comedy in real-life
\nand those that find comedy in the absurd. Sam Kinison was the type
\nof comedian that succesfully mingled both and found comedy in all
\nparts of life. (Can’t you tell I liked him?)<\/p>\n
I don’t know of any comedians (OK, probably George Carlin) that
\nwould find comedy in the birth of Jesus, but Kinison does. When he
\njokes around with how Joseph must have felt with Mary’s pregnancy
\n(“He just said he was an angel and you guys went into the
\ngarden??!!), he transceds any blasphemy and makes us connect with
\nJoseph’s feelings – which, if you’ve read the Bible, were not
\nalways the purest. Not only that, but he also is able to reveal how
\nfar apart some TV Evangelists got from Jesus (“I never said build a
\nwater slide and use it as a tax write-off!!!”).<\/p>\n
He also manages to poke holes into the anti-drunk driving
\ncampaign (“I hope I slide into a family of six tonight!), safe sex
\n(“What’s the ski mask for, boss?”) and Jim Bakker’s fall (“Hey,
\nhoney, it’s him!!! Hahaha!). His timing in moving from topic to
\ntopic is incredible–though a bit undercut by the CD.<\/p>\n
Above all, Kinison manages to sound very honest in all the
\ntopics he tackles. When he speaks of his failed marriages, he sound
\ncompletely like the guy who knows what he’s talking about. When he
\nmanages to rile up all of the guys into declaring their love for
\ntheir wives, he does it in the funniest of manners – by asking them
\nif they love their wives enough to sleep with another woman.
\nFinally, as he speaks of screwing the next guy whom your current
\ngirlfriend might go out with – “be the nastiest, darkest, chapter
\nin her sexual diary” – or when he talks about homosexual
\nnecrophilliacs (“It never ends!”), he infuses it with both an
\nimpish sense of humor as well as a shock that someone might even
\nthink of doing things like that.<\/p>\n
To top it all of, there’s the classic rework of “Wild Thing.”
\nThough by now this type of music might sound outdated, the loud
\nscream of Kinison firmly cements the humourous\/angry tone of the
\nsong. As a girl in one of my classes said, it’s the guy’s version
\nof Alanis Morrissette’s “You Oughta Know.” (I think this is a MUCH
\nbetter song).<\/p>\n
It’s so sad to know that someone with such talent ended so
\ntragically or that he found very little joy in his own life. But
\nKinison would have liked us to laugh and not cry–and this CD will
\ndo that. Like Sam says, “People at the back must be thinking,
\n‘Jesus, this is the sickest, most disgusting thing I’ve ever heard
\nin my life. WRONG! I can top it!!!!!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":27828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6417],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-39212","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-sam-kinison","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39212"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}