Sam kinison

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

With any other celebrity, people come up and say, 'Hey, I really like your work.' But with my fans, when they see me, they don't even say hello. They just go, 'AWWWWWGHGHHHGHGHRRR!'

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.

Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.

I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.

Everything can be satirized.

I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.