Sam Kinison Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three weeks! My friends, if you can come up with thirteen grand, you don't have a problem yet.

  Sam Kinison

  Funny, Three, Cost

• There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.

  Sam Kinison

  Funny, Running, Jail

• Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

  Sam Kinison

  Art, Comedy, Form

• Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.

  Sam Kinison

  Real, Thinking, People

• When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

  Sam Kinison

  Men, Target, Comedy

• 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.

  Sam Kinison

  Moving, Careers, Numbers

• In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

  Sam Kinison

  Gay, Space, Community

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