Missing Sam Kinison

How many of you know, we lost comedian Sam Kinison in a car accident in 1992. For those of you who do not remind us of him, Sam was a "heavy metal" comedian, who described well-known for that obscene and disrespectful. It is interesting that prior to becoming a comedian, he was ordained Pentecostal minister. But he was better known for his shock-rock humor, biting comments made our day. It seemed no one spared, but his favorite targets were the Rev. Jim BakkerPTL Club and his wife Tammy, Jessica Hahn, the Pope, Oral Roberts, religion in general, hunger in the world, gays and various comments about Sex, Drugs and Rock n'Roll. I can cry me vividly of his brand. His humor would make just about every blush, but behind it all you had to admit it was a moment of truth and wisdom in his comedy, and that's what ultimately made it to the public. Many do not understand how a former minister was so vulgar, but as for me, I clearlyunderstood what he was trying to tell us.

What's sad is that Sam cut fell just as the times change and we needed his biting humor more than ever. Sam had survived, imagine what he had with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, drummer Tommy Lee and Pam Anderson, Anna Nicole Smith and Paris Hilton can do. But Sam's humor was not limited to sex, I would have liked to hear his take on Windows and Bill Gates, SteveJobs and the iPod, the Internet, the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, Iraq and Saddam Hussein, immigration, and so on. Unfortunately, Sam missed a period which would give him more fodder for his humor, when he could have imagined. This was not to be however.

What few people know is that shortly before his death, Sam was planning on giving up comedy and again, a minister. As for me, Sam taught me that in an era of political correctness, perhaps someIntolerance and deserves ridicule, that is, perhaps we should not simply sit back and accept the status quo and instead we should speak and voice our displeasure, and that perhaps we take ourselves too seriously.

So, yes, I miss Sam, not only for how he raged, but more importantly, what he is trying to tell us.