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"I don't worry about terrorism.  I was married for two years."
  --Sam Kinison

Samuel Burl Kinisonwas born in Yakima, Washington on December 8, 1953.  He was the third of four sons of a Pentecostal preacher, who often moved the family from one parish to another.

When Kinison was eleven, his parents divorced and his mother quickly remarried, this time to another preacher.  She moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Kinison would stay with her for a short time.  But the brothers emulated their father, each one becoming a preacher as well.

Kinison started his studies at the Pinecrest Bible Training Center in New York.  By seventeen, he had his own pulpit, one he'd maintain for the next seven years.  He used a fire and brimstone approach to his sermons, which were often sprinkled with the same shouts and screams that would later define his stand-up routine.  He gave up the pulpit at 24, following his first divorce.

Rodney Dan