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17. Sam Kinison

Reply to charlie and algernon (Original post)

Fri Mar 16, 2012, 02:40 PM

Mar 2012

is the only famous comic I ever saw live. One of my regrets in life is that I never saw George Carlin.

Kinison was absolutely hysterical - laughing til it hurts hysterical. He is much missed.

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What COMEDIANS have you seen live? [View all] charlie and algernon Mar 2012 OP

Jay Medicine Hat Ohio Joe Mar 2012 #1

Paula Poundstone and Jerry Seinfeld. RiffRandell Mar 2012 #2

Seinfeld was good tk2kewl Mar 2012 #3

We saw him in the early nineties. RiffRandell Mar 2012 #5

Mitch Hedberg. Iggo Mar 2012 #4

Oh I am so envious nadine_mn Mar 2012 #32

Seinfeld. Lewis Black. Dave Attel. Mitch Hedburg. Codeine Mar 2012 #6

Bill Cosby, way back in the early '70s The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2012 #7

Eddie Izzard Amaril Mar 2012 #8

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Make a wish, OG............. Amaril Mar 2012 #46

George Carlin, Rodney Dangerfield, Redd Foxx... bluesbassman Mar 2012 #9

Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Louie Anderson, George Carlin, Jerry Van Dyke, Gallagher. ohiosmith Mar 2012 #10

No one famous. geardaddy Mar 2012 #11

not many fishwax Mar 2012 #12

Wanda Sykes, Margaret Cho and Kathy Griffin. n/t racaulk Mar 2012 #13

Martin Mull and Paula Poundstone graywarrior Mar 2012 #14

Robin Williams. nolabear Mar 2012 #15

I almost passed out from laughter zbdent Mar 2012 #23

Robin Williams is the one current comedian I HAVE to see live before I die charlie and algernon Mar 2012 #27

Jeanne Garofalo and Cheech & Chong arcane1 Mar 2012 #16

Sam Kinison hifiguy Mar 2012 #17

That must have been awesome. n/t RiffRandell Mar 2012 #18

It was. hifiguy Mar 2012 #20

Dave Attell and Vic Henley Dirty Socialist Mar 2012 #19

George Carlin and Peter Bergman (Firesign Theater) MiddleFingerMom Mar 2012 #21

off the top of my head ... zbdent Mar 2012 #22

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Abbie Hoffmann and Ralph Nader. HopeHoops Mar 2012 #25

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Groucho Marx Ptah Mar 2012 #26

Really? Honest to God? Groucho? Do tell! nolabear Mar 2012 #42

It was during my only year at Northwestern University. Ptah Mar 2012 #44

Lewis Black, Hal Sparks, John Pinette, dana_b Mar 2012 #29

Steve Martin in the late 70s... Scout Mar 2012 #31

Lewis Black nadine_mn Mar 2012 #33

Steven Wright, Boston, Oct. 1985 LNM Mar 2012 #34

I saw Rodney Dangerfield once. Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2012 #35

Argh, I don't do that.... Umm... Bob Hope with my parents decades ago Motown_Johnny Mar 2012 #36

I've seen : Initech Mar 2012 #37

Jon Stewart WCGreen Mar 2012 #38

George Carlin (x2), Ellen DeGeneres, Sinbad Auggie Mar 2012 #39

George Carlin barbtries Mar 2012 #40

Eddie Izzard and Lewis Black twice... Eyerish Mar 2012 #41

Gallagher, George Carlin, Louise Anderson Generic Brad Mar 2012 #43

Red Skelton oftheforest Mar 2012 #45

To name two, Henny Youngman and Carrot Top... GReedDiamond Mar 2012 #47

None, unfortunately sakabatou Mar 2012 #48

Jackie Mason at the Fountainbleu on Miami Beach. RebelOne Mar 2012 #49

Funny you should ask. Brigid Mar 2012 #50

Pee Wee Herman Kingofalldems Mar 2012 #51

George Carlin.. 78 or 79. Great show , loved him then and now. rip George crunch60 Mar 2012 #52

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Steve Martin n/t trackfan Mar 2012 #54

George carlin in Reno, Lewis black in SF marlakay Mar 2012 #55

Lewis Black 2 times Bombero1956 Mar 2012 #56

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Carlin. And dozens at Comedy Clubs. alphafemale Mar 2012 #58

Dick Shawn, Spaulding Gray, Richard Lewis, Bill Maher, Conan O'Brian�. tainted_chimp Mar 2012 #59

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"The Sexy Liberal Show" Stephanie Miller, Hal Sparks and John Fugelsang. mucifer Mar 2012 #61

Woody Allen in 1968 in Baltimore Glorfindel Mar 2012 #62