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Tag Archives: Sam Kinison

Metal Insider’s Top 5: Most Metal Comedians

Posted by on January 30, 2012

Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Earlier today, our buds at Metal Sucks discovered something fantastic. The same designer responsible for this amazing shirt has just released another two shirts in a similar vein. This time, they meld Louis C.K. with The Dead Kennedys and Sam […]

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Don Jamieson Discusses The Comedy Movement In Metal

Posted by on June 22, 2011

What gave it away that Don Jamieson was a metal head? Was it the fact that his debut stand-up album Live And Hilarious was released by Metal Blade Records? Was it that you’ve seen him perform with his acoustic death metal group Gunfire N Sodomy? Well, if you’re like most people, then you probably knew […]

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Slash Discusses The Legacy Of Sam Kinison On That Metal Show

Posted by on December 1, 2010

In this week’s upcoming episode of That Metal Show. Hosts Jim Florentine, Don Jamieson, and Eddie Trunk sit down with legendary rock ‘n roll guitarist Slash (well, legendary until he started shredding with Fergie) to discuss the DVD release of Back From Hell: A Tribute To Sam Kinison. As a fellow metalhead and comedian, Jamieson spoke […]

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Metal Insider To Present Sam Kinison Viewing Party

Posted by on November 9, 2010

As we mentioned a week or so ago, Sam Kinison was pretty awesome. Now the deceased comedian is the subject of a documentary airing this coming Saturday (1213) on Comedy Central, with the DVD arriving in stores four days later(16). Back From Hell: A Tribute To Sam Kinison features comedians that knew him and were […]

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Flashback Friday: Remember Sam Kinison?

Posted by on October 29, 2010

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkGxeE_7cW0 [/youtube]It seems like nowadays, there are plenty of comedians tied in with music. In particular, Brian Posehn, Big Jay Oakerson, Don Jamieson and Jim Florentine are pretty closely associated with the metal scene. That wasn’t the case 20 years ago, until Sam Kinison brought a metal sensibility to his comedy. In addition to his […]

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