This is a great performance. Through yelling and energetic story-telling, he talks about marriage, drugs, being arrested (thanks to his ex-wife), pleasing women, religion, and much, much more.
Acting
Kinison's physicality—sweating, stalking, exploding.
Direction
Walter C. Miller knows when to hold on the chaos.
Writing
Structured rants that build to nuclear detonations.
Director
Walter C. Miller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Kinison's only HBO special during his lifetime; he'd die five years later at 38.
The screaming preacher persona invented 'alternative comedy' aggression years before it had a name—Bill Burr and others owe him everything.
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