Sam Kinison: Breaking the Rules (1987)

Genre: Comedy

Directed by: Walter C. Miller

Cast: Sam Kinison

Running time: 50 minutes

In this HBO special of his, from 1987, Sam Kinison dove on stage without any effort to hold back. He ranted and raved, he screamed at the top of his lungs; basically, he was up to his usual antics. And, people loved it.

In Breaking the Rules, the preacher turned stand-up comic, who would die in a car crash five years later, talked about drugs, about women (his favorite subject), about sex and about religion. He did it with his razor-sharp tongue, never afraid to throw out an obscenity or two in the midst of a sentence.

Some of the material did not age so well and would likely come off as sexist, homophobic and such, but it was a product of its time.

Overall, this is a very funny stand-up comedy show, with some great raunchy material. A few lines miss the mark, but the majority of it was great.

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