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A former revivalist preacher, Kinison gained notoriety as a comedian by screaming insults at fans during live performances and adopting the rock and roll lifestyle that had taken over pop culture in the late '80s: Glam Metal. Kinison's pattern of living fast and living hard would eventually catch up to him on the evening of April 10, , when his Trans-Am collided with a pickup truck, injuring his newly married wife, Malika , and fatally injuring him via The New York Times.

Born in December of , Kinison was the son of a Pentecostal preacher. Raised in East Peoria, Illinois, with his two brothers, Kinison adopted his father's trade, preaching in open-air tents in backwater towns from the age of Delivering fire-and-brimstone sermons to his temporary congregations, Kinison would unknowingly hone his notorious screaming style later used to such effect in his comedy routines.

According to Biography , Kinison was big fan of Richard Pryor's comedy, and coincidentally, Pryor hailed from Peoria, Illinois just across the Illinois River from where Kinison grew up. After six years of pacing stages under drafty tents via Entertainment Weekly , Kinison would divorce his wife of five years and make the drastic change of taking up comedy.

Over the next five years, Kinison shrieked through the big and small comedy clubs of LA , picking up a very costly cocaine habit along the way, as Entertainment Weekly reported. Fate smiled kindly on Kinison in August of , when years of hard work paid off in the form of a once-in-a-lifetime spot on Rodney Dangerfield's "Young Comedians" TV special.

The fuse was lit, ignition was set, there was nowhere for Kinison to go but the stratosphere. The next seven years for Kinison would propel him to the heights of comedy mega-stardom, but also drag him into the depths of drug abuse and alcoholism.