Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s hard to imagine Sam Kinison growing old and mellowing out. The infant Sam arrived in East Peoria nearly 62 years ago. That’s ...

EXCLUSIVE: David Permut’s long-in-the-works film about the late comic Sam Kinison has taken form. Larry Charles, who helmed the Sacha Baron Cohen comedies Borat, Bruno and The Dictator, has signed on ...

HBO has ordered up a biopic based on the life of standup Sam Kinison, who died in a tragic car accident in 1992. The film, titled Brother Sam: The Short, Spectacular Life of Sam Kinison, will be ...

Sam Kinison: Why Did We Laugh is a 1999-released biographical documentary. It follows the life and career of late comedian and actor Sam Kinison. He was known for his distinctive style of comedy, as ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. A feature film about the life of stand-up ...

Nobody saw comedy genius Sam Kinison’s death coming - at least not the way it happened. Most people assumed he’d succumb to substance abuse, but Kinison said he had that under control. Things actually ...

Tom Shadyac (Bruce Almighty) will direct a biopic about the life of standup comedian Sam Kinison for HBO Films. The film is based on the memoir Brother Sam: The Short, Spectacular Life of Sam Kinison, ...

HBO Films has decided to give the bigscreen treatment to the late Sam Kinison. The company’s developing a biopic of the outrageous comic with Tom Shadyac attached to direct and Rich Wilkes writing.

Ten minutes of audio from shock-comic Sam Kinison‘s final recorded performance, captured a few days before a drunk driver killed him in April 1992, is now available to stream. The comedian makes fun ...

Last November, Bill Kinison interrupted rehearsals for the one-man show he was workshopping to grab a quick flight to Illinois to retrieve his elderly in-laws. He had just kissed his wife Sherry ...

Sam Kinison almost made “Three Amigos” into the “Four Amigos” — well, kind of. Martin Short and Steve Martin first became friends while filming the 1986 movie, which also starred Chevy Chase. Filling ...