Louder Than Hell

Sam Kinison colorfully expressed the middle class id (Robin Williams called him a "white Richard Pryor"). And his 1986 debut offers unadulterated misanthropy to an enthusiastic live audience. The off-color brand of humor, punctuated regularly by the comic’s signature vein-bursting howls of exasperation, has ripened with the years. While the former Pentecostal preacher directs most of his ire at his ex-wives, Louder Than Hell only gets crueler and more politically incorrect as it continues.