Journalist/Comedian Harmon Leon dives into comedy cult classics, comedic influences, and all things comedy history.
Needless to say, we are currently living through a crisis. But we know that laughter is the best medicine - and comedy will help us prevail.
It’s helped us in the past - in dealing with tragic events.
This episode, we look at comedy right directly after 9/11. They said irony was dead - but comedy help us pull through tragedy - especially with The Onion, SNL, Letterman, The Daily Show, and Gilbert Gottfried's legendary joke at the Friar's Club Roast.
We dive into the Sam Kinison origin story - and his role as a member of the Texas Outlaw Comics in Houston during the mid-1980s.
Kinison was a former preacher who turned to stand up comedy. During his Houston years, Kinison found his comedy voice - working alongside another future comedy legend: Bill Hicks.
The Texas Outlaw Comics were a group of comedians based in Houston that formed at the Comedy Workshop in the mid-1980s. This collective of
like-minded comedians became an incubator of a unique style of comedy - that brought the world such legends as Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison.
In Part One, we'll dive into the Bill Hicks origin story; from clean-cut suburban kid - to full-blown Texas comedy outlaw.
