Sam Kinison
publication date: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 (part of Fall 2016)
category: 
Comedy
clue: This loud-mouthed, beret-loving former preacher had a strange career in comedy and an even stranger death by drunk driver in 1992.
explanation: Kinison, who frequently shouted and wore a beret during public appearances, died only six days after his wedding. According to witnesses at the crash site, he engaged in a conversation with an unseen figure in which he resisted and finally accepted his fate. more…
difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Justin Woods, Matthew Preston, Joanna Woods, and Jesse King
Similar Goos
Alfred E. Neuman
Boys and girls, I'm a new man. Go »
Bill Clinton
Is it 1996 or 2016? This do-nothing draft dodger and philander-in-chief is on the brink of returning to his 1990s home and becoming the nation's first First Gentleman. Go »
Kyle MacLachlan
In the 1980s, you might have seen him wearing a certain shade of velvet to cross sand dunes. In the 1990s, he opened new career doors by visiting a two-mountain town. In the 2000s, he enjoyed having urban sex with needy spouses. In the 2010s, he became a Marvel supervillain and watched his daughter turn inside-out. Go »
Walter Mercado
This blonde Puerto Rican has used twelve constellations to tell the future for generations of viewers to Spanish-language television in America. Go »
Jaimie Alexander
She has appeared alongside musclemen like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chris Hemsworth, but her best-known role requires her to alter her own body through the application of elaborate fake tattoos. Go »
