George Carlin Dead

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I'm glad they announced he was getting the Kennedy Center award before he died, so he was still around to hear that. RIP, Hippy Dippy WEATHERMAN! :(
 
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etsisk said:
I'm glad they announced he was getting the Kennedy Center award before he died, so he was still around to hear that. RIP, Hippy Dippy Mailman! :(
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Hippy Dippy WEATHERMAN!

I think it's a raw deal that we have the empty heads saying "Carlin was famous for his risque comedy...The Seven Words..." I suppose he knew that was going to be the obit, but what he had a talent for was taking a step or two back from things we think are normal and pointing out how weird they are.

"An 80 year old woman is due to give birth. According to doctors, due to her advanced age she will give birth to an adult."

"In Texas, a shootout broke out between cowboy midgets riding shetland ponies. There were no fatalities but several bystanders were injured in their ankles and many electrical outlets were destroyed."

"Radar is showing a line of thunderstorms, but radar is also showing a inbound fleet of Russian ICBMs... so I wouldn't sweat the thundershowers."

Yeah. Nothing but profanity. :no:
 
Yes, I was very sad to hear this news - very funny guy who I will miss. I loved his "Airline Announcements" and "Free-Floating Hostility" bits.
 
I recall hearing an interview in which the interviewer (I think it was on NPR) asked him whether he could be funny without using shock words and profanity.

Carlin made a point of saying that, if a comedian required profanity to get his or her audience’s attention, then they simply weren’t funny. He then launched in to two or three minutes of some of the funniest stuff you could ever imagine, Sunday-school clean stuff.

Carlin was a comedic genius, and a pretty effective commentator on society to boot. I’ll surely miss him.
 
Get on the plane.
Forget you guys! I am getting IN the plane!

--Matt
 
I loved his take the 3 questions at the airport:

Has any unknown person asked you to take anything on board?
Well, what exactly is an 'unknown person'? Surely everyone is known to someone. In fact, just this morning, Kareem and Youssef Ali bin Gabba seemed to know each other quite well. They kept joking about which one of my suitcases was the heaviest.
 
Sad day indeed. I used to listen to the Carlin album my dad had (AM/FM I believe) on my weekend visits with him when I was young, then I'd go home and quote stuff to my mom...didn't really go over very well. :no:

Of course as I grew older, and his stuff got better, I really saw the genius of his work. He truly was a great observer, and pointed out how ridiculous some things were in a very amusing way. He was great at making you think about things that many just consider "normal" events, that you may not really think about otherwise - these all brought up in his "Have you ever noticed" routine.

I will certainly miss his work. RIP Mr Carlin.
 
Ever notice, other peoples stuff is Sh--, but your Sh--is stuff?

George.
 
When you realise how stupid the average American is, you'll know that 50% is stupider than that.
 
He ticked off a lot of people but he also favored his liberty. I listened him be interviewed by Sean Hannity a few times. Though claiming to be a libertarian, he was a traditional liberal in every sense of the word and pushed the limits of freedom which benefited all of us. Along with it, he made us laugh even when we wouldn't publicly admit it was funny.

Whatever one may think of his comedy routine, he was devotedly married to his first wife for thirty-six years. Good luck finding that period of time in most of Hollywood.
 
KennyFlys said:
He ticked off a lot of people but he also favored his liberty. I listened him be interviewed by Sean Hannity a few times. Though claiming to be a libertarian, he was a traditional liberal in every sense of the word and pushed the limits of freedom which benefited all of us. Along with it, he made us laugh even when we wouldn't publicly admit it was funny.

Whatever one may think of his comedy routine, he was devotedly married to his first wife for thirty-six years. Good luck finding that period of time in most of Hollywood.
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Bravo is re-running George Carlin on "Inside the Actor's Studio." It looks like they re-edited it for two hours.

He's right up front on things like his drug use, ie. he was high on coke ("6 grams a day" "the ritual is fun" "it's fun!") when he hosted a comedy awards show and he smoked marijuana even when he was in the suit and tie days.

It's also spooky when he glibly talks about having a heart attack about every 9 years. :hairraise: I tried to work out if the last was on schedule. I think it was off by a year or two years 'cause he said 1982.
 
More of George Carlin's famous "filth" (not!)

Football vs. Baseball

 
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