Comic genius, professional malcontent, critic of culture, and language artisan- George Carlin died yesterday at the age of 71.
George Carlin was, hands-down, my favorite comedian. I remember at the very young age of 8 having bought Class Clown, one of Carlin's early comedy albums. I would listen to it incessantly in my room. Having deaf parents was a plus here, because this album contained the infamous Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television bit which thrust the issue of censorship all the way to the Supreme Court. Those of you familiar with his comedy already understand the joy of language he brought to his performances. If you aren't familiar with his material (you Phillistine!) you should definitely give it a chance. It just may make you want to burn your Carrottop DVD collection!
Ironically, here is George waxing poetic on death:
He'll be missed.
No longer an intern (The Salt Lake Tribune, 7/6/13)
10 years ago
2 Comments:
He was definitely very creative .... and an innovator to be sure.
In the clip ..... I noticed that he seemed to 'loose' the audience with his hard core atheism routine .... I wonder if things worked out as he expected ..... if not ...... he's going to have to change his act the next time around ;)
George was an equal opportunity critic. He pointed out the bullshit which pervades all around us. Railing against the absurdities in religion was merely a small portion of his holding the mirror up to our culture and saying....WTF?
As to the audience that seemed to receive him cooly, you know what they say, "joke em if they can't take a....."
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