George Carlin passes at 71[:(]

[TulsaFan-inTexas]

One of THE FUNNIEST comedians ever. Loved that Football and Baseball analogy too. RIP George.

[Breadburner]

Not safe for work or kids.....**Profanity Alert**....This is GC dealing with a heckler...Audio only....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it9kpZHXhxI

[waterboy]

He was all the rage when I was in college. Him and Cheech/Chong. But I hadn't noticed him much till his hippy dippy weatherman routine. Tonite...mostly dark. And of course the 7 words.

[santalar]

It is great that George Carlin used stand up comedy to say the things that others should say but cannot. Others would be persecuted for the things he said.

George Carlin used comedy to highlight the flaws in our society. Mark Twain wrote short stories that identified flaws in society. So it is great that Carlin won a Mark Twain award.

I never met him but I remember first seeing him on Saturday Night Live in the 1970s. I was instantly hooked. I will miss him.

[dbacks fan]

Baseball v Football


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YphEUa5LPjM&feature=related

Airport Security

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBxzvSbGJ2w&feature=related

[dbacks fan]

quote:Originally posted by tim huntzinger

Ease up, people.  Just giving him props, you eeeeedeeeooot.  In fact, I think Carlin is still with us.  Right after my colon cleanser I saw his face for a moment before I flushed!  Carlin taught us that there are no sacred cows, nothing off-limits.  Except the sensibilities of narrow-minded poop-heads that git their panties all in a wad.  Say, is that him beyond the grave I hear? Nahhhhh, I just ripped a big smelly one!

You sound an awful lot like the people you are describing. Are you afraid of free thinkers? People who voice their opinions and feelings? There are those of us that refuse to be sheep, blindly following the winds as they blow. I don't care if you are left, right, or in the middle. You are who you are. But to sit there, and tell us that we are, as you put it, eeeeeeedeeeeeooooots, because we listen to something that you consider drivel, and pablum, for those that are unknowing and uninformed. There are those of us who think for ourselves, and form our own opinions based on the information that we recieve. Whatever that you believe and follow is your choice in life, as whatever anybody else wants to listen to, believe in, and follow for themselves. You may disagree with everything that I say, and that is your right, and I may disagree with what you say, and that is my right. But to preach to us as if we were sheep in your flock is wrong.

If you don't like George Carlin's humor, and his commentary, that's fine. I appreciate and respect that. But don't sit there and hide behind a screen name and tell everybody else that they are wrong for what they believe in, and what they feel, and find humorous and entertaining. If thats the way that you feel that life should be, who are you really?

[tim huntzinger]

quote:Originally posted by dbacks fan

quote:Originally posted by tim huntzinger

Ease up, people.  Just giving him props, you eeeeedeeeooot.  In fact, I think Carlin is still with us.  Right after my colon cleanser I saw his face for a moment before I flushed!  Carlin taught us that there are no sacred cows, nothing off-limits.  Except the sensibilities of narrow-minded poop-heads that git their panties all in a wad.  Say, is that him beyond the grave I hear? Nahhhhh, I just ripped a big smelly one!

You sound an awful lot like the people you are describing. Are you afraid of free thinkers? People who voice their opinions and feelings? There are those of us that refuse to be sheep, blindly following the winds as they blow. I don't care if you are left, right, or in the middle. You are who you are. But to sit there, and tell us that we are, as you put it, eeeeeeedeeeeeooooots, because we listen to something that you consider drivel, and pablum, for those that are unknowing and uninformed. There are those of us who think for ourselves, and form our own opinions based on the information that we recieve. Whatever that you believe and follow is your choice in life, as whatever anybody else wants to listen to, believe in, and follow for themselves. You may disagree with everything that I say, and that is your right, and I may disagree with what you say, and that is my right. But to preach to us as if we were sheep in your flock is wrong.

If you don't like George Carlin's humor, and his commentary, that's fine. I appreciate and respect that. But don't sit there and hide behind a screen name and tell everybody else that they are wrong for what they believe in, and what they feel, and find humorous and entertaining. If thats the way that you feel that life should be, who are you really?

Holy $#!^ take a chill pill! EVERYTHING is kewl as long as their is no post-mortem roast.  OHHHHH NOOOOOO once someone has died we can not give them a ration of crap.  Not an ounce. Lighten up . . . ohhhhhhh you are just bitter because you are a DIAMONDBACKS fan.

Saw a clip of Carlin on Stewart's show last night.  Carlin noted DICK Cheney's and Colin (COLON) Powell's names and said that Gulf War I was an example of someone getting #U(%#D in the @$$.  And he gave that hilarious wide-eyed look and lopsided grin! Man! How did he do it??!!  Those kind of witticisms! Give me a thousand years and I could never ever have made that observation!!

Screen name? Okay.  Why would would anyone make up an effed-up stupid name like the one I am using? Only sadistic parents could do this to a person.  Next thing you are going to do is tell me your name is not Dbacks Fan.  Riiiiight. I know better.

[FOTD]

quote:Originally posted by Breadburner

Not safe for work or kids.....**Profanity Alert**....This is GC dealing with a heckler...Audio only....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it9kpZHXhxI

BB! I bet you pulled this out of your filed emails sent from some of your fans![:O]

Op-Ed Contributor
Dying Is Hard. Comedy Is Harder.


By JERRY SEINFELD


Published: June 24, 2008
THE honest truth is, for a comedian, even death is just a premise to make jokes about. I know this because I was on the phone with George Carlin nine days ago and we were making some death jokes. We were talking about Tim Russert and Bo Diddley and George said: "I feel safe for a while. There will probably be a break before they come after the next one. I always like to fly on an airline right after they've had a crash. It improves your odds."

I called him to compliment him on his most recent special on HBO. Seventy years old and he cranks out another hour of great new stuff. He was in a hotel room in Las Vegas getting ready for his show. He was a monster.

You could certainly say that George downright invented modern American stand-up comedy in many ways. Every comedian does a little George. I couldn't even count the number of times I've been standing around with some comedians and someone talks about some idea for a joke and another comedian would say, "Carlin does it." I've heard it my whole career: "Carlin does it," "Carlin already did it," "Carlin did it eight years ago."

And he didn't just "do" it. He worked over an idea like a diamond cutter with facets and angles and refractions of light. He made you sorry you ever thought you wanted to be a comedian. He was like a train hobo with a chicken bone. When he was done there was nothing left for anybody.

But his brilliance fathered dozens of great comedians. I personally never cared about "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television," or "FM & AM." To me, everything he did just had this gleaming wonderful precision and originality.

I became obsessed with him in the '60s. As a kid it seemed like the whole world was funny because of George Carlin. His performing voice, even laced with profanity, always sounded as if he were trying to amuse a child. It was like the naughtiest, most fun grown-up you ever met was reading you a bedtime story.

I know George didn't believe in heaven or hell. Like death, they were just more comedy premises. And it just makes me even sadder to think that when I reach my own end, whatever tumbling cataclysmic vortex of existence I'm spinning through, in that moment I will still have to think, "Carlin already did it."

Jerry Seinfeld is a writer and a comedian.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/opinion/24seinfeld.html?th&emc=th

[rwarn17588]

quote:Originally posted by tim huntzinger


Saw a clip of Carlin on Stewart's show last night.  Carlin noted DICK Cheney's and Colin (COLON) Powell's names and said that Gulf War I was an example of someone getting #U(%#D in the @$$.  And he gave that hilarious wide-eyed look and lopsided grin! Man! How did he do it??!!  Those kind of witticisms! Give me a thousand years and I could never ever have made that observation!!

The key difference being that Carlin's delivery and timing of that observation would have actually been funny.

So, please take note.