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Submitted by tabbymom
George Carlin was a king among comedians. He wasn’t afraid to tell the truth, no matter how offensive it was. We miss him dearly every day and we can only hope that someday someone with a glimmer of the genius that George Carlin possessed comes along to entertain us once again.
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Even though I didn’t always agree with his beliefs or his politics, George Carlin was a definite Epic Win. Saying all the forbidden words he could think of while live at Carnegie Hall? That took guts. He was never afraid to say what was on his mind, or call attention to the ridiculous or glaringly obvious. And (usually) he did it with class and panache. All in all, the guy had balls. Big brass ones. Mr. Carlin, I salute you. You will be missed.
Amen. May Joe bless you!
He’s most definitely not looking down and smiling at us.
My guess is he is laughing AT us.
If there is an after-life, George has more then earned the right to just kick back on a cloud and enjoy the harp lessons.
Thank you very much Mr. Carlin for your insights. You are missed.
Sure he is, looking down from the roof.
So many modern comedians try to be Carlinesque and just end up being rude and vulgar. Carlin was, certainly, rude and vulgar, but his rudeness and vulgarity were not there for their own sakes, but to reinforce the point.
I miss him so much! And to think he died before he could go off on Sarah Palin!
His words would have been gold!
totally. it would have been like snl’s treatment of her times 1000
Hell yes. And yeah, I would have given almost anything to hear him rant about Palin.
Carlin and Bill Hicks were of the same ilk – sadly missed, not afraid to say it like it was.
He was my hero for nearly a decade. I still get a lump in my throat when I know that we won’t get new material from him anymore.
Bill Burr may be fast on his way to becoming the next comic who can come close to Carlin. Different style, but just as artistic with his language and creative with his rants.
I have his “Braindroppings” book on my computer desk as we type. When I saw this, I actually said out loud “epic, epic, epic win.” Brilliant. Echoing someone else – yes, he was crude and vulgar, but he was so brilliant with the English language that even swearing sounded elegant. Braindroppings and Napalm and Silly Putty are great coffee table books. Read a little, set em down, forget something, read something entirely different on the next page.
Now that I think about that, they’re also great bathroom books – and I don’t think Carlin would be offended at all with that statement. He probably came up with his best stuff on pot. I mean sitting on the pot.
Or doing pot while on the pot….
*wipes tear from eye*
Man, I miss the guy.
The world is a sadder place without him. I liked his anti-corporations/anti-goverment way of thought. RIP
Few people are lucky enough to become truly immortal, but Carlin is one of them– he didn’t die, he became the grouchy, invective-spewing Bizarro Santa Claus who brings you nothing for Christmas but perspective and common sense.
His work will be quoted and misattributed for the next century, but we who were lucky enough to see him will always know where it came from.
In short, George Carlin is not an epic win– he’s what epic wins want to be when they grow up.
Yes, maybe someday another will come along with the talent and genius of a Lenny Bruce, a George Carlin or Richard Pryor or Bill Hicks…in the unfortunate meantime we’re stuck with the likes of Dane Cook
George Carlin FTW!
my question…who the f*ck in their right minds would vote down this one?
Someone voted this down?!
yeah, 123 s**theads
*shakes head in disgust*
George Carlin was and still is amazing
Complete crap.
A prediction. During your entire lifetime you’ll not even come up with half as many original and funny observations about, well, anything than in any of his books.
And yet I still just made one that is more accurate than them all.
Its not even as clever as “No comment is a comment”
Try harder.
And sure..if you totally fail at logic.
i recently found “Napalm and Silly Putty,”in a used bookstore, and i can’t put it down! once i have two cents to rub together, im going to get his other two books.
also, its a little creepy that this post is up, a buddy of mine and i were just talking about him.
wherever he is, im sure george is laughing his ass off.
They’re both great books, but I would put Brain Droppings as his best one, so get that first. It includes the “Football vs. Baseball” and his “Stuff” sketches.
Football vs. Baseball is the best thing ever.
Who is this guy?
He’s the guy who said (forgive me if I fudge this) “Think about how dumb the average American is, then realize that at least half are dumber than that!”
Mr. Conductor.
XD Poor guy hated kids too.
Cue “words you can’t say on the air’ in three… two… one…
When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isnt a lot worth paying attention to.
“No comment” is a comment
Have you ever noticed that the lawyer always smiles more than the client?
Catholics – which I was, until I reached the age of reason.
More more more:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Carlin
This guy was the greatest.
I am still sad that he isn’t around …
The Palin stuff would have rocked.
Just read this:Carlin provided the voice of Fillmore, a character in the Disney/Pixar animated feature Cars, which opened in theaters on June 9, 2006. The character Fillmore, who is presented as an anti-establishment hippie, is a VW Microbus with a psychedelic paint job, whose front license plate reads “51237″ — Carlin’s birthday.
Sweet.
He also plays a priest(!) in Dogma and plays Rufus in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
XDDD Oh, I bet he loved the irony of playing a priest.
…and the hitcher in Jay & Silent Bob.
Do you follow the book…?
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Believe it or not, sally, it turns out that 51237 is the ZIP code for George, IA, too.
And he was Mr. Conductor on Shining Time Station!
I grew up watching him, first on STS, then when I hit high school I discovered his HBO specials.
my parents are very consertaive and christian, but yet they enjoyed carlin! i remeber being able to watch his stuff as a kid! :0 i love him!
I’ve had the honor of seeing him live three times. While I found some of his later comments about christianity offensive, he was an incredible observer of the human condition. As he once said “it’s my job as a comedian to tell you funny stuff, OR remind you of stuff that’s funny, but you forgot.”
We will not see someone like him again, especially considering the current crop of alleged comedians.
It is because of George that I developed a love for the English language. His insight into the little sayings we use (and use incorrectly) really made me examine my writing style. Besides all that, who could come up with something as funny as…
“Have you ever noticed that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn’t want to f### in the first place?”
We miss you George.
One of my friends in Vegas had the pleasure of running follow spot on two of his shows. She commented on how a lot of “stars” don’t want anything to do with the people who work the shows for them. Carlin wasn’t one of them, he took the time to say hello to everyone, and spent a few minutes talking theater with my friend. A year later when he came back he remembered her name and asked how she was doing. She commented on how soft-spoken he was “behind the scenes” and the person we saw out front was as much a character as any on a tv sitcom.
Anyone who was stupid enough to put a thumbs down either never saw George Carlin’s standup, or saw him in the Kevin Smith flims. Either way it’s a HUGE epic fail on their part because George was the greatest.
Carlin was a god damn genius, and we as a civilization are MUCH worse off without him. Anybody who couldn’t see past the language he used is probably one of the morons he rightfully complained about.
We need people like him to keep it straight. That’s all there is to it.
There isn’t much I can say that hasn’t already been said. The man is beyond legend. I will say this: The first time I saw Dane Cook, I thought he was funny. That was back before he was “famous”. He was just goofy and absurd, and made me laugh. Now he’s just obnoxious. Anyway, the difference between him and Carlin is, ten to twenty years from now, no one’s gonna remember Dane Cook. But they’ll know George Carlin. (I used Cook because someone referred to him in an earlier comment.)
Oh, and the “Stuff” bit will always be my favorite. Still makes me cackle.
“He’s down there, screaming up at us.”
I love GC so much! It’s a shame that he died before I was old enough to really appreciate his brand of humor.
I agree with The Crapture, no mention of George Carlin and his genius would be complete without Lenny Bruce (one of Carlin’s mentioned influences). I was happy I got to see Carlin perform live shortly before he died.
cool people are not allowed to die anymore
Carlin also taught us how to use “irony” correctly. “If a diabetic, on the way to the pharamacy to get insulin to save his life, gets hit by a truck and dies, that’s comedy. If the same diabetic, on his way to the store to get insulin to save his life, gets hit by a truck carrying sugar and dies, that is nothing more than an oddly poetic coincidence. If a diabetic, on his way to the pharmacy to get the insulin to save his life, gets hit by a truck carrying insulin and dies, that, my friend, is irony writ large.” (I paraphrase.)
Ah I really miss him.
Him and Pryor were some of the good old standup comedians. A lot of what they said was funny and seemed harsh was actually truth too.
We own two DVD’s of his shows. I loved him so much :’( .
Not just a priest but a CARDINAL, no less, in Dogma (absolutely brilliant casting). I am certain he went to another plane of existence that is very good — there is no way a loving Deity would give a man that kind of wit and talent, then condemn him for using it. And I agree, it is a shame he missed the latest political contests, he’d have had a field day. George was, is, and always will be an epid win in every sense.
My dad was watching his standup on DVD yesterday. He was doing his bit about death. I was in the bathroom, so I couldn’t see it, but I could still hear it.
So George was talking about that conversation that everyone has when someone dies:
“Hey, did you hear Joe Schmoe died?”
“Oh really, I just saw him yesterday.”
“Well it didn’t help, did it?”
So I walked out of the bathroom and went over to my dad and said, “Did you hear George Carlin died?….”
I loved George because he was a wordsmith. He was witty and crude, yet smart. You loved him and laughed even when you didn’t agree with what he was saying.
He’s probably still doing his standup and making God and all the angels laugh out loud.
and every week whitout fail uncle dave wins the lottery.
thats from saving the planet. i got a copy of most of his stuff and i got to say most of his points how wierd they might seem make a looot of sense if you think about it.
the man who knew too much…george carlin, RIP.
GC was the funniest comedian alive…until about 1991 or so when he made that suddenly plunge into pure bigotry. The sad and scary part is all the people that actually like that stuff.
R.I.P George