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Re: George Carlin: comedian, philosopher, thinker

beaware — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:21:04 -0000

Dad "wanna play the dozens, well the dozens is a game, and the way i fuck your mother is a god-damned shame". toledo window box, snot, the original rubber cement, Class Clown,etc... Burned me when the cyber world was inundated by all the repuglican poseurs writing under His name. i believe the repugs were trying to dupe old farts like me into thinking: 'well, hell if dirty old George Carlin can smoke all that sweet spleef and still be a self righteous asshole like ron raygun, well, why can't i?" The World's a poorer place now...

Re: George Carlin: comedian, philosopher, thinker

LoRayne Apo-Joynt — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:15:27 -0000

Thanks for the tip But does Stanhope possess Carlin's love of and respect for words?

That was one of the groovy things about him; he really understood their power, could make us laugh while slipping us the shiv without ever being vulgar simply because he was so much in love with words.

Re: George Carlin: comedian, philosopher, thinker

Ed Brayton — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:02:33 -0000

Closest thing to him... If you're looking for a comedian who treads the same ground at times, look up a guy named Doug Stanhope. He's inconsistent, mostly due to drinking too much and not caring enough sometimes, but at his best he's in Carlin's league when it comes to challenging our assumptions and making us look at ourselves in a new way. He's crude - much cruder than Carlin, even - and very, very cynical. But when he makes contact, he hits a home run.

Re: George Carlin: comedian, philosopher, thinker

LoRayne Apo-Joynt — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:44:15 -0000

Big effing shoes to fill I've lost some heroes over the last three years, the kind of folks who thought outside the box and walked the walk.

Hunter S. Thompson

Kurt Vonnegut

Arthur C. Clarke

And now to add George Carlin is damned painful.

Thanks for this, Ed; I'd forgotten how entwined Carlin was with my earliest adult years. I cut my teeth on his work. He set the bar for humor that has rarely ever been met since.

And now it's up to us to dangerous, funny and necessary, or nurture those who will take up that baton.