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George Carlin dead at 71

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Some of my favorite Carlin quotes...

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
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And my personal favorite...

Religion convinced the world that there's an invisible man in the sky who watches everything you do. And there's 10 things he doesn't want you to do or else you'll go to a burning place with a lake of fire until the end of eternity. But he loves you! ...And he needs money! He's all powerful, but he can't handle money!
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I saw this on the news last night as was shocked. He wasn't old, he still had so much life left to live. One of my all-time favorite comedians and one of the first I ever paid attention to as he was also a comedian my mother listened to. His "Seven words you can never say on tv" was an immediate classic as was pretty much anything he did.


My mother was at my house this Sunday, saying good bye (she was vacationing) and she took a few old cassette tapes I have lying around. Her car is old and still has a tape deck. I have an old mixed tape of Carlin's work and it created a conversation about him and my childhood when she and I would listen to him together (teens really). He was on my mind all that day and then I watched the news. It made it more of a blow as I had been enjoying his work in my memories all day prior.

:cheers: to ya, George, rest well.

One of my personal favorites:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLoge6QzcGY"]YouTube - George Carlin - A place for my stuff[/ame]

My in-laws are a personification of this particular quote:
Have you noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff? God! And you say, "Get that shit offa there and let me put my stuff down!"
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I have actually heard that very statement from my mother-in-law, directed at my father-in law and I laughed so hard, when my brain made the Carlin skit connection, that I had to walk away and sit down."
 
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BUCKYLE;1190079; said:
Motherfucking shit.

YouTube - George Carlin - Dirty words
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I working as a law clerk for a judge, and we are in a murder trial that got moved out of the county to Seattle (King County) because of a change in venue motion. The clerk for the local judge walks up to me and hands me a volume of the federal reporter. It has a note to turn to page whatever. I do, thinking it has to do with the case, only to find the decision on Carlin's bit and indecency trial, with a verbatim transcript of the "Seven Dirty Words" bit.

So I am reading the thing while in the background the DA's expert is going on about some blood spatter testimony or something, when I start to laugh. Obviously I start trying hard not to laugh, which makes me laugh more, given the incongruous situation of a murder trial and me laughing during it makes the whole thing seem funnier. The jury starts to look at me, and I find that hysterical.

So the judge starts frowning at me, and I have to get up and leave the court room, literally trying to stifle my laughing with my hand over my mouth. The jury must have thought I was a sick bastard. Well, at the break the judge was not happy until I apologized and showed him the case. He told me that it was still inappropriate...then about five minutes later before court started again, the judge comes out of chambers laughing with the book in his hand and tells me, "OK, I get it now - but don't bring that shit in court again!"

RIP George.
 
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Steve19;1190246; said:
I have just looked at some of his YouTube skits. I had no idea that he had become so negative, even anti-American, in recent years. Wow. That kind of surprised me.
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He's always been pretty negative toward governmental interference. What's anti-American? I haven't watched his newer stuff lately, so I'm curious.
 
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Steve19;1190246; said:
I have just looked at some of his YouTube skits. I had no idea that he had become so negative, even anti-American, in recent years. Wow. That kind of surprised me.
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktIECyzf4YM]YouTube - Ron Paul: Who Owns You (Narrated By George Carlin)[/ame]
 
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Not to rail the thread off-topic, but recent Administration(s) and political players from all sides have given every person plenty of ammo to be negative and anti-American, but saying something that might be anti-American isn't necessarily un-American.

The fact that we can express what we feel without being dragged into the street and shot is precisely what makes America great.

Carlin had no peers when it came to observational humor. It's interesting watching that YouTube clip from '86 where he's going on-and-on about 'stuff' for five minutes, because the whole skit is very clever and can be followed by any American of any income or age or gender or ethnicity, so everybody is laughing, yet there's a criticism in his routine where he is (correctly) noting that we're all just petty and materialistic.

Carlin's eloquence, even when delivering material that was vulgar and offensive, is exactly what made him great. Everybody has heard some sound bite from one of his skits at some point in their lives and said, Hell yes!
 
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OCBuckWife;1190257; said:
He's always been pretty negative toward governmental interference. What's anti-American? I haven't watched his newer stuff lately, so I'm curious.
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Well, there's some stuff about 9/11 that was surprising. On a talk show, he said that people whose homes burnt in California got what they deserved. Said that Americans had sold out for cheeseburgers and that he had no hope that things could be fixed.

He addressed issues like consumer society (my stuff) and corporate power before. What caught me by surprise today was that there was no humor in these recent skits or talk show appearances. He was expressing raw anger.

I still think he is one of the greatest comedians ever. I was just very surprised to see that side of him. I suppose he was frustrated that people "didn't get it" after performing so long with a social message.
 
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Dryden;1190268; said:
Not to rail the thread off-topic, but recent Administration(s) and political players from all sides have given every person plenty of ammo to be negative and anti-American, but saying something that might be anti-American isn't necessarily un-American.

The fact that we can express what we feel without being dragged into the street and shot is precisely what makes America great.
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I agree entirely with what Dryden said. Take a look at Zimbabwe and thank God you weren't born there.
 
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Steve19;1190271; said:
Well, there's some stuff about 9/11 that was surprising. On a talk show, he said that people whose homes burnt in California got what they deserved. Said that Americans had sold out for cheeseburgers and that he had no hope that things could be fixed.

He addressed issues like consumer society (my stuff) and corporate power before. What caught me by surprise today was that there was no humor in these recent skits or talk show appearances. He was expressing raw anger.

I still think he is one of the greatest comedians ever. I was just very surprised to see that side of him. I suppose he was frustrated that people "didn't get it" after performing so long with a social message.
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Ok, thanks for further information. I guess I will have to go out and find those examples. I can understand your guess regarding frustration, he always was a passionate guy.
 
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