George Carlin obituary

Originally posted by Badwater
My sentiments also. I had his albums in the early 70's, especially AM/FM but in the last 8 or 10 years he just stuck me as being cynical and not funny.

Originally posted by shavixmir
Have you followed national and international politics recently? What more can one do, but be cynical.

NBC is airing the first episode of Saturday Night Live which was hosted by Carlin, if anyone's interested.

Badwater, I agree with you except for Kinison. How could you stand listening to him? He was as bad as Bobcat Goldwaithe--their voices made me cringe.

I guess my favorites were Jonathan Winters and Red Skelton. And, oh yes, Don Rickles.

Originally posted by PinkFloyd
Badwater, I agree with you except for Kinison. How could you stand listening to him? He was as bad as Bobcat Goldwaithe--their voices made me cringe.

Originally posted by Badwater
I never though necrophilia could be funny until I saw him at Wolfgang's in SF.

I believe you can joke about anything. It all depends on how you
construct the joke. What the exaggeration is. What the exaggeration is.

My favourite Carlin performance. I first heard part of this in the Zeitgeist
movie, and I still laugh like crazy at some of this stuff:

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Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an
invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten
things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten
things he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and
torture and anguish where he will send you to live and suffer and burn
and choke and scream and cry forever and ever until the end of time!







But he loves you.

In any decently run universe this guy would have been out on
his all powerful @ss a long time ago

Originally posted by Badwater
Robin Williams is still top notch when it comes to his standup act. He's still pretty quick-witted and he's not cynical. Carilin broke ground but didn't age as gracefully as Robin Williams.

I can observe the cynical stuff; I don't need the no-longer-extant Mr. Carlin or anyone else to do that for me. Show me some wit, some perspective.

My current favorite comic still alive is Eddie Izzard. My favorite comic of all time is Sam Kinison.

Originally posted by Badwater
I kind of cringe that Sam would be compared to Bobcat, it's rather like saying Carrotop and Gallagher are the same because they used props. I thought Sam Kinison was far more clever about making anything funny. I never though necrophilia could be funny until I saw him at Wolfgang's in SF. Perhaps you never saw either one live? (I'm not assuming you haven't, just posing the question).

Originally posted by PinkFloyd
Nope--I never saw Sam live. As I said--having to listen to that shriek would have been more than my ears could take 😉

Originally posted by Badwater
I understand. Since I've been married twice the screaming for me was only a reflection of the cries of my tortured, imprisoned soul. 😀

Originally posted by shavixmir
Bill Hicks would be my favourite. Followed by Lewis Black and Billy Connolly.

Robin Williams' stand-up is brilliant, in stark contrast to the majority of film roles he's accepted.