R.I.P. George Carlin
June 23, 2008 4 Comments
Question my liberal creds. This man is hilarious.
R.I.P. man. I’ll miss you.
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george carlin makes me want to burn the entire blogosphere down.
Warn me before you do that, ese.
I spent all yesterday evening watching his stuff on YouTube. He falls in that category of people who aren’t supposed to die; they just get too good for this world and then they morph into some new, intolerable form of being.
Or maybe that’s what death is, or what it can be. Either way, I’m sad.
word. last time i cared enough about a dead celebrity was marvin gaye. i think i was 15. i cried then, too. some of those people, those energies, you really connect with. anyway, i’m on a carlin kick all WEEK. he was so much more than a “comedian.” he was one of our modern day philosophers…con titanium cojones.
okay i’m going to buy some matches now.
He once did a series of “ethnic noises” that was side-splitting, very non-PC but so full of LOOOOOVE for everyone, that I wish yall could have seen it (way back on the Flip Wilson show circa 1972!)… The “Irish” noise was funny as hell (his own family) and I can’t describe it with mere letters… and there was a black noise (“ayyy!”), Puerto Rican noise (“uh-huh”), Jewish noise (“acchhh!”). These noises exist “so you know who’s on the subway with you, without even having to look up from your crossword puzzle.” I can’t imagine another comedian (besides Richard Pryor) who could deliver such a monologue and be more loved AFTERWARDS than before…
He was great.