An appreciation of comedian George Carlin

with George Carlin
in In Memoriam
on Monday, June 23, 2008 * * * * *

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An appreciation of comedian George Carlin. On June 22, 2008, George Carlin was admitted to St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California complaining of chest pain. He died later that day at 5:55 p.m. PDT of heart failure at the age of 71.

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    1. fallon  05/18/2011 08:04 PM Report

      As a man who would never hear of a bad word said about George carlin i have to say when he says that if it were back in the cave man days and he was forced to do comedy for free he would,I say why not do it for free now?Sounds a little lame but i have to say it is only the second thing i've ever heard him say that i didn't agree with,the other was that he frowned upon people who walked around with earphones on all the time..Personally...I find the only way to avoid all the bullshit in the world and all the bullshit people around you talk everyday..I find that headphones block all that shit out!

      That said..I miss him so so much and have all his "stuff' and always tell people to watch him.GENIUS.

    2. rivaldo  06/19/2009 12:15 AM Report

      Anyone w/ something worth saying has a duty to repeat it, esp. if it's funny, and almost everything Carlin said was important and funny. From Plato to Jesus to MLK Jr., repeating was common practice. I'm familiar w/ all of Carlin's books and stand-up performances, and the charge that he was repetitive is total B.S. Hey Mark, you want us to believe you sat through 10 HBO specials in 1 week, all the while thinking it wasn't that good. Do you happen to be a masochist? Or maybe just an unhappy moron who is too sensitive and insecure to subject yourself to Carlin.

    3. Muckquomp  01/03/2009 08:31 AM Report

      As an entertainer, repeated lines is normal. As a comic genius-dynamo, great person, Pro-drug, anti-religion how about thought liberator, repeated lines was at times just plain embarrassingly earning a paycheck. He was bigger than that. Too much subtle associations out there and his talent for the "afterthoughts" for repeats.

    4. steve  07/28/2008 08:04 PM Report

      Really...that's it?

    5. Mark  06/30/2008 02:45 PM Report

      I used to be a big fan of Carlin and was taken back by the news of his passing. After watching around 10 of his HBO specials this past week, however, I don't really think he was much of a comedic genius at all. In fact, it seems to me that he just told the same jokes over, and over, and over again for 30 years.

    6. Brian C  06/26/2008 03:13 PM Report

      Really...that's it?

    7. WJ Vyrostek  06/26/2008 01:18 AM Report

      George Carlin was a comic genius and deserves an entire hour with Seinfeld, Letterman, Leno, Cosby, Maher, etc. commenting on his impact on all comedians and the art of stand-up comedy.

      Maybe when he (posthumously) receives the Mark Twain award, another show can bestow the accolades that he so richly deserves.

    8. MotherLodeBeth  06/25/2008 08:45 PM Report

      A few weeks ago the show devoted the whole hour to Sex in the City drivel and yet for a genius like George Carlin they gave him less time than it would take a person to do a bath room break during a commercial. Where were Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Maher, Don Rickles or Lewis Black and others who knew and respected the man? We needed to be reminded of what comic genius means.

    9. Zantonavitch  06/25/2008 09:44 AM Report

      George Carlin was a comic genius, and a great person too. Pro-drug and anti-religion. A comedic dynamo and hero!