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A sad passing indeed. Here is another great one from him.
over and out
And as far as global warming, here is the man himself on that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljNDbKpusT0
That's a masterpiece, Frank (over and out). Pure poetry.
What is this about? Youtube is blocked on my daytime computer
I've never heard of this elderly gent, but what an astonishing parody on buzz words, faultlessly delivered and bang up to date too!
Whatever he died of, it certainly wouldn't have been chronic dementia.
Very glad to have seen that, and to wish him a belated farewell.
George Carlin?
I think this is more up trolls street :P
Phantom - Yes, Troll is a closet hippie. He was noting Carlin's work.
George Carlin was just a brilliant political and social comic, and was at the top of his game for about 40 years. I can't think of anyone else you could say that about, not in this country anyway.
I take it that he is a lot less known on the other side of the Atlantic. Guys, if you have access to any of the Carlin on stage performances, you may want to check them out. HBO will be running much Carlin
stateside at least for the next weeks.
Mahons, I was not impressed with the relatively small article that the NY Times had on Carlin today. I'm not saying that they should have had a six column front page above the fold story on it, but...I think that don't realize how very important Carlin was.
A big hero to the LEFTIES but not hated by righties as far as I can tell.
You're right there Phantom, Carlin is pretty much unknown over here- mores the pity.
I've been trolling through his stuff on YouTube and it's a terrific body of work. He seems to have got better (and bitter) the older he became.
You Yanks have the edge on us when it comes to this kind of serious, stand-up 'comedy' that has an underlying social truth, told directly.
Our own types tend to be lefty, facetious, sarcastic, and self-regarding.
It would be interesting to know why we're so thin on the ground in this arena.
Bernard, yes he did seem to improve with age.
And you're right, offhand I can't think of anybody his equal this side of the water.
I've been a fan of Carlin since I was a kid, yes he was a lefty, and did get bitter as he got older.
Do yourself a favor and Get and Listen to Class Clown and FM & AM those two are his clasic original masterpieces
Carlin came out of an Irish-American circle of which I am very familiar. But I never saw anyone remotely like him in the neighborhoods.
Today, at work, three of us who some would call right-of-center happened to meet up, and Carlin came up. Though he tended to be on the opposite side of any political things (apart from his open despising of all forms of political correctness) we agreed that we all just loved Carlin.
Most political comedians that I've seen are so earnest and pedantic that their humor suffers for it. Not Carlin.
He was always personally nice to people, something that gets you great credit in my books. A lot of performers and politicians would like to be thought of as nice. Few are, and many try unsuccessfully to fake it. Carlin didn't have to fake anything. He thought he was as good as anyone who ever lived, but no better. And that's fine with me.
Two months ago, he was interviewed from his home in Los Angeles by phone by WABC radio in New York. Only it was six am in LA, so he took the call by cell phone from his car. His wife was still sleeping in the house, and he didn't want to wake her. I loved that.
Cross posted here
Phantom #1 I didn't know you had your own blog. If it's ok with you I'll add you to my sidebar
#2 I was just looking for his routine "I used to be Irish Catholic Now I'm Ameerican. You know you grow"
He talks about the catholic school and church and confession a great routine.
I found IT
Grizzly
I would be honored, and will reciprocate. A lot of the few posts I make are very, very local and may not be of interest to all. But all are welcome.
Alan Frost
Will be flying up to Rochester tomorrow. But sorry, its just the "old in an out" meter-reading gig so I won't be catching you this time.
I just put it on The City Troll
Thanks Phantom
Got you right back. Thank you, and goodnight all.
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Nice header, Phantom! Quite enjoyed your blog.