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George Carlin is dead :(

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One of the true critical thinkers and exposer of the corrupt things in politics has died today. It is a shame. Let us have a moment of memory of this great thinker and wonderful comedian.





This man will be missed. A man who always challenged the status quo. A man well, who always told it like it is. You were an inspiration to many people george:)

R.I.P.
 
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The Freemasons killed him to keep him quiet during the election campaign.
 
It saddens me to hear this forlorn news. I enjoyed Carlin's sense of humor. He was a person who was never afraid to say what he truly wanted to say, no matter how it might have been received. I will miss him as I am sure countless others will.
 
ronpaulisright said:
...A man who always challenged the status quo.
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Correction: a man who made a comfortable living by mocking and satirizing the status quo. He was also quite a negative guy, and I'm not aware that he offered many rational solutions to the myriad problems he riffed on. A funny, angry guy and a so-so critic. No, he wasn't always right, but he spoke his mind publicly and that's appreciated.
 
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Joe Pesci works in mysterious ways. But seriously George, you will be missed.:(

This has to prove that a god doesn't exist. First Russert, and now Carlin? Why couldn't it have been O'Reilly and Mencia?

And for old time's sake:
****
piss
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mother****er
and tits.

It doesn't really matter to me if this gets censored or not.
 
Gravy said:
Correction: a man who made a comfortable living by mocking and satirizing the status quo. He was also quite a negative guy, and I'm not aware that he offered many rational solutions to the myriad problems he riffed on. A funny, angry guy and a so-so critic. No, he wasn't always right, but he spoke his mind publicly and that's appreciated.
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The Carlin of the last 20 years was much different than the Carlin from the seventies. I much prefer the one from the seventies.

Class Clown is such an amazing album. It transcends standup comedy.

Oh, and ****.
 
Back when I had my ponytail, I was mistaken for him several times. I wish it had been because of his standup act, but it was only during the time he had his short-lived TV series. Oh, well.

Contra Gravy, critics don't have to "offer rational solutions" to the problems they see. The act of making people aware of the problems -- many people -- can lead to the development of rational solutions. He made me think, he made others think. That's more than many people do. I will miss him.
 
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Contra Gravy, critics don't have to "offer rational solutions" to the problems they see. The act of making people aware of the problems -- many people -- can lead to the development of rational solutions. He made me think, he made others think. That's more than many people do. I will miss him.
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I was responding to the OP's claim that Carlin was a great thinker and a challenger to the status quo. It's not easy to be funny about it, but it is easy to point out humanity's serious flaws. Carlin was a pessimist. We're crazy, we suck, we die. Well, we know that already. Carlin made it funny, but didn't think much could be done to change it.
 
Forum rules forbid my proper expression of unhappiness at this news. (In the manner of the man himself)

Goodbye, George.

You're still needed.
 
Sad indeed. My sig here has honored his militant athiesm for some time. He was a master at skewering the sacred cows of American capitalism and the hypocrisy of the Xian right. I got to see his act in person a few times and I agree, he was extremely bitter and cynical and one left the auditorium feeling a bit sorry for him but I was glad he was out there pissing people off.

I think all the "Shock Jocks" of recent years owe him a tremendous amount for blazing the trail - not that his purpose was truly to shock his audience, but he was certainly accused of using obscenity solely for its shock value. But it had a thoughtful undercurrent, unlike many of his predecessors.
 
Sad he's gone.

And balls to RPIR for trying to flog the federal reserve woo with an edited clip.
 
I distinctly heard, "Snap, crackle, **** you"

George Carlin said things to make people think. I didn't always agree but it did make me think. Personally, I preferred watching the openly atheistic Carlin playing a Cardinal in Dogma introducing The Buddy Christ
Cardinal Glick: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Now we all know how the majority and the media in this country view the Catholic church. They think of us as a passe, archaic institution. People find the Bible obtuse... even hokey. Now in an effort to disprove all that the church has appointed this year as a time of renewal... both of faith and of style. For example, the crucifix. While it has been a time honored symbol of our faith, Holy Mother Church has decided to retire this highly recognizable, yet wholly depressing image of our Lord crucified. Christ didn't come to Earth to give us the willies... He came to help us out. He was a booster. And it is with that take on our Lord in mind that we've come up with a new, more inspiring sigil. So it is with great pleasure that I present you with the first of many revamps the "Catholicism WOW. " campaign will unveil over the next year. I give you... The Buddy Christ. Now that's not the sanctioned term we're using for the symbol, just something we've been kicking around the office, but look at it. Doesn't it... pop? Buddy Christ...
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Boo
 
Another marker of the passage of time.... sigh.

He was funny in his day. He had lost a little of his relevance but still, I'm sorry to hear it.
 
Gravy said:
Correction: a man who made a comfortable living by mocking and satirizing the status quo. He was also quite a negative guy, and I'm not aware that he offered many rational solutions to the myriad problems he riffed on. A funny, angry guy and a so-so critic. No, he wasn't always right, but he spoke his mind publicly and that's appreciated.
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My feelings exactly, although he wasn't so comfortable in the very early days as a struggling comic. "The Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" opened a lot of doors to "dirty" comics who previously had been consigned to smokey nightclubs and plain-cover albums in the backs of record stores. He had the ability to stand back and take a different look at modern life.

I think his skit(s) about growing up Catholic really had an impact on my early religious skepticism, like when he said (paraphrased)

"Special dispensation....Eating meat on Friday is strictly forbidden, except for St. Mary's cause they finished first in the paper drive!"

but like Boooeee, I found that his stuff in later years tended to ramble incoherently. I couldn't even finish "Brain Droppings" because it was not worth finding the occasional nugget among all the patties.

But he was a breakthrough comic who will be greatly missed.

"The forecast for tonight is dark, with continued dark until morning when there will be scattered light."
 
I'm going to be the spoilsport here.

George Carlin was the original master of raging against the machine while using the machine to get rich.

He railed against big evil corporations.

But big evil corporations produced his recordings. Big evil corporations marketed his recordings. Big evil productions produced his TV specials. Big evil corporations owned the theaters where he performed.

He got rich by selling you his product, with the able assistance of big evil corporations that he tried to tell you were ripping you off.

If it weren't for big evil corporations that George Carlin pretended to hate, nobody would ever had heard of George Carlin.

And now he's getting a Mark Twain Prize. How ironic; if there was anyone who would have spotted the colossal hypocrisy, it would have been Mark Twain.

Yeah, he could be funny. His comparison of baseball and football was wonderful. But don't think for a minute that he really hated the big evil corporations that made him rich. That was just a stage persona.

You know what's funny? The Washington Post has a "comments" section at the end of its story about Carlin, and dozens of the comments are along the lines of, "We know you're in Heaven now, George" "He's getting his Mark Twain Prize from Mark Twain himself," "Have fun making God laugh, George" blah blah blah. Yeesh.
 
boooeee said:
The Carlin of the last 20 years was much different than the Carlin from the seventies. I much prefer the one from the seventies.

Class Clown is such an amazing album. It transcends standup comedy.

Oh, and ****.
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Yep. His humor was nasty in the past few years, but he could still make me laugh.

At 71, he lived his three score and ten despite damned near killing himself with his cocaine habit. I've still got a bunch of his albums and books, so if I need a Carlin laugh I can call a few up.

The Hippy Dippy Weather Man has made his last forecast.

DR
 
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