Monday, June 23, 2008

George Carlin


George was one of the truly great ones. My brother bought his albums and I "borrowed" them and it was incredible and exhilarating -- he was innovative, mindblowing, and he thought about stuff (one of my favorite comedians, Eddie Izzard, owes something to Carlin). The hippy, dippy weather man, the seven words... it was all so fresh and brilliant in its time. Carlin died yesterday, after years of heart problems. He was 71.



More: 1967 newscast (audio), commercials (1965), wonderful wino (1966), the hippy dippy weatherman (1966) (and a reprise), on Carson (1972), the seven words, words (1974) - (1976), baseball and football, the sanctity of life, on language, the ten commandments, common experiences, religion is bullshit, on death, and Carlin on Olbermann last year.

UPDATE: from BoingBoing...
Here is a verbatim transcript of "Filthy Words," the George Carlin monologue at issue in the historic 1978 Supreme Court case of FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, prepared by the Federal Communications Commission.

3 comments:

Dianne said...

George will definitely be missed!

I love Eddie Izzard!

Keera said...

Damn. I like his comedy and societal commentary even if I don't care for his atheism. I sure would love to know what he thinks about it now. :-) He had a good run.

June said...

I loved him...thank goodness we have his work left!