Happy Hanukkah!

Liam Neeson is a funny guy. Funny, right?

Who'd a thunk it?!? ;-) (In other news, the planets must be aligned in the house of comedy this weekend!)

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.

Leave General Petraeus Alone!

(yet another Chris Crocker impersonator!)

Best Quotes

George Carlin turned 70 today, prompting Jimzarro to post 101 Greatest Quotes From George Carlin (use the link or find them all after the jump).

Pop Culture Looks at Pop Culture Looking at Pop Culture

This is absolutely brilliant, though there's no telling how long it will get to stay up on YouTube (that didn't last very long at all!), because of the issues referenced in the video (yeah, irony).

Seriously, I don't know if I'm going to keep sharing YouTube videos after this, because they keep disappearing because of various legal reasons. YouTube has taken a precipitous dive downhill since Google aquired it. Well, that's it. No more YouTube. It was fun while it lasted!

Maybe I'm just punchy...

... but I laughed awfully hard at these people who were laughing at a dude who was laughing.