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Sad news on this fine Monday.
Life Is Worth Losing
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He was great.
I think this was my first introduction to Carlin…
How to Handle a Heckler:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=it9kpZHXhxI
The last time I saw Carlin live, he looked like this:
He and Pryor were mainstays of the college circuit back in my days at school. I think tickets to his show were something like five bucks, and he was just incredible as you could imagine.
His method of understanding the world and making fun of the words and perceptions that we all use to navigate it ,was just so incredibly unique. I don’t think anyone has ever come close to his particular type of humor, and as such, he will be sorely missed. I’m just sorry I didn’t get off my ass to see his appearance last year at a nearby theater.
So long George.
I took my grandfather to see him back in 92. It was a great time and a memory i’ll have forever. Good luck on the other side man!
such a loss. i’ll be missing him.
I really always wanted to go check out one of his shows. This is just a damn shame.
first russert, now carlin. sad times.
RIP
Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker and Tits.
Shitty way to start the week.
Man, what a great mind.
Quite the resume:
23 comedy albums
14 HBO specials
He won four Grammy Awards, each for best spoken comedy album.
3 books
A couple of TV shows
Appeared in several movies (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure!)
Hosted the very first “Saturday Night Live”.
And was involved in a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling for his “Seven Dirty Words” bit on indecency.
RIP George
See you on the other side
Jim McKay, Tim Russert, George Carlin all over a 15-day period.
Ugh.
Sad. I’m glad I went to see him last fall when he came through town. Humor never to be rivaled.
RIP
RIP. George Carlin was a brilliant man. The entire world could take a lesson from the way this man lived. He will be missed.
He’s easily my favorite comedian. I love his outlook on things and despite him being a comedian, I really think he had amazing insights on how backward people are how some should live. One of my favorite bits was how he firmly believes you can make a joke out of ANYTHING and I firmly agree…the entire world is funny.
Sadly, I just looked up and I have a clipping of one of his quotes at my work that I tend to read every day:
“Some people see things are and ask, “Why?” Some people dream of things that never wera and ask, “Why Not?” And some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.”
PRICELESS.
Stevo
Lots of great Carlin quotes for you to mull over:
When cheese gets it’s picture taken, what does it say?
When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn’t it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
When someone is impatient and says, “I haven’t got all day,” I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It’s just stale bread to begin with.
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
Women like silent men, they think they’re listening.
“I am” is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that “I do” is the longest sentence?
Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.
If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?
I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
Religion convinced the world that there’s an invisible man in the sky who watches everything you do. And there’s 10 things he doesn’t want you to do or else you’ll go to a burning place with a lake of fire until the end of eternity. But he loves you! …And he needs money! He’s all powerful, but he can’t handle money!
This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight’s last gleaming. Amen and Awomen.
EDIT:
I found this one entirely fitting:
I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.
If you haven’t already, buy Carlin’s two books. They’re FILLED with awesome quotes like the ones above. Many are lifted straight from his shows but they’re awesome.
Stevo
I don’t know why, but that one had me in stitches.
I could keep posting these all day…
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
Most stand up I couldn’t care less about. But there is some that is well done and appreciate. Carlin, however, is in neither of those categories. He’s just fucking awesome
Carlin was the first REAL comedian my dad got me into other than Richy P
george was the fuckin bomb
RIP