NightWoundsTime Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Just heard this on the radio. George Carlin has died of heart failure, at 71. Always loved his work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archosman Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Fox just posted it on their website... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightWoundsTime Posted June 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Those are the ones that will infect your soul, curve your spine and keep the country from winning the war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) Comedian George Carlin, who's known for his cerebral material, is being tapped for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. It will be awarded November 10th at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Carlin will become the 11th recipient of the award. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and titsAs expletives, my sentiments exactly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFF Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Oh - this is bad news! I loved his work. May he R.I.P. Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riceboy Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 I saw him about 10 years ago in Vegas. May he R.I.P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Holy shit, I just found out about this. I've been a fan of Carlin since I was about 13, and heard this rant from What Am I Doing in New Jersey? (Parental discretion advised) I really haven't seen this many people in one place since they took the group photographs of all the criminals and law-breakers in the Ronald Reagan administration. [laughter] Yeah! Yeah! 225 of 'em so far! 225 different people in the Ronald Reagan administration have either quit, been fired, been arrested, indicted, or convicted of either breaking the law or violating the Ethics Code! 225 of 'em! And Edwin Meese alone... [laughter] Edwin Meese alone has been investigated by three separate Special Prosecutors and there's a fourth one waiting for him in Washington right now. Three separate Special Prosecutors have had to look into the activities of the Attorney General, and the Attorney General is the nation's leading law enforcement officer! [laughter] See that's what you've got to remember, this is the Ronald Reagan administration we're talking about. These are the Law and Order people! These are the people who are against street crime! They want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals! [laughter, cheers] Yeah! They're against street crime, provided that street isn't Wall Street. [laughter] And the Supreme Court decided about a year ago that it's all right to put people in jail now if we just think they're going to commit a crime. It's called preventive detention. All you've got to do now is just think they're going to commit a crime. Well if we'd known this seven or eight years ago we could have put a bunch of these Republican motherfuckers directly into prison [laughter, cheers] Yeah! put 'em in the joint where they belong and we could have saved the expense of putting these pin-headed assholes on trial. [laughter] Another thing you gotta remember is these are the people elected with the help of the Moral Majority. Elected with the help of the Moral Majority and -- the Teamster's Union. That's a good combination. Organized Religion and Organized Crime working together to help build a better America. [laughter, cheers] They were going to get government off our backs. Yeah, but when it comes to abortion they don't mind government being in a woman's uterus, do they? [laughter] Yeah, backs are no good, but uterus is ok by them. These people call themselves Right to Lifers. Don't you love that phrase, and don't you love the way these kind of people pervert the English language? Right to Lifers? Don't you realize that most of the Right to Lifers are in favor of the death penalty, and they support the South American death squads, and they're against gun control, and they're against nuclear weapons control. When they say Right to Life they're talking about their right to decide which people should live or die. [cheers] So these right-wingers, you know, so these Reagan people, these right-wingers in general, these crypto-Fascists, they're against homosexuality, they're against pornography, they're against sex education, they're against abortion, yeah they're going to get government off your back but they're going to tell you how to live your sex life. And let me ask you this, how would they know anything about it? [laughter] Have you ever taken a look at those people? [laughter] No wonder they're afraid of their bodies, take a look at 'em! [laughter] Doesn't it strike as mildly ironic that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place? [laughter, cheers] Hey, I'm the first one to say it's a great country, but it's a stra-a-ange culture. We got a strange culture. ... This is a country where tobacco kills 400,000 people a year -- so they ban artifical sweeteners! [laughter] Because a rat died! [laughter, cheers] Know what I mean? This is a place where gun store owners are given a list of stolen credit cards, but not a list of criminals and maniacs! [laughter] And now they're thinking about banning toys guns, and they're going to keep the fucking real ones!! [laughter, cheers] This is a place where alcohol ruins more lives than cancer, and everybody gets upset when some athlete gets hooked on cocaine. You know Time Magazine and Newsweek put cocaine on the cover, but they put the liquor advertisements inside the magazine. It's the old American double standard, you know say one thing and do something different. And of course the country is founded on the double standard, that's our history, we were founded on a very basic double standard. This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free. [laughter, applause] Am I right? A group of slave owners who wanted to be free. So they killed a lot of white English people, in order to continue owning their black African people, so they could wipe out the rest of the red Indian people, and move west and steal the rest of the land from the brown Mexican people, giving them a place to take off and drop their nuclear weapons on the yellow Japanese people. [laughter] You know what the motto of this country ought to be? You give us a color, we'll wipe it out! [laughter] It starts around six minutes in to this video: YouTube - George Carlin 1 of 5 "What Am I Doing In New Jersey?" [1988] and continues here: YouTube - George Carlin 2 of 5 "What Am I Doing In New Jersey?" [1988] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelonious Monk Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 May his soul be flung onto a roof and stay there for eternity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swt61 Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 He broke some new ground and made us think. I loved his comedy. RIP George. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postjack Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 We seem to be losing a lot of great ones this summer. RIP George, who to me was like the Chomsky of standup. my personal favorite of his is his advice on how to raise kids: "leave them the fuck alone." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Saw an excerpt from a past interview with him this morning on TV: "I believe the human race has lost its way...we've squandered away our minds...everyone's off buying cheeseburgers and sneakers..." lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_maher Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 This day will now lack teh funnay. RIP, George. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pars Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Agreed. Crappy way to wake up to read this... RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomana Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Sad news. Only comedy album I ever purchased, back in early highschool, was one of his, though I no longer remember which one. ...reminds me...gotta send the Lenny Bruce set off to Voltron....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Sad news, indeed. He was awesome, even if a little wilted in the last comedy special I saw (only part of). R.I.P. Good of you to remember, Boomy. I forgot too! Oh yeah, shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 R.I.P George. Say Hi to Bill Hicks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riceboy Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 One of favorites by George. Baseball vs Football: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YphEUa5LPjM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphsci Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Well that really sucks, he had to die while the witless shrub was still in charge of the asylum .... shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chekhonte Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 that really does suck. He was with out a doubt my favorite comedian. He had the best comedic timing and delivery of any stand up comedian I've ever listened to. I'd hope that he'd rest in peace but he was a fucking atheist so he's either burning in hell or more likely just no longer exists. PS why the fuck was tits on his list of words you can't say on TV? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Knuckledragger Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 ^^ Odd, why did this one not embed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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