Comments on: RIP George Carlin

By: gifted typist

gifted typist — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:08:58 +0000

Doc Monk.
He is now.

By: Dr. Monkey

Dr. Monkey — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:52:56 +0000

He will be sorely missed.

By: gifted typist

gifted typist — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:47:39 +0000

Dick, a number of those quotes brought you to mind

Tagbagger, he would have loved your tribute, but not CBC’s. Sometimes that station makes me wonder.

Allison, I think he’d like the fact that so many people are laughing at his jokes even after he’s gone

RBJ, the comical is political too, I guess

HnP, comedy albums, ah comedy albums with turn tables and needles. How sweet.

By: gifted typist

gifted typist — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:44:09 +0000

Barbara, I’m glad people are recognizing him for his wisdom, so often people dismiss comedians as clowns

Tonardo, he did have a universal appeal

Doc, I should have turned my website blue too

Chance, you welcome. It’s true, he never reinvented himself, did he?

By: hunt & peck

hunt & peck — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:06:19 +0000

An early memory was sneaking into my brother’s room when no one and playing the album with the Seven Words on it. I would listen to it over and over, then carefully slip it back into place and leave the room exactly as I had found it. Only an elite few of us yonuger kids had heard the Seven Words - and we were cool (it didn’t lasst long). George Carlin was funny in everything he did - he even made Shining Time Station bearable.

By: Roberta Beach Jacobson

Roberta Beach Jacobson — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:27:52 +0000

His humor was bold and beautiful. It challenged us in a personal way.

By: Allison

Allison — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:14:12 +0000

I’m still in disbelief. He was such a part of my upbringing. As Barb said, he knew funny. That he did.

By: tagbagger

tagbagger — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:05:22 +0000

I first heard the 7 words - which were my introduction to Carlin - he was hilarious, and was a master of his art - just watch the Aristocrats, and see who tells the best version of the ’secret’ joke.

(And yesterday, the CBC cleverly beeped all seven of the words, which seemed to defeat the point of the whole bit on the toning down of the seven words…)

George Carlin dead - “shit!” “fuck!!!”

By: Dick

Dick — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:38:52 +0000

George’s “7 words you can’t say on television” always resonated with me, although I think it’s down to 3 now.

By: chancelucky

chancelucky — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:10:27 +0000

Thanks for the 50 bits of Carlin.

I always loved the fact that he was mostly about word play and social observation/insight as opposed to doing characters/voices or just plain silliness (though he could do those things Hippy Dippy Weatherman).

He also stayed funny yet stayed sort of rooted in the sixties at the same time.