George Carlin

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I'm at the age where I start noticing things like, he was younger than my parents.

Many years ago, I posted on the old Flip Wilson Show. For two years it was the most popular show in America drawing an audience that's impossible in today's cable splintered world.

When Carlin went from doing his Newhart-esque routines -- I remember Christopher Columbus' second in command trying to explain his orders to the crew -- to his social commentary, Flip Wilson was the first to welcome him back. Carlin couldn't do The Seven Dirty Words routine there, but I remember how different he was. He wasn't just doing jokes, nor did he do character based social satire the way Wilson did, it was a new type of comedy to an eleven year old and, along with Doonesbury and Wilson himself, helped open my political and social mind.

Carlin's commentary was always pointed, but a scalpel needs to be sharp to make a clean cut. He seemed to genuinely like people even as he expressed doubts about humanity.

I'll miss him.

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[wadjet-theperv.livejournal.com]

So will I, although his most memorable performance for me, living and growing up in England, was in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. I've heard a few bits other than that, but afaik he didn't break here as a comic.

It's sad. :o(

[riverfox.livejournal.com]

Me, too. *sighs*