Monday, June 23, 2008
George Carlin 1937-2008
I grew up listening to George Carlin records. I was introduced to them by a friend who had an older brother and he would let us listen to his records--they were much cooler than ours. My sister Val and I would memorize some of the cleaner routines and repeat them at the dinner table. Everyone one would laugh till it hurt. We thought his drug humor was funny even though we did "get" all of the joke.
Through George Carlin I got interested in all sorts of other comedians and writers. Every time I use the word "stuff" I think about his riff on "stuff".
Earlier this year, we rented his last HBO special from net flicks and thought we'd watch it as a family. We talked to our son before and prepped him for the language part; none of this is repeatable at school. That many swear words just got boring.
I enjoyed his observations and his message that we need to not take things for granted, but the swearing got old fast. Maybe I'm getting old?
Here's the wikipedia link for him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_carlin
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I actually saw George Carlin, in Las Vegas, WITH MY PARENTS, during the early 1990's. His entire routine was on euphamisms for masturbation. He has a whole list. He said people gave him suggestions. The list was *really* long.
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