4 Comments  :::   Post a comment »

1. Comment by Karl on 6/24 @ 6:36 pm #

   Seinfeld (in his standup heyday) was similarly known for honing new material as relentlessly as Carlin did, so I have to say I’m not surprised at Jerry’s eulogy.

2. Comment by Roboc on 6/25 @ 6:14 am #

   Joan Rivers was on Fox News> I think I heard her say that we haven’t lost Goerge Carlin, he’s right over there in the coffin!

3. Comment by The Lost Dog on 6/25 @ 10:22 am #

   Carlin was like Neil Young.

   Gifted and subtle as a young man, and then picking up the seven pound sledgehammer in later life. Somehow, the subtlety evaporated and we wound up with a bitter parody of what he had been.

   It’s just my thing. When you directly bring in politics, art ceases to exist, and it becomes propaganda. I get enough of that crap daily, and I don’t need to look to once great entertainers for more of that shit.

4. Comment by Dread Cthulhu on 6/25 @ 10:40 am #

   Carlin turned into the sort of bitter old guy he used to rail against — the crabby old bastard out on the porched screaming for the damned kids to get off his lawn.

   To be fair, this is probably just the nature of serious comedy — laughing at pain — in that, in the end, the pain almost always wins. Lenny Bruce was reduced to shouting the transcripts of his trials at the audience.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

TrackBack URI: http://proteinwisdom.com/wp-trackback.php?p=12604

Leave a comment

If you want to leave a feedback to this post or to some other user´s comment, simply fill out the form below.