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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.
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!
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.
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.