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D.Z. says ...

I'm gonna miss the guy. I wish I had the chance to meet him or seem him on stage...

comment #2

BurmaShave says ...

Shit, Fuck, Cocksucker. Seriously though, fuck. Enough! What the fuck is going on.

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PoisonSkin says ...

fuck. glad I got to see him a few years back.

that seals it. cosby is touring this fall and I'm going

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The Hoyk says ...

Yes, but with all respect, Cosby doesn't believe in saying filth flarn flarn filth in front of people.

comment #5

CinemaPhreek says ...

My heart aches, my vision blurs with tears, my voice cracks and ears catch the last echoes of a challenge to mindless authority...

"shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits"

He has found the smallest version of his stuff possible. An era dies tonight and fuck are we the poorer for it...

comment #6

Nick29 says ...

I had the great pleasure of meeting him in a Denver bookshop when he was on a book tour a couple of years back. I got to shake his hand and say thank you. His comedy has never failed to cheer me up.
I saw him a short time later on stage. He basically stood at the microphone and told jokes written from a legal pad. He was working out the kinks of a new routine and I still can't believe I got to see a great master at work, though I'm sure the legal pad was only there due to memory difficulties..
The comedy of George Carlin is a rite of passage for anyone with a good sense of humor. I hope he is enjoying the answer to the age old question: What happens when ya die? Too bad we'll have to wait til we're gone to hear that bit.

comment #7

berg says ...

hey que pasa ... what do you keep in your pasa?

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D.Z. says ...

Ugh, now that I think about it, he was at my local B+N only a few months ago! I wish I had gone...

comment #9

quitstaringatme says ...

Goddamn it.

I'm a huge fan, ever since I watched one of his incredible HBO specials when I was, shit, couldn't have been more than 12. I have every one of them on tape somewhere. When I drove off to college for the first time I was playing his Brain Droppings book on tape. He was more than just a comedian.

He looked so frail in his last HBO special just a few months ago, but I thought we'd still have a few more years with him. He will be sorely missed.

comment #10

Monument says ...

Nick, I've seen other comics use a notepad onstage, and it generally is used to help them work out their material. Jerry Seinfeld did it in that documentary a few years back.

I remember listening to an audio version of his book Napalm and Silly Putty at the beginning of a very sad road trip. The first joke about hearing his Rice Krispies say "Snap, Crackle, Fuck You," caught me so off guard that I couldn't stop laughing and completely changed my mood. His comedy always had that effect on me, thankfully I can still listen to him. Thanks George, you'll be missed.

comment #11

Mjs says ...

"An era dies tonight and fuck are we the poorer for it..."

Just thought it deserved to be posted twice.

comment #12

quitstaringatme says ...

Oh, and of course Jeff uses the "big time pig time" bit for the clip, I knew it before I even clicked play.

comment #13

messiahcomplexio says ...

if there is an big invisible man living in the clouds, I'll bet George is standing at the pearly gates pissing in is ear right now.

After all of that you have the nerve to call yourself a supreme being?

RIP sir.
You were a master.

comment #14

BurmaShave says ...

Shit, he was supposed to get the Mark Twain prize here at the Kennedy Center in November. Unfair.

comment #15

UnChien says ...

this guy was such a giant for me that I figured he'd always be around. No more Carlin. Worse, no more Carlin-routines!

This is somewhat of a shock, even though the dude was 69 with two fingers up his ass.

comment #16

Movie Watcher says ...

I am shocked. George Carlin always made me laugh. The clip was right, we have some fat-ass people here, just go to the mall and look around. His observations were correct, and they were so obvious. His take on everytihing was brilliant. Goodbye, George.

comment #17

Josh Massey says ...

I was at a Borders a couple years ago, and heard his very distinct voice from across the room. At first I thought it was piped in, but no shit, there he was signing copies of his new book. Very lucky timing on my part, but of course I turned into a stuttering prick when I got up to the table.

We managed a short conversation about the Georgia Bulldogs (I was wearing a cap), and thus I got to check off one item on my bucket list: "Talk college football with George Carlin."

Obviously, I thought that would have been one of the harder ones to achieve.

comment #18

Rich S. says ...

A terrible shame. It's amazing that Carlin stuck around long enough to actually see himself become mainstream. I remember a couple years ago watching an old episode of That Girl and being shocked to see George playing an office worker (suit and all!). I had thought that he was always that outsider guy lobbing bombs at the establishment. I have to admit, he looked pretty uncomfortable in that suit.

Plus, he was a hero to millions of kids as Mr. Conductor on Thomas the Tank Engine. Truly one of the greats.

comment #19

erniesouchak says ...

What a loss.

comment #20

p.Vice says ...

Too bad his film career didn't really extend beyond two Bill & Ted movies and a few Kevin Smith shitpiles.

comment #21

dixiedugan says ...

Totally bummed...I just loved the guy.

comment #22

Joe Leydon says ...

Believe it or not: I can remember seeing George Carlin and Richard Pryor as conservatively dressed (i.e., coat and tie) and ever-so-polite regulars in the mid 1960s on the Kraft Summer Music Hall hosted by (no kidding) John Davidson. Geez, I would love to see some YouTube clips from that show

comment #23

Edward says ...

Thanks for the laughs George.

comment #24

ScottMendelson says ...

If Lenny Bruce was the Jesus of comedy (martyred for exposing our societal sins using stand-up comedy, dying so that others could follow in his footsteps without fear), then George Carlin was surely one of his saints. Carlin was the last of the holy trinity of stand-up comedy (Bruce, Carlin, and Richard Pryor). He will be missed.

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SomeCallMe...Tim says ...

I discovered George Carlin through his routines on Dr. Demento and would repeat his Ice Box Man bit to myself on the walk to school until I had it memorized.

I later discovered the "naughty" bits and I'm afraid that's what he will be remembered for... 7 dirty words and all that... but he was so much more.

He was the great agitator of our times, the fly in the ointment, always yearning for a new way to look at the world and show how f'ed up it truly was. But there was always a perverse sense of joy in these discoveries and revelations, like he was already beyond this world, talking to us from the heavens and pointing out how silly everything was down here, and for that I am eternally grateful.

comment #26

lipranzer says ...

RIP, George. You made the world a better place, even if you didn't believe it was.

comment #27

Jean says ...

One of my favorite bits of his: "If you want shit in this country we've got plenty of choices, but the important stuff we're shit out of luck: Ice cream? Sure, we've got 31 flavors; Political parties? Sorry, you've only got 2..."

I miss him already...

comment #28

vp19 says ...

No more Carlin. Worse, no more Carlin-routines! George Carlin...in his own way, the Ernst Lubitsch of standup. (I hope some of you get the allusion.)

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dd says ...

One of my favorite bits of his: "If you want shit in this country we've got plenty of choices, but the important stuff we're shit out of luck: Ice cream? Sure, we've got 31 flavors; Political parties? Sorry, you've only got 2..."

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