1 It is fucking sad that this poor cocksucker last few years showed a marked decline in actually comedy and instead was a bunch of shitty rants, but never the less, before then he was the tits in observational comedy, and we motherfuckers will remember his classic pissy routines far into the future. Rest in peace, you cunt.

2 I can't really understand the reverence people have for Carlin, to be honest.  He did the same comedy routine for 50 years, and if his biggest contribution to humanity was making unlimited use of profanity common, that's not exactly an awe-inspiring legacy.

3

If he can't take a joke, fuuuck him.

4 George Carlin, shit, fuck!!
Cocksucker! Cunt piss!
Motherfucker tits.


Anyway, he was an early influence to show me that ppl are full of shit. Thats what helped me decide for myself whats up with the Dims... too bad he didn't see it too.

5 um, thats the new AOS copyrighted 5-5-5 rules right?

6 His death is just like his life was... not funny at all.

7

A "fucking" shame.

Sure, he hated republicans, the religious right, social cons, the military, GWB, and all that. His work had gone downhill, and he was given more towards angry ranting/lecturing rather than, you know, humor, over the last decade or so.

But, on the other hand, he certainly had no love of your standard-issue granola-eating pussy liberal-types, either. And the last thing in the world he would've approved of is a big ol' Nanny State, given his opinions of politicians and bureaucrats (of all stripes).

Sort of an equal-opportunity angry libertarian old coot. Not unlike Zappa... though Frank wasn't particularly angry -- he just though both sides were stupid and mock-worthy.

In some sense I think Carlin was, if not exactly a role model or a true follower of the AoSHQ Lifestyle, at the very least a kindred spirit. He'd obviously disagree with us on a host of issues, but I like to think that he'd have been up for some late-night hobo hunting. At the very least, the man was a fierce individualist. He did what he wanted, blazed his own trail, and made a long successful career out of it. Hugely influential, with no tolerance for idiocy, mediocrity, warm-fuzzy 'niceness', political correctness, or any of the other bullshit that's slowly eating away at Western Civilization. Worthy of some respect, I'd think.

A lefty, sure, but one of the good ones.

And regardless of the declining quality of his later work he still gets big kudos in my book for the groundbreaking and essential work he did in the 70s. Sometimes you just got to overlook the politics of the performer and enjoy the work. (Back before the politics became the performance.) I mean, all the not-dead-yet guys in Monty Python are various shades of barking lefties, and while it'd be nice if they weren't, it doesn't change the great work they did back in the day.

Hell, I'm still annoyed that Hunter Thompson's dead, and it's been almost impossible to read his stuff (what with all the dripping-with-venom-osity) since Reagan was elected. But he still wrote the "Las Vegas", "Campaign Trail" and "Hell's Angel's" books, as well as an ass-load of entertaining columns from the '60s and '70s... so I just reread those and ignore the later stuff.

Anyway, here's to you George, you crazy ol' motherfucker. Peace... and tell St. Peter to suck your dick when you see him.

8 Okay, how do you get to the "new" blog?

9 Let's morph the words into one of his quotes!  "When some Cocksucker is fucking impatient and says, "I haven't got all day, cunt," I always piss in wonder, Hey big tits: How can that be, cunt? How can you not have all day, you motherfucker?"

10 Never thought the cocksucker was funny.

11 He had been hawking his book this past year and gave a number of interviews. Can't stand the man.

12 Not to be picky or anything as vane as that, but if you were a reader of Pal2Pal, you would have known this news almost 3 hours before the wire services had it. Just sayin'
with a smile, of course.

13 Watch his HBO specials from the 80s. Dude was funny, for a time. Otherwise, eh, sorry you're dead, bub.

14

In a rant about the Pledge of Alliegiance, he opined:

These in school kids are required under the threat of social pressure, they’ll get ostrasized, for some reason they’ll fuck with you in these schools today. It’s mandatory let’s say, that you pledge allegiance. Think of these words: pledge allegiance. Now, we’re not the only country that has that.

“No country ever had a Pledge of Allegiance except us and Germany under Hitler and Italy under Mussolini. The Fascists, the Nazis, and us. That will tell you the kind of company we keep, okay?”

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H9H6KhMO4I

The kind of company we keep??
Well hell, ol’ George made alot of money in a country with a scary pledge. Not only that, this country defeated the Fascists and Nazis so that Carlin could use his freedom to bad-mouth America.

The only reason Carlin got on stage was to throw a turd in the punchbowl because that’s just the kinda prankster he was. We know he was a leftwingnutbag who hated the country, the military, and any vestiges of patriotism. We got it.

Note to Hollywood entertainers like Carlin and like-minded fans: The next time you want to take a liberal guilt trip over all the opportunities and the good life you have in this country, take a one-way trip out of the U.S. for one that will better accomodate your ideology. It’s one thing to read about or to briefly visit a foreign country; it’s quite another to actually be subjugated with no possible way out.

He hadn’t really done anything funny since “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television.”
Later in life Carlin morphed into a bitter, mealy-mouthed, self-absorbed, obnoxious parody. He made a living out of demonstrating just how pointlessly caustic he could be. He thought he was some kind of a Sage who had it all over the rest of us peons. He believed he blessed humanity with the mere presence of his wit and wisdom, and we were supposed to bask in the glow.

That’s why his popularity waned. Us ‘peons’ were sick of his condescending bullshit.
Fuck you Carlin. Good riddance.

 

 

 

15 Who's laughing now, huh? Yeah, that's right. You wish you were just stuck on the roof now, smart ass.

16 "Offal Haiku" Shit to Piss, Motherfucker with Cunt My Cocksucker had Tits.

17    George Carlin was undeniably funny, until he became a bitter old man.

18

laughed my ass off at him as a kid but his last ten years almost hurt to watch. I don't have any pitty for him, I think death was all he ever really wanted and now all his ertenal questions about God and the afterlife are answered. he sure thought he was right though didn't he? hope for his sake he was.

19

shit piss cocksucker

motherfucker cunt fuck tits

seven words not said

20 AM/FM.  Class Clown.  Toledo Window Box.

I grew up on that shit.  The George Carlin the under-25 crowd is familiar with is not, repeat NOT the George Carlin us old farts remember.  He'd always been a damn dirty hippie, but he didn't become a bitter, bitchy one until the 80s.

21

You know your career's hit the skids when your best recent work is in a supporting role as the voice of a VW van in a cartoon movie.

22 So long George.  Thanks for making me laugh.  Rest easy.

You fucking douchebag cocksucker.

*sniff*

23 I can remember laughing so hard at Carlin when I was a kid I thought I was gonna suffocate and piss myself at the same time. He was a funny, funny dude back then. Shame what happened to him when he got old.

24 For a supposedly "anti-establishment" figure, he could also be surprising lucid on some key issues: I remember one concert where he said that Greenies really didn't care about the planet (some boos and groans from the audience) but rather "...only thier piece of it". Brilliant hit on the Greenies and thier hypocrasy. He also said to the effect that "...whatever we do to this planet, she will shrug off after we're gone like an elephant shaking off a bit of dust"

25

Ringo Starr is dead?

26

8 Okay, how do you get to the "new" blog?

Here:  http://ace.new.mu.nu/archive/2008/6

Now everyone go look at the videos on the Oklahoma Auto Shoot. Much more entertaining than this crap post.

27

I was a bad little Catholic boy who loved George Carlin...

He had a riff on Class Clown, I think, about the sounds your stomach makes...that was some funny shit.

28

The George Carlin I remember is the one from 70's. The Hippy Dippy weather man. George during my youth was funny. It is later when he went on holier then thou political campaign that I quit listening or watching him. There are a couple of things he did in his early stuff like when talking about going to Catholic school that still crack me up. Like somebody early posted you have to go listen to stuff from the AM/FM, Class Clown and The Toledo window box.

Unfortunatley for my parents George is somebody whom I tried to emulate as a teenager, often with tragic consequences, i.e., I got my ass kicked for being a smart ass.

So George now that you have gone to the great beyond I hope you get to ask the question: Is God so powerful that he can make a rock so big that not even he can move it?

In person

29 strongly against the Vietnam war and strongly against the Iraq war, strangely, seems to have actually been liked by conservatives

30 Is he the "drive on the parkway, park on the driveway" guy?

31 Gotta say....I enjoy his early stuff like 'Wonderful WINO' and 'Congolia Breckenridge' more than the 'Seven Dirty Words.'  Carlin more than anybody popularized the 'profanity shock masquerading as punchline,' though others copying him had less talent and used that as their crutch.

Angry?  Shit, yeah.

But I thought the best joke I'd heard him tell in recent years was his "I was told I'd have to move to the right" when Ann Coulter came out on the Tonight Show. 

32 I forgot that Carlin started as a buttoned-down clean-cut guy, even into the late '60s.  Going hippie was shtick, designed to appeal to the people who were buying records and going to comedy clubs.

He was never the same after his heart attack. The first one in the 70s, that is.  After this last one, he'll be pretty much the same from now on.

33

"please do so using all of “The Seven Dirty Words” in the comments below."

Actually, given that there are no restrictions on bad language on the internet, and so, you're really not making any sort of a courageous, original or even humorous observation by doing so -- I don't know that George, or even Lenny Bruce, would care whether you use a bunch of schoolyard silliness as a tribute to -- what?  The fact that there's no shock value in the words shit, fuck,cocksucker, cunt, piss, motherfucker or tits anymore? 

Way to go, guys.  There's a legacy for you.  Ranks right up there with Rosa Parks, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

34 He went out as a pathetic, bitter old man.  Just like Hunter S Thompson.

Guess neither one had  things as figured out as they thought.

35 #29

Posted by: notropis at June 23, 2008 10:59 AM (cP1DU)

You can thank George Carlin and Lenny Bruce for that.

36

With George's death, we may be spared a few minutes on TV news from the never ending eulogy of Tim Russert, who by the way is "still" dead. 

Who will be the next Lefty obituary?

scrood

PS  With all of the "famous" Boomers dying, will we get a special cable channel (Dead-TV?) to remember all of them?

37

Carlin wasn't just "Seven Dirty Words":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YphEUa5LPjM

RIP, motherfucker.

38 This is not the George Carlin that I knew.

39

Where was that damn phonebooth when I needed it.

40

I guess comedy is a generational thing, and Carlin was before mine.

The commentor name 'A Lock of Che Guevara's Chest Hair' is funnier than anything I've ever heard from Carlin.

41

he did a funny bit years ago as a disc jockey in the Middle East, the station is  KPLO, the voice of autonomy.

42 Even in the 80s and 90s, when he was well on his decline to bitter-old-man status, Carlin managed to be funny from time to time.  He had a TV show sometime in the mid-90s that I saw a few times and enjoyed, and I still love his 1980s dig at bicyclists.

I remember one concert where he said that Greenies really didn't care about the planet (some boos and groans from the audience) but rather "...only thier piece of it".

Richard Pryor got in a few good swipes at the greenypants types back in the 70s too.  He did one bit about the overpopulation alarmists that was spot-on; it went something like: "There's too many people!  I have no place to ride my horsey!!"

43 There's shit, piss, fuck, cunt,
Cocksucker, motherfucker,
And tits.  So fuck you.

44 Eh. Overrated SOB. He had his shock period and seemed to pretty much coast on that for a good bit of his material. His blue notes were nothing new and played well in front of young, college age kids who got excited at hearing lots of profanity and in front of the inebriated. But I repeat myself.

As his act aged, and I can't say I thought it aged that well, he found himself competing with a zillion other profanity-laced "comedians" who had grown up in a coarsened culture. Shock just wasn't that shocking and his well was getting dry.

His insight wasn't that particularly keen though he did have the balls to say aloud what most already knew. BFD. He reminded me of arrogant professors who thought they knew shit.

In view of the total package of a person I saw and collection of messages he brought to the world, I can't say his comedy outweighs his negatives. I guess the comedy was the polish on a turd.

Not much of a tribute, eh? Sorry he's dead, but c'est la vie.

45

Heres your Haiku:

Fuck That Carlin Cunt (5 syllables)

CockSucking MotherFucker (7 syllables)

Piss On Shit-Tits George (5 syllables)

46 Death is sad.  RIP sir, but I'm very sorry you were a boring, unfunny cocksucker.

47

He had his moments...most before the last decade.  Along with Pryor, he was my comedy foundation growing up.

RIP.

48 Cunt is dead? Shit! Fuck!!
He's tits up, motherfucker.
Piss off, cocksucker.

49 Rat shit, bat shit, dirty old twat,
sixty-nine assholes tied in a knot,
Hooray!
Lizard shit!
Fuck!

50

Carlin was best as a. the voice of Thomas the Tank Engine (also voiced by Alec Baldwin at times) and b. the Krusty the Clown parody when Krusty goes edgy but then sells out again.

His comedy was OK, certainly very influential. He was no Dane Cook, though.

 

51 This motherfucker.
An unfunny cocksucker
Since seventy-nine.

Cock, tits, shit, fuck, piss.
More haiku about this twat?
Just can't be bothered.

52 George Carlin is one of those guys that lived to see himself become irrelevant but never knew it.  What was once cutting edge humor just seemed to get lost among the multitude of "shock comics" and "observational comics" and "shock observational comics".  His stand up act had turned into aimless (and amazingly unfunny) rantings against religion and politics.

"George Bush can go fuck himself!"  (crowd laughs and cheers for some reason).  "The Catholic Church!  What the fuck is up with that?"  (Crowd laughs and cheers for no apparent reason).  "George Bush can go fuck the Catholic Church"  (Crowd erupts into paroxism of laughter)  "Why do we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway?"  (Crowd moves to have Carlin named funniest man in this quadrant of the galaxy).

May he rest in peace.  He died years ago.

53 Eh, another hippy icon dies. He wasn't really very good most of the time but he was brilliant on occasion. I tried to find an SCTV clip with a segment of Rick Moranis doing a parody of Carlin but they've all been pulled because of copyright concerns.

54 conservative rebel said it succinctly and correctly.

55 i guess right about now he is finding out out if he was wrong about their being no god...

56 25 roy: that's right funny, that is

57 "the Krusty the Clown parody when Krusty goes edgy but then sells out again."

I don't think Carlin was in that one.  He was one of the hippies that used to hang out with Homer's mom.


O/T:  Which site are we supposed to be using, this one, or the new one?  It appears that comments on the new site don't seem to make their way back to this one.

58

I tried to find an SCTV clip with a segment of Rick Moranis doing a parody of Carlin but they've all been pulled because of copyright concerns.

It was great. His Carlin walked around in an Army jacket, with index cards, observing things and scribbling bits. Everything was a bit.

From my childhood through the 80s/early 90s, Carlin was my favoite.

90% of what he did was nonpolitical before the election of the GOP Congress and then Bush. It used to be about the difference between cats and dogs (cats don't have eyebrows.) About how mice don't have shoulders. The news flash about a guy who has barricaded himself in his home -- but isn't armed and is making no threats, so police aren't concerned.

On his health: "First Richard Pryor had a heart attack. Then I had a heart attack. Then he set himself on fire. I said, fuck that, I'm having another heart attack."

In the end, he hated people like me. Before that, though, he was the rare comedien who made a young guy laugh out loud.

59

Yeah, if you think the 60's counter culture was a good thing for America, then y'all bigger morons than I thought. I will not lose sleep over another 'thought provokers' passing. I wonder if he found God in the last few years too?

 

 

60

 "the Krusty the Clown parody when Krusty goes edgy but then sells out again."

I don't think Carlin was in that one.  He was one of the hippies that used to hang out with Homer's mom.

You're right, but I think the writers based Krusty's persona in that episode on Carlin.

/ TV nerd

61 George Carlin had the same problem as John Waters - he was an old man desperately trying to shock a world that's long since passed him by.

62 This post is an excellent opportunity for AofSHQ to really break away from the pack among conservative blogs in the 'profanity instantiation' category.  Unfortunately, we're light years behind the lefty blogs.  Check out the tables over at Gateway Pundit.

63

O/T:  Which site are we supposed to be using, this one, or the new one?  It appears that comments on the new site don't seem to make their way back to this one.

"No one," I'm so glad you asked. Use the new site please...the old one is supposed to be dismantled soon. You're right; comments on the new site don't show up on the old one, but old ones do appear here. Problem is something to due with the time stamps, and the two sites aren't in synch. Comments from the old site push down comments on the new one, so it screws up the order and the comments end up making no sense (as if they ever do anyway).

There's still some kinks to be worked out on the new site, but Management is working feverishly on fixes. (and by "feverishly," I mean drinking heavily and re-indexing their D&D collection of character cards.) If you have any additional trouble, please address your concerns to: S. Plover, esq., AoSHQ Ombudsman.

64 Cheshirecat nails it directly on the head Yeah, but awful grammar errors too...I was in a hurry.

65 For those who knew and admired Carlin years ago when he was "funny," I posit that it is because you were younger and less worldly. You have since matured and tired of Carlin's shtick. Your perspectives changed. Your definition of "funny" evolved. You grew up. Carlin didn't. And he inserted an extra nasty edge, a legacy I'm not so sure we should trumpet.

66 This article was written the great!Thanks for sharing.