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Author Topic: George Carlin dead at 71 - RIP Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-23-2008 09:20 PM                     I wonder if he heard a two minute warning?  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-23-2008 10:15 PM                        ...and I won't have to die...I'll "pass away!"  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-23-2008 11:40 PM                     "I dread the deaths of certain super-celebrities. Not because I care about them, but because of all the shit I have to endure on television when one of them dies. All those tributes and retrospectives. And the bigger the personality, the worse it is. For instance, imagine the crap we'll have to endure on TV when Bob Hope dies. First of all, they'll show clips from all of his old road movies with Bing Crosby, and you can bet that some news anchor asshole will turn to the pile of clothing next to him and say, "Well, Tami, I imagine Bob's on the Road to Heaven now." Then there'll be clips of all those funny costumes he wore on his TV specials, including the hippie sketch, where they'll show him saying "Far out, man, far out!" They'll show him golfing with dead presidents, kissing blonde bombshells, and entertaining troops in every war since we beat the shit out of the Peloponnesians. And at some point, a seventy-year-old veteran will choke up, and say, "I just missed seein' him at two, 'cause I got my legs blowed off. He's quite a guy." Ex-presidents (including the dead ones) will line up four abreast to tell us what a great American he was; show-business perenials will desert golf courses from Palm Springs to O.J.'s lawn to lament sadly as how this time, "Bob hooked one into the woods"; and, regarding his talent, a short comedian in a check-ered hat will speak reverently about "Hope's incredible timing." And this stuff will be on every single newscast day and night for a week. There'll be special one-hour salutes on "Good Morning America," the "Today" show, and "CBS This Morning." Ted Koppel will ask Henry Kissinger if it's true Bob Hope actually shortened some of our wars by telling jokes close to the frontlines. CNN will do a series of expanded "Show Biz Todays." One of the cable channels will do a one-week marathon of his movies. And it goes without saying that NBC will put together a three-hour, prime-time special called "Thanks for the Memories," but at the last minute they'll realize Bob Hope's audience skews older, and sell it to CBS. Then there'll be the funeral, carried live on the Dead Celebrity Channel, with thousands of grotesque acne-ridden fans seeking autographs from all the show-business clowns who dug out their best black golfing outfits to attend "one of the hottest burials to hit this town in decades" -- Variety. And all this shit will go on for weeks and weeks and weeks. Until Milton Berle dies. And then it will start all over again. I dare not even contemplate Frank Sinatra and Ronald Reagan."  |  IP: Logged Chad M Calpito Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 06-24-2008 12:08 AM                        Damn, a funny comedian is gone. This guy was so funny. RIP George Carlin.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-24-2008 12:40 PM                     George Carlin's death is sad and somewhat surprising news. Lots of people live well past their 70s now. I didn't know he had a history of heart trouble. I think the news media went a bit overboard with all the coverage for Tim Russert. Carlin is certainly worth all the tributes he receives. He's one of the greatest comedians of all time and would deserve to be ranked high in a top ten list if one were to put together such a list of greatest comedians. Jerry Seinfeld had a lot of great things to say about George Carlin on The Larry King Show last night. Some comedians will sometimes throw out the term "fearless" when complimenting a fellow comedian who has daring material. George Carlin was the epitome of the fearless comedian. He didn't worry about pissing off anyone while knocking many out of their comfort zones to be challenged by what he said. Back in the mid 1970s when my brother and I were just elementary school age kids, we sneaked downstairs in the middle of the night to watch a repeat of Carlin's first special on HBO. Our parents rushed us out of the living room when it came on during normal hours. George Carlin wasn't above telling a good fart joke or making other scatological remarks. My Uncle Wesley had a lot of comedy vinyl LPs and the cover of Carlin's Class Clown stood out. We had to listen to that, but do so without any grown-ups finding out about it. It was pretty impressive how much touring George Carlin would do. He even did a show here in Lawton years ago at McMahon Memorial Auditorium. He had to cancel a return engagement when his first wife died. Carlin's last couple or so HBO specials weren't quite so great. He still was a master of vocabulary and delivery. But the tone was more angry than funny. Aside from that, his collection of work is pretty incredible. HBO2 will be showing 11 of George Carlin's HBO specials over 2 nights during this week. Wednesday, June 25 8pm - George Carlin at USC (1977) 9pm - George Carlin Again! (1978) 11pm - Carlin at Carnegie (1983) 12am - Carlin on Campus (1984) 1am - Playin' with Your Head (1986) Thursday, June 26 8pm - What Am I Doing in New Jersey? (1988) 9pm - Doin' It Again (1990) 10pm - Jammin' in New York (1992) 11pm - Back in Town (1996) 12:05am - You Are All Diseased (1999) 1:00am - It's Bad For Ya (2008) quote: Mike Heenan For instance, imagine the crap we'll have to endure on TV when Bob Hope dies. Uh, Bob Hope died a few years ago. He was 100 years old when he passed. quote: Mike Heenan And all this shit will go on for weeks and weeks and weeks. Until Milton Berle dies. And then it will start all over again. Milton Berle died a year before Bob Hope.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 06-24-2008 12:53 PM                        Mike Heenan was quoting from George Carlin.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 06-24-2008 12:55 PM                        Ah the dangers of embedded quotes - Mike was reciting an old (and prescient) Carlin routine... [Edit: - Doubled with David. What he said.]  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-24-2008 01:09 PM                     I see. Serves me right for not looking at Mike's post closer. Guess I'm just used to quotes looking like this: quote: What Someone Once Said The Cock crowed three times! Hey! It's in the Bible!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-24-2008 02:30 PM                        Bobby (and everybody) - you should check out Carlin's "timeline" on his website at georgecarlin.com. It's fun to read and his notes about his various heart attacks are hilarious: quote: George Carlin July 21, 1972 - Arrested at Summerfest in Milwaukee for using indecent language in front of wheelchair-bound children. Narrowly escape big cocaine bust by giving shit to the Siegal-Schwall Band while exiting stage. Band thrilled. 1982 - Second heart attack (Dodger Stadium during Mets game). This time God doesn't fuck around.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-24-2008 03:18 PM                       Yeah, I was sympathetic towards him regarding that arrest, until I read the details about it. It was at a Musicfest-type of celebration, where lots of families attend (we have them here in the Allentown area every year - it's very popular). He was saying stuff like, "I want to fuck all of you." It wasn't a free speech issue; that had nothing to do with it. He had to have a few screws loose to do something like that with children in the audience! Come on.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-24-2008 04:29 PM                        Well, by '73 he was well into his "counterculture" era and the language was part of his act, so anybody booking him should have known what they were in for - plus he says on his site that he was on a lotta drugs during that time, so who knows what was going on in his head. Not trying to make excuses for him, but the bottom line is I doubt any of those kids suffered any serious lifetime damage due to whatever he said.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-24-2008 05:11 PM                     And yet he has read for Thomas the Tank Engine. He also could clean his act for the Tonight Show. I've seen him when he has "gone off." It is not a pretty sight to witness and betrayed his genius. The man was an absolute original and an incredible weilder of the English language. He was always in my top three of comedians...George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby.....two are now gone. Steve  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-24-2008 05:42 PM                        I saw Bill Cosby on the Tonight Show a couple of months ago. He was so incredibly not funny that I turned the TV off before he even finished his routine.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-24-2008 06:05 PM                  I agree Joe. His humor is soooo "dated" and not funny. I never did "get" or appreciate his act on his TV show or the LP's. I lost most all respect for Pryor when he set himself on fire freebasing.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-24-2008 06:08 PM                        I agree with you guys about Cosby. His early albums were gems, but he's too big for his own britches these days, as my grandma would have said. He's reached the point where people crack up just from him talking. He doesn't have to actually say anything funny anymore. (I think he knows it, too.)  |  IP: Logged

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