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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Chris_ on June 23, 2008, 12:02:05 AM
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George Carlin Has Died (http://www.news4jax.com/entertainmenttonight/16681434/detail.html)
ET breaks the news that comedian George Carlin has died from heart failure. The man who made famous the "seven words you can never say on television" passed away at 5:55 p.m. Sunday at Saint John's Hospital in Santa Monica, his longtime publicist said. He was 71.
Carlin, who has had several heart attacks and a history of cardiac issues, went into the hospital this afternoon after complaining of heart problems.
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Very sad. My prayers and condolences to his friends and family.
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RIP, George Carlin.
He had a long and fruitful career. His stand-up "comedy" was not my taste.
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:( Prayers sent for him and his family.
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What a shock.
He always came up with some really funny stuff!
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Prayers for his soul.
He was funny way back when.
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When he first started out he was a funny gut, however, I guess all that hatred and heavy drug use in his later years came back to bite him in the a$$.
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RIP, George.
In his honor, the Seven Dirty Words . . . naaah. Just joking. I'll leave it for another poster.
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RIP, George Carlin.
He had a long and fruitful career. His stand-up "comedy" was not my taste.
How sad -- prayers for his family. In the 70's his material was groundbreaking and hilarious. His later stuff was more for certain tastes.
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He will be missed. I saw him years ago in Providence, R.I. (Won tickets through a radio contest). He was one of those comedians who had opinions on anyone and anything, and was not bound by political correctness at all - An equal opportunity basher. He was also very quick on his feet, and could improvise his way out of a corner.
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R.I.P. I liked his Brain Droppings book.
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RIP Mr. Carlin. He the was first comedian that I listened to with my mom years and years ago. We were both scarlet with embarrassment at first but we ended up giggling our heads off. That memory has always stayed with me because I got to relate to my mom on a different level. At lot of his later stuff was unfunny and repetitious and relied too much on certain schticks. But for the most part, he was groundbreaking and deserves the accolades. It's interesting to watch his specials on cable. For a while, they were showing a lot of them and you could see how he aged. In the last one, he looked especially frail and old. And sadly, I didn't find it funny enough to watch to the end.
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RIP
and my prayers to his family but I used to like him before hatred consumed his heart and his blind hatred for any Christian.
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RIP George. :(
I still remember when I heard Carlin for the first time. Must have been 12 or so and a friend of mine had an older brother with a GC cassette tape. ("A place for my stuff" I think?) In my somewhat sheltered childhood it was quite a coup to listen to that comedy "bad boy". (this was the early 80's)
Damn. I wish "early" (lol) exposure to raunchy comedy was all kids had to wory about these days. Let alone what I may be protecting my (future) kids from.
Miss ya George. Best to the family. Thanks for the laughs.
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Messin with your head was the best album he made.
He was good untill the 90's and then he became to polical and mean.
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Toledo Window Box.
RIP
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Messin with your head was the best album he made.
He was good untill the 90's and then he became to polical and mean.
He was a respectable social comedian until he became part of the tragedy, which is the cheapening and added coarseness of society. I can mourn the passing of a fellow man while not being too sad about a vulgar anti-Christian shock-valued commentarian no longer being around to perpetrate more dark and meaningless views upon a society which seem all too eager to embrace, without much critical thought, any stupid comment as long as it is wrapped in a blanket of intellectualism, no matter how phony or unfounded.
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Messin with your head was the best album he made.
He was good untill the 90's and then he became to polical and mean.
I noticed he started getting really bitter after his wife Brenda died! :(.
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Very true, he did turn bitter. But the last year or so when I happened on him, he was lightning up some, and made it possible to listen without "Channel Surfing".
I hope it was painless and he made the transition in his sleep.
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He was a great, intelligent and thoughtful comedian when it wasn't being an anti-Christian bigot. One of my favorite lines (probably was a part of the bit about what you cannot say on TV) was, "You can prick your finger, but never, ever finger your prick." A great play on words.
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His stuff untill the 90s was funny as hell. He admited himself that his later stuff from the 90s wasn't funny and he didn't like it. No matter what though he did what all comedians wanted to do and that is make us laugh. He was one of the few left from the old days of doing acts like Rodney Dangerfield. RIP George
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Today on Sirius (or XM or whatever is in my rental car) they were playing all of his old material. Most of it had me LMAO -- Football vs. baseball, pedestrians are assholes, etc.
But then they did one that really showed how bad his game got in the late going. He was talking about how assassination is peculiarly human (a correct observation), but how only "people who only wanted people to get along get assassinated -- Jesus, Ghandi, JFK, RFK, Medgar Evers, Malcom X.."
The Kennedys? Malcom X? WTF??? Just everyone getting along was NOT on their agendae. There was also some perfunctory Bush-bashing -- not inherently funny (that is, it was only funny to the BDS crowd).
Signs that the times shot past him while his brain stayed firmly parked in the 60s and 70s.
RIP. I am sorry to see you go but I am really sad to see your humor stopped years before you did.
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The seven words I cannot say on TV. My condolences to George Carlin's family. I did not know he was that old.
:bawl: :bawl:
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Yes, he did grow more cynical as the years went on, but I think that's due to the optimism of his earlier work meeting head on with the reality of today. If you listen to stuff from "Class Clown", that describes a lot of the basis of some of his leanings (if he dropped out in the 9th grade, methinks that the idea of "progressive" education had a lot to do with that).
While fairly vocal about his misgivings of his Catholic upbringing, the fact that he stayed married to the same woman for 36 years and then remarried after her death is about as Catholic as you can get in that department. So I pray this to you, George. You may have despaired, but I think your faith was still there, all along:
"Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen."
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George Carlin Has Died: ****.