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06-23-2008, 07:43 AM
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(George) Carlin, counterculture comedians' dean, dies at 71
Carlin, counterculture comedians' dean, dies at 71
LOS ANGELES (AP) - George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" routine, died of heart failure Sunday. He was 71.
Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas.
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06-23-2008, 07:58 AM
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06-23-2008, 09:02 AM
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Wasn't he an athiest? 
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06-23-2008, 09:13 AM
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That is sad news.
He was unique and funny as hell, no matter what you beliefs.
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06-23-2008, 09:14 AM
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Not only was he an athiest he was a Christian-Basher, an America-Hater, and an old bitter, hateful enemy of everything we believe in here...
His early work when his whole routine was satiring the media or making comic comparisons of words and their uses were classic comedy, and IMO, the peak of his career... In his latter years be became a bitter leftist activist using the stage as a platform for his hateful attacks on the America we love and want to preserve... He was the classic, bitter Marxist revolutionary, and I do NOT mourn his passing...
The loveable entertaining George Carlin died many years ago... What died last night was a cheap imitation of that man...
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06-23-2008, 09:25 AM
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Never thought he was very funny. Not my type of humor.
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06-23-2008, 09:26 AM
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While I don't feel schadenfreude at his passing, I can't feel much pain or grief, either.
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06-23-2008, 09:27 AM
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I can remember my dad, who died in 1968, literally rolling on the floor when Carlin did the Hippy Dippy Weatherman routine. 'Course, I was rolling there on the floor with him!
But this clip doesn't have the truly final forecast. (Not a direct quote) With "...the thunderstorms occurring from a point along a line starting at (whatever) miles SSE of Secaucus, NJ, and extending to a point 20 miles NNW of (somewhere), but don't sweat the thunderstorms, because the radar also shows a fleet of Russian ICBMs coming in....."
Rest in peace, George.
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06-23-2008, 09:39 AM
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Not only was he an athiest he was a Christian-Basher, an America-Hater, and an old bitter, hateful enemy of everything we believe in here...
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This.
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06-23-2008, 10:21 AM
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This is like Vuja De - that eery feeling that this has never happened before!
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06-23-2008, 10:40 AM
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My main concern was not in holding it against him or trying bash him, it was just that it's too late for him to change it now.
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"I answered him 'yes' because I have the confidence in that readiness and knowing that you can't blink, you have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we're on, reform of this country and victory in the war, you can't blink. So I didn't blink then even when asked to run as his running mate," - Sarah Palin
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06-23-2008, 10:45 AM
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Not only was he an athiest he was a Christian-Basher, an America-Hater, and an old bitter, hateful enemy of everything we believe in here...
His early work when his whole routine was satiring the media or making comic comparisons of words and their uses were classic comedy, and IMO, the peak of his career... In his latter years be became a bitter leftist activist using the stage as a platform for his hateful attacks on the America we love and want to preserve... He was the classic, bitter Marxist revolutionary, and I do NOT mourn his passing...
The loveable entertaining George Carlin died many years ago... What died last night was a cheap imitation of that man...
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Ditto this. Where once upon a time he would have you cracking up, it just became the kind of humor only an idiot far left hate mongerer would enjoy.
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06-23-2008, 11:11 AM
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What Laz said.
What IC said.
What PR said.
What Prez said.
Hard for me to feel any grief -- hell, I take actual satisfaction in it -- when a hate-America shiite-eater croaks.
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06-23-2008, 11:17 AM
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06-23-2008, 11:19 AM
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I never found him less than hilarious. Even when he (frequently) went over the line of good taste, he was hard-hitting, thought-provoking, had impeccable timing and wasn't afraid to court controversy. One of the greats of stand-up comedy.
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06-23-2008, 01:31 PM
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Not only was he an athiest he was a Christian-Basher, an America-Hater, and an old bitter, hateful enemy of everything we believe in here...
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I happened to be in front of the TV once when he was cracking a joke on some HBO special. What he said was so despicable I wouldn't repeat it to anyone, and certainly not here.
I'm not gonna miss him.
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06-23-2008, 01:33 PM
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I have a lot of respect for him, but like others I preferred his earlier work, especially his takes on the use of language. He's an example of how even a leftist can be against PC language.
I found however that his political and religious humor became increasingly bitter and hateful, and with each new release I found him more difficult to listen to.
At his peak, however, he was almost beyond compare.
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06-23-2008, 01:35 PM
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06-23-2008, 04:21 PM
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Now, he's beyond repair.
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Originally Posted by Laz
Not only was he an athiest he was a Christian-Basher, an America-Hater, and an old bitter, hateful enemy of everything we believe in here...
His early work when his whole routine was satiring the media or making comic comparisons of words and their uses were classic comedy, and IMO, the peak of his career... In his latter years be became a bitter leftist activist using the stage as a platform for his hateful attacks on the America we love and want to preserve... He was the classic, bitter Marxist revolutionary, and I do NOT mourn his passing...
The loveable entertaining George Carlin died many years ago... What died last night was a cheap imitation of that man...
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Yep...he used to be one of my favorite comedians...but, for the past 20 years or so, he's done nothing but disgust me.
I'm saddened in his passing without coming to Christ...but, I'll not shed a tear because a bitter man who hated the country that afforded him his freedom can no longer denigrate her.
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