Rolluplostinspace wrote:i WAS A BIG FAN OF cARLIN YEARS AGO AS ARE SOME OTHERS ON HERE SO ALL THESE VIDS WERE POSTED YEARS BEFORE YOU TURNEd UP GPO.
He was a comedian a very sharp highly intelligent astute .... entertainer.
He had to sit down and write all that stuff and rehearse like any other performer.
He didn't mean it all.
It wasn't scientific.
The earth with plastic paradigm is a load of bollox that was .... good entertainment.
If it was a solid ball of plastic buried somewhere then the earth plus plastic would be just fine but that's not the case is it.
Plastic is choking the oceans.
Killing the oceans.
Causing massive problems for sea life.
It's leaching into rivers etc.
Even worse it is now inside all of us and as yet the consequences are unknown.
The George Carlin show is not a fucking science program.
He really isn't a great philosopher teacher or guru.
I never imagined I'd have to fucking make such an explanation!
George was a comic ok?
A clown.
He wrote and performed fantastically.
That well in fact that some people feel they have been taught great things by a great teacher ffs.
Carlin infused a lot of truth in with his comic exaggeration license.Thats why people love him. Im very religious and dont agree with half of his political opinions but everything
he says has a hint of truth in it.
I loved when he called into shows on radio and said that h was disappointed that one natural disaster or another wasnt as big as he wanted it to be...not as entertaining as he hoped..not high enough casualties--Because we all damn well know the ulterior motives --even that slight bit----that wants to see something spectacular even in tragedy.
He got that--and he delivered the lines with perfection.
I loved his routine about America being bullshit..based on bullshit. Because there is a morsel of truth there.
Comic geniuses tap into that...and transcend politics. I couldnt have cared less that carlin was a left winger(generally).
Another comic genius,,,Norm MacDonald(orig from canada) comments about the late night hosts of the present and how their political humor is not funny.
the laughs are from partison instudio crowds who will chuckle at anything cuz it bolsters their inner hatred . -The kinda shows that many of the schmendricks on thesleepingdogs quote.