I've never found Carlin to be bearable as a standup comic. He was much better at quotable quips; I never watched one of his standup routines all the way through, though it only takes one to see why he had heart attacks.
That one was in grotesquely poor taste, just a string of racial epithets and not funny at all. Yes some young black pe…
I've never found Carlin to be bearable as a standup comic. He was much better at quotable quips; I never watched one of his standup routines all the way through, though it only takes one to see why he had heart attacks.
That one was in grotesquely poor taste, just a string of racial epithets and not funny at all. Yes some young black people refer to each other with the N word but it's absolutely verboten in anyone else's mouth. I wish they would stop.
"He was much better at quotable quips; I never watched one of his standup routines all the way through, though it only takes one to see why he had heart attacks."
Yeah, this is a good point. Actually I don't think I've ever watched one of his specials in its entirety either. And while I'd seen the second half of this before, I hadn't seen the list of slurs at the beginning. Pure shock-bait. Pretty disappointing really.
I'm with you on Carlin, he was better in small bite-sized humor chunks. He was, in his day, more like a fouler-mouthed Jerry Seinfeld when he wasn't talking about politics.
I've never found Carlin to be bearable as a standup comic. He was much better at quotable quips; I never watched one of his standup routines all the way through, though it only takes one to see why he had heart attacks.
That one was in grotesquely poor taste, just a string of racial epithets and not funny at all. Yes some young black people refer to each other with the N word but it's absolutely verboten in anyone else's mouth. I wish they would stop.
"He was much better at quotable quips; I never watched one of his standup routines all the way through, though it only takes one to see why he had heart attacks."
Yeah, this is a good point. Actually I don't think I've ever watched one of his specials in its entirety either. And while I'd seen the second half of this before, I hadn't seen the list of slurs at the beginning. Pure shock-bait. Pretty disappointing really.
I'm with you on Carlin, he was better in small bite-sized humor chunks. He was, in his day, more like a fouler-mouthed Jerry Seinfeld when he wasn't talking about politics.