Arguably the most influential standup comic ever

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The essential elemental greatness of George Carlin discussed by other great standup comics, e.g. Jon Stewart, Jerry Seinfeld, others who found their mojo by studying the work of George

This little featurette is great and can be used as a guide to getting into Carlin

 
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Just from the thread title, before I hovered over it to see the content preview, I knew 'George'. None other even come s close.

One of my favorites is his anti-green rant that is almost also a pro- green rant.
 
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Just from the thread title, before I hovered over it to see the content preview, I knew 'George'. None other even come s close.

One of my favorites is his anti-green rant that is almost also a pro- green rant.
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That appears to be a pretty much verbatim write-down of the spiel in that ^ video. I figure he did so many shows, he had stock spiels after a while. He did a spiel over and over, until it became rote. After doing it 50-200 times he had it honed and memorized. He did not dream that up on the fly, it was a product of his life style... stand up comic constantly surveying "the scene."

From his wikipedia page:

2000s
Carlin later explained that there were other, more pragmatic reasons for abandoning his acting career in favor of standup. In an interview for Esquire magazine in 2001, he said, "Because of my abuse of drugs, I neglected my business affairs and had large arrears with the IRS, and that took me eighteen to twenty years to dig out of. I did it honorably, and I don't begrudge them. I don't hate paying taxes, and I'm not angry at anyone, because I was complicit in it. But I'll tell you what it did for me: it made me a way better comedian. Because I had to stay out on the road and I couldn't pursue that movie career, which would have gone nowhere, and I became a really good comic and a really good writer."[57]
 
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