Just watched the first half (HBO), and it's outstanding. First part was about 2 hours, and I was really impressed throughout. It's almost like watching cultural history unfold over the years, if that makes sense.
George Carlin's American Dream documentary
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George Carlin = Not Funny
Just a coke junkie...
Just a coke junkie...
That's a pretty shallow take. You should watch the documentary. It would save you from such unenlightened judgements.
OK, Boomer. He is not funny at all. Just a coke and heroin induced goof.
Perhaps you should take a moment to look deeper than "funny".
Cool, now we know who bought his album. Don't scratch it, boomer.
George Carlin was a POS husband, a POS dad, a drug addict and POS person.
Oh, and not funny. Except to boomer idiots.
Carlin had a drug problem that he overcame, his wife was addicted to alcohol, which contributed to her death. To say that he was a POS to his family, only they can say, but his daughter never gave that impression at all.
If you cannot see Carlin's rage towards the system, of corporations, and the government and its role in society, that is on you, and has nothing to do with age.
His later work speaks to people in their twenties as well as us in our sixties. Meaning those calling the shots in the world are a small group, and we are not part of it.
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George Carlin was a drug addict. Abusive to his wife and daughter.
WTF is wrong with you. @burn587 @SEIOWA CLONE @tnoah
And what are you RonBur?since you're dumbing me tonight.
I don't mind talking if you want to get something out in the open. You never do though. Unless it's to degrade some dead person?
Count me as one who doesn’t understand arguing over whether a person is funny or not. It’s purely subjective.
@RonBurgundy, do you mean people shouldn’t find him funny because he’s not clever or too offensive? Or do you mean people say he’s funny but really mean something else?
@RonBurgundy, do you mean people shouldn’t find him funny because he’s not clever or too offensive? Or do you mean people say he’s funny but really mean something else?
Ronald Reagan=Ascendancy of Ignorance=Nailed that one.
You'd likely have a short list of people you can enjoy then since drugs etc. have been a part of the entertainment business forever.
I mean in some ways he wasn't being funny since he was simply being accurate about the state of our society.
There are shades of grey to all of us, I don’t expect entertainers to be great people. Most of them aren’t, just like the rest of us. But there are also plenty of stories of Carlin being an incredibly kind man, like this one from of all people fantasy football guru Matthew Berry. https://www.espn.com/fantasy/footba...erry-loves-hates-qbs-rbs-wrs-tes?platform=amp
Calling him just a coke addict seems awfully dismissive. He did a lot more drugs than just coke.