George Carlin died Sunday Night of Heart Failure at a Santa Monica Hospital. This wonderful Genius of the Profane and Profound has left us....He was one of the first Comedians that I treasured. It started with a Bootleg tape of THE WORDS the summer I was 12, and I was hooked. After that those ILLEGAL tapes were traded and coveted. And then I got to see him for the first time on an October Night in 1975, I was on my first Date, and we were at a friend's house watching the very first SNL. ( I will be honest I remember SNL better than the date).He had an honesty and a clarity that was soothing, shocking and refreshing.....I last watched him in a movie- Jersey Girl a few weeks ago on Cable, and realized that he possessed an innate Humanity, and such a sexy cerebral persepective....he was permanently one of my first Crushes... Below some of the memorable Quotes and Insights.Sleep Well Dear George...R.I.P. dear man....
THE FAMOUS "WORDS" ROUTINE....
"When you're born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front-row seat."
{{ I used to have this bumper sticker on my first car, my 66'Olds Cutless.}}
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."
{{ Sent this to my grandfather on a Father's Day Card....}}
In the same interview, he recounted his experience of a California earthquake in the early-1970s as: "...an amusement park ride. Really, I mean it's such a wonderful thing to realize that you have absolutely no control... and to see the dresser move across the bedroom floor unassisted... is just exciting." Later he summarized: "I really think there's great human drama in destruction and nature unleashed and I don't get enough of it."
{{{ This philosophy made him so magical and B-A-D.....you knew if you have been on the Titanic, you would want to sit and share a drink with him while the damn boat went down....}}}
"I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?"
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
{{{ I still have this on a magnet on my frig....}}}
"Women like silent men, they think they're listening."
{{{ So true that is makes me laugh....}}}
A routine in Carlin's 1999 HBO special You Are All Diseased focusing on airport security leads up to the statement: "Take a fucking chance! Put a little fun in your life! ... most Americans are soft and frightened and unimaginative and they don't realize there's such a thing as dangerous fun, and they certainly don't recognize a good show when they see one."
