Was he really as great as everyone says?
Was he really as great as everyone says?
Luke Watson
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James Jackson
Poor man’s Lenny Bruce
Chase Williams
He was a old boomer hippy fart
Jaxson Jackson
I cringe when i think about my Carlin phase
Jeremiah Ramirez
He was an important figure for his time, yes.
Kevin Cox
Carlin claimed to rebell against the power system and break with the generation of the fathers which he pretended the establishment. Little did he know that he kept firmly in the pre-sanctioned limits of debate the power system allowed and which literally created the hippie movement and civil rights movement. Carlin knew this, but not how to go beyond it. Right now there is no pattern of social revolt which the machine, consumerism, deep state, capitalist-industrial system, the grid and matrix does not absorb. If there ever will be again, it would have to transcend all used up paths of the past.
He was a boomer hippie dude weeder who pretended to be Marxist Jesus and failed to be the prophet he wished he could be. Still funny though.
Jack Bennett
His advertising piece always make me laugh, just the fact that he's reciting that lost of words from memory is enough
Joseph Rodriguez
A lot of it is his delivery. He can do a bit about losing things, something that would bomb for another comedian, and turn it into something funny.
Jace Lewis
I don't find him funny, but entertaining. It's the way he speaks about things and his delivery.
Camden Rivera
Yeah he's pretty good, literally turned into a grumpy old man at the end but I would love to see his take on the current year culture.
Jordan Ortiz
His whole shctic was saying obvious shit you should have realized in 8th grade.
>the government is your slave master
No shit?
David Thomas
He's one of the greatest public speakers of all time
Not only was he a skilled comedian, but he had a superior delivery and mastery of his voice and stage presence.
Dylan King
>deep state
Why specify deep state? The whole of the government is corrupt, not just a shadowy behind the scenes portion.
Carter Ramirez
And the breakthrough on the smoking cat came late. It was 8 years ago actually. "smoking cat" is an industry term, it's what the smoking industry calls a tattletale teenager who tells on his friends after they've all tried smoking for the first time. And it is actually a foreign translation, bastardization of the term "smoking rat". But the phrase was confused when secret documents went back and forth between China and America. These documents are still secret. And the only reason I know about the term is because I know a man, a friend...let's call him Timothy. Yea. Yes. It's a fake name for his protection. Timothy worked for Philip Morris for sixteen years and he had seen the documents. When he told me, it was a "Aha!" moment. And he said: "but how?". "How could this cartoonist Jim Davis know about this obscure term from the mid seventies used exclusively by a few cigarette companies?". This is still a mystery to me. But I connect the dots by noting Jim Davis's childhood experiences on a farm.
He must have seen something. What could it be? Timothy went on to tell me there was one particular smoking cat. A boy, from...yes...Indiana. A boy named Ernie Barguckle, who became a thorn in the side of the tobacco companies for a couple of years. He did more than tattle to his parents. He and his family took legal action and they eventually received a huge settlement payout. But that name is too similar. Ernie Barguckle...Jon Arbuckle. Jim Davis must have used this. There's more here. Ernie Barguckle spent nearly half that settlement money on experimental medical procedures to cure his...impotence. He was impotent. So he was a smoking cat with a...a metaphorical pipe that did not work. Are you starting to see the layers here?
Benjamin Stewart
Alexander Cook
Early Carlin is easily a contender for GOAT stand-up.
Carlin on Campus is the best stand up special ever. I've seen it, like, 6 times, and certain bits still kill me every time.
Landon Ortiz
Because politicians you can vote for are merely puppets for billionaires, lobbyists and particular interests. Actually as Carlin himself said: they are there to give you the illusion of choice. The actual power structure that determines long lasting policies is institutional and permanent. The usual meme is Henry Kissinger in the USA or was someone like Peter Sutherland in the EU.
Just doesn't role of the tongue like 'deep state' ye know
Isaiah Robinson
He was basically the living embodiment of Reddit before Reddit existed.
Hard to tell whether or not he was funny because he never told a single joke.
Leo Ross
cringe
Noah Hill
Honestly don't agree with a lot of his stances on shit but I still think he's a pretty goddamn funny comedian, deserves most of the hype.
Ian Jackson
Yes, his shit still holds up and he had insights that were ahead of his time.