George Carlin has passed on
 

Comedian George Carlin dies in Los Angeles at 71 11 minutes ago



LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71.



Carlin, who had a history of heart problems, died at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PDT (9 p.m. EDT) after being admitted earlier in the afternoon for chest pains, spokesman Jeff Abraham told Reuters.

Known for his edgy, provocative material, Carlin achieved status as an anti-Establishment icon in the 1970s with stand-up bits full of drug references and a routine about seven dirty words you could not say on television. A regulatory battle over a radio broadcast of his "Filthy Words" routine ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

(Reporting by Dean Goodman; Editing by Patricia Zengerle)

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no way!!!

that is so sad, i loved that guy.

RIP George, ya crazy old bastard you! I know you're NOT looking down on us, or up, or anywhere. :-) fuck.

and for all the motherfucking "golf punks"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AbSRCjG-VLk

^^aw man, that's one of my absolute favs.

Man the dude was old but when I read this after just signing on, my heart sunk. I have nothing but respect for his art and his mind. A true original, there will never be another guy like him but his influence will continue on.

A hero of mine has died. I wrote a whole post but I can't post it. Fuck his failing heart. There is no heir. Bruce, Hicks, Pryor, Carlin.

DITTO!

This is a sad day in my life. George was a saviour to me. Every time life is to difficult, I go to George to cheer me up. & he was the first comedian that I really became a fan of & studied as if every word & concept he thought of was a truth & a significance that really effected one's thought process.

"MAKE FUCK, NOT KILL"
-George Carlin

R.I.P George

"& thanks to our fear of death in this country, I won't have to die. I'll pass away. Or I'll expire like a magazine subscription."
-George Carlin

^Ha, yeah, George would have hated this thread title.

Passed on? He died.

RIP.

I am a poser hipster and therefore I am really sad about the death of George Carlin....

Wow. Yesterday, for no reason at all, I was thinking about how great he was and how everyone took him for granted. (This isn't really a coincidence. I often think about how great he is.)

In the next few days, look for accolades from people who shit on him for years.


Wonder what his last words were.

FUCKING SHIT, indeed. Fuck fuck fuck!

no more smashing watermellons? :(










































yeah yeah yeah, I know...

no.


no. no. no. no. no.


NO.

It is a sad day for anyone who likes to get angry

insane.

RIP Rufus

they don't make them like Carlin anymore...

exactly my first thought when i read this thread. carlin fucking died. which sucks terribly.

im gonna miss that sonofabitch.

Same here. It's kind of eerie how his last HBO special was titled, "Life's Worth Losing". Which was one of the top 3 of his career. You could talk endlessly on how George was an inspiration w/ the use of language, & the meaning of words. & a truther as well, but I'll always love his zany comedy, & early material. "Take Off's & Put On's" is one of my favorite comedy records. I believe it was his first record.

"Anyone can have bad breath, but you could knock a buzzard off a shit wagon."
-George Carlin

He finally swallowed enough saliva.
Last night I had a dream about my grandpa's funeral --- we had it again, even though he's been dead for 7+ years. They took his casket out of where he was buried and we had the procession again. I don't know how this is related to this at all.

Have your body shipped in peace, Georgie.

Hell Yeah! George knew what the value of records meant. This is a great little read, for it makes me feel good to have the George Carlin record collection I have. Which are in pristine condition.

i can't say anything everybody else hasn't already. he was my favorite comedian next to pryor. this blows hard chunks.

carlin on death:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3PiZSFIVFiU

i think what is most appropriate is to say...

"fuck it!"

I figured I may as well piss him off while he's with Pesci

ha ha ha ha

Bad news, I did enjoy his comedy but I did find it a tad over-rated.

changed my msn screename to this:

"I put a dollar in a change machine; nothing changed."

I'm just glad he finally got to find out who was right about god. Him or the religious people

Carlin:"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying; lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else."
"But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. "You know what they want? Obedient workers; people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they're coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club."
"This country is finished."

I liked him better in the early 70s. I found his recent stuff unfunny and very cranky.

His 60's stuff is surprising.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emGe0oF2ZM4

but classic Carlin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1GYP...eature=related

Yes. After that he sort of becomes a caricature of himself, seems to me.

everything truly great will eventually be seen as OVERRATED

I loved the last 10 years or so of carlin's comedy. he stopped just trying to make jokes and began to truly just rant about how fucking horrible he saw our situation is and how hopeless he finds it and how fucking stupid humans are, and getting stupider by the minute.
LOVE IT

sometimes you need to hear this shit

this is from a science magazine



He was one of the funniest humans ever. I rode in on the bus today listening to a compilation of his monologues, and several times, I busted out laughing in a way that’s generally considered unseemly on public transportation.


So my flimsy excuse for paying tribute to George Carlin on a Science blog is to assemble a few of his observations. He was full of wisdom, and at his best while pointing out that most of us are full of something else entirely. Since his death was reported on Monday, CNN has played a clip of Carlin taking an unnamed CNN weatherman to task for using a phrase like “rain event.” It got me to thinking about some of his other observations on science and tech stuff. Feel free to add your own, but as is often the challenge with George Carlin, keep it clean!
On Energy:
“Electricity is really just organized lightning.”
On Human Intelligence:
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
On Intelligent life in the universe:
“If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. “
On Meteorology:
“Weather forecast for tonight: dark.”
On Invention:
“When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent. “
On Aviation:
“If the “black box” flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?”
On Nature:
“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so f***in’ heroic.”
“It isn’t fair: the caterpillar does all the work, and the butterfly gets all the glory. “
and
“If a turtle doesn’t have a shell, is he homeless or naked?”
On Electronics:
“Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead?”
On Military Technology:
“The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”