Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
On the Mt.Rushmore of stand-ups that I've seen. Eddie, Chris Rock, Seinfeld, and I'll keep the last one secret to stop people from bitching at me.
carlin's gotta be in the team picture, right? i get that he's not necessarily too popular with people who don't like him (wow, what a fucking concept i just came up with there =) but i mean.... the dude had a serious run of quality starting with the HBO specials in the late 70s through the 80s and into the 90s where he was just on fucking point. i'd go as far as to classify him as one of my favorite contemporary philosophers (the concept that the planet created humanity to bring it styrofoam is just so beautiful i can't help but dig it)
and ummm, yeah, he was rufus in bill and ted's excellent adventure. gotta love the metaphor there..... two hapless losers playing in their own little garage band are told that their music is the #1 key in ushering in the utopian society of the future BUT ONLY IF THEY PASS THEIR HISTORY EXAM and btw, hi, i'm george carlin [sitcom entrance applause] and here's a time machine.
fucking wicked concept, if i must say so myself. and i'm an odd one whose mind was blown when i first saw carlin doing standup and i thought "omfg.... rufus does standup?" --- things got better from there on out.
also, that EP of the george carlin show ("george meets up with an old friend" methinks?) where he comes across weed for the first time in ~25 years is suitably hilarious.