George Carlin dead at 71

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OWB said:
Not that clever? Are you serious? The man had a fantastic brain. Maybe you just didn't get it.
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I agree 100% and i didn't even care for much of his comedy. It was very intellectually driven, even though many of the words he used were not. Maybe that is why I didn't like him too much. I guess I just prefer lighthearted comedy.
 
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This is a horrible day. Carlin was incredible, and a lot of people who don't like him don't realize that his jokes were incredible because of the era in which he told them. The jokes now wouldn't stand out, because comedians learned from his bits. He's like Bill Cosby or Richard Pryor - he changed stand up. His bits were original, his delivery was original.

And I believe, IIRC, he started believing in God later in life.
 
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KB5252 said:
I agree 100% and i didn't even care for much of his comedy. It was very intellectually driven, even though many of the words he used were not. Maybe that is why I didn't like him too much. I guess I just prefer lighthearted comedy.
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Yeah, to each their own. I can understand why some wouldn't enjoy Carlin, but I can't understand why somebody would say that he wasn't clever.
 
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I like how the distance of a person to you is directly proportionate to the amount of an a-hole that person is.
 
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his skit on the difference between cats and dogs will have you in tears as well.
 
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OWB said:
Not that clever? Are you serious? The man had a fantastic brain. Maybe you just didn't get it.
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OWB said:
Yeah, to each their own. I can understand why some wouldn't enjoy Carlin, but I can't understand why somebody would say that he wasn't clever.
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Yeah, I think you are right. "Clever" was a poor choice of words by me because his humor was often intelligence-based. This is true.

It is hard to describe what it was about it that was so off-putting to me. I guess maybe the constantly raised eyebrows, sort of like I'm telling you how it is and aren't I insightful, annoyed me.

For truly intellectual humor, I prefer someone more understated. Where you think it through and get there without feeling pressure from the comedian to think what he just said is funny. Steven Wright for example.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Yeah, I think you are right. "Clever" was a poor choice of words by me because his humor was often intelligence-based. This is true.

It is hard to describe what it was about it that was so off-putting to me. I guess maybe the constantly raised eyebrows, sort of like I'm telling you how it is and aren't I insightful, annoyed me.

For truly intellectual humor, I prefer someone more understated. Where you think it through and get there without feeling pressure from the comedian to think what he just said is funny. Steven Wright for example.
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Why is that intellectual?
 
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Vercingetorix said:
This sucks. A lot.



The only thing more appalling than a religious person who claims to know exactly what's in the mind of God is one who dances on the grave of someone he thinks is going to hell. How Christlike.
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I was going to say something similar. You put it so perfectly that there is no need for me to muddy the crystal clear water.
 
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Steven Wright's comedy isn't so much intellectual as it is cerebral.

"I had a dream that a bunch of midgets were trying to assassinate me, so I bought an armored car, but since they were midgets, I made it a convertible."

That's not intellectual.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Yeah, I think you are right. "Clever" was a poor choice of words by me because his humor was often intelligence-based. This is true.

It is hard to describe what it was about it that was so off-putting to me. I guess maybe the constantly raised eyebrows, sort of like I'm telling you how it is and aren't I insightful, annoyed me.

For truly intellectual humor, I prefer someone more understated. Where you think it through and get there without feeling pressure from the comedian to think what he just said is funny. Steven Wright for example.
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Carlin must have made a "jorts" joke somewhere along the way...:whistling:
 
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lawgator1 said:
Yeah, I think you are right. "Clever" was a poor choice of words by me because his humor was often intelligence-based. This is true.

It is hard to describe what it was about it that was so off-putting to me. I guess maybe the constantly raised eyebrows, sort of like I'm telling you how it is and aren't I insightful, annoyed me.

For truly intellectual humor, I prefer someone more understated. Where you think it through and get there without feeling pressure from the comedian to think what he just said is funny. Steven Wright for example.
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OrangeEmpire said:
Why is that intellectual?
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Because the humor lies in the clever concept, not in the massaging of it by a guy who acts like its funny. My mother used to tell me she hated Bob Hope because he would tell his joke, and then look at the audience with a face that said "Ok, you can laugh now." Kinda the same thing with Carlin, in my book. Too begging-for-laughs.

Wright, on the other hand, takes the opposite approach. Total dead pan delivery. He says it as though he is reading it. I'm not saying there is no act there -- there clearly is. But it has an element of here it is, laugh if you want to.





MG1968 said:
Steven Wright's comedy isn't so much intellectual as it is cerebral.

"I had a dream that a bunch of midgets were trying to assassinate me, so I bought an armored car, but since they were midgets, I made it a convertible."

That's not intellectual.
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I disagree. Actually, I'm not sure I see the difference.
 
#42
#42
Steven Wright is definitely clever and I think at times he's brilliantly funny, but nothing he has ever said has made me rethink my views on something. George Carlin, Dennis Miller and Dennis Leary have all given me a reason to think.
 
#43
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Funniest thing I have ever heard Wright say is:

"I got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the zebra did it."
 
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#46
Vercingetorix said:
This sucks. A lot.



The only thing more appalling than a religious person who claims to know exactly what's in the mind of God is one who dances on the grave of someone he thinks is going to hell. How Christlike.
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For a man to stand before others by definitition as a performer as Carlin did and put forth his religious and political views out there using his comedy act ast a vehicle as Carlin did and say that he did not believe in God and you were silly to beleive it as well, that's making a statement. Bravo good for him he's entitled to his opinion. It was'nt my intent to dance on his grave it was simply to say I think he's wrong and while he was intelligent and funny you can still be wrong.
 
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"What would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?"

Carlin: "I hope there's laughter. I hope God says...'So two jews walk into a bar..' "
-from Inside The Actors' Studio
 
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