George Carlin's American Dream: What George Meant To Me | Featurette | HBO
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2022
- "He created the scientific method for comics." Comedians Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Hasan Minhaj, Sam Jay, and many more share how the legendary comic influenced their own work. #WhatGeorgeMeantToMe
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Are his specials in HBO Max? I live in Finland btw
I cant get it in my country
@@jimmyryan5880 Use a VPN
Broken UA-cam URL
Funny how every famous person in this is working for the corporate people who George always ranted about and became famous for... Especially sell-out Stephen Colbert there... How times change people (and money from corporations). I used to look up to George Carlin AND Colbert when he was actually funny on Comedy Central.. now he is a corporate sell-out muppet of a human that most of us would easily prove and call a disgrace... Keep it real people... like George Carlin did
True story. A logger in northern California, a friend of a friend of mine, was injured on the job and the company refused to do anything about it. One of the other guys on the team kinda knew George Carlin. So, he called and almost begged for some help. George said, "Sure, I'll do two shows for you, one 'family friendly' and one for the adults." He came on up (I was at the second show). Packed house, of course. At the end, the guy who called Carlin realized that they had never talked money. Worried, he approached George. George said, "Well, I was kinda hoping someone would put me up for the night and maybe get me some home-cooked food..." And that was all he took. The rest went towards the lumberman's medical bills. George was utterly for real.
Angus, I believe your story is true 👍 I left two comments a little bit above yours feel free to read them. 😉🌻🌝😎
Great story!🙂
Wow!
That’s the kind of thing one hopes someone with the celebrity of George Carlin would do. To know he actually did it is so inspiring! I’m so glad I got to see his level- headed performances. He was one of a kind.
@@SimSim-zf9if true
"When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat." - George Carlin
Wow. You repeated something a comedian said that makes his money telling jokes to morons. How profound you are.
@@sayitdontsprayit9325 salty boi
@@sayitdontsprayit9325 Loser
As usual, George was 100% right.
@@sayitdontsprayit9325 Your performance was impressive. I watched you from the front row seat.
George Carlin was a Mark Twain-level humorist, satirist, social commentator. I wish we had his like today.
I genuinely think Bo Burnham is getting there
Open your eyes junior.
@@Jay-ft3xh Are you wanting him to be woke?
Jon is, in his own way and method.
@@diskeyes I like Bo and a lot of his social commentary, but he lacks the blue-collar working-class purity of Carlin or Hicks. I'm not trying to insult him or anything, but he was born into the upper class, and it does show. He lacks the grit and straightforwardness that Carlin had.
Read his daughter's biography of him. Through her eyes I saw a gentle, loving man with a perception of life that was awe inspiring.
Its too bad that he only had one child!
Thanks 4 the tip.
Thank you. I will buy that book today.
What's the biography called?
Carlin at first glance was a Comedian. But later you see that he actually was a Philosopher.
To better put it a philosopher that knew how to spread his thoughts.
He used comedy to relay his philosophy. A Master of Kung Fu. May Buddha bless him
I think it's the same with Diogenes in the sense both of them applied their cynicism in the face of absurdity thus providing clarity in a muddled world.
He knew "and even said so himself" that comedy breaks down walls. He was a philosopher first, comedian second. He had a message he wanted to get out there.
And if he didn't do comedy they would never listen. If you laugh at something someone says, it means you're open to listening to it in a way you wouldn't if someone was being serious.
He taught me that more than anything. It's the only way to change someone's opinion.
That’s kind of what’s happened to Chappelle & Chris Rock.
I always tell everyone how my dad took me to see his show when I was eight years old. He sat me down and told me that "you won't understand it, and it's not for your age, but this is important". I will always go back to watch Carlin to find clarity, levity and connection.
That’s awesome!
So Dope!!
Good man
Dude.. my pops did the same exact thing with my sister and I! I was 11 at the time. Dad sat us in the front row and he took a seat somewhere in the back. George comes out, immediately sees us and asks where are parents are. Sister points behind us and I hear my dad's voice from the back of the auditorium... "Hey, they gotta learn the truth someday, man." Needless to say, my 11 yr old brain exploded that night and I am forever greatful to both my pops and George.
@norman-m [KANDAGAIGO] So was yours!
I'm a Russian, and I adore Carlin. I love how he changed over the years, but between the young Carlin, mature Carlin, and grandpa Carlin, they all made sense in their own way, every one of them had something special to tell you, and you understood every single one of them, irrespectively of which country you were born or lived in.
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Absolutely. He says a lot of stuff about how ridiculous things are in America, but as an Israeli I can tell you that most of these things are true for Israel as well - and I strongly suspect they're true for any country.
I'm with you, brother.
The human condition is, after all, just that.
He happened to be an American, but his observations were rooted in humanism, no matter how he tried to distance himself on the surface.
Are there many people in Russia that like him? I wouldn't think your government would be cool w/someone possessing an album/ tape of George, the way he loved to speak out (truth of course) against his own government! I think we all know how your Gov. frowns upon that sort of influence..... I think it's so cool you guys were able to get ahold of his comedy. 🖐Hello Russia 🤚, from Las Vegas, NV. 💋🤙Good luck on your journey.....
@@sherry10-4 well, u would be surprised how many, actually. He’s a legend and his message only grows validity over time. All sentient Russian people adore Carlin
Yea, Carlin was a national treasure, the world needs more people like him.
National treasure indeed!!
After watching a lot of Carlin's stuff over the years I have concluded that he was far more than the greatest stand up comedian ever, he is in fact a social, cultural and political critic using stand up as his delivery mechanism. He is light years beyond anybody else. We sure could use him now!!
He would be shouted down and turned away. He spoke to many truths and too many today can't handle any truth that disagrees with their world view.
"he is in fact a social, cultural and political critic using stand up as his delivery mechanism"
He's what the guys who made South Park wish they were.
Man, what I wouldn't give to hear him weigh in on people like Santos, Cruz, Green, Trump and DeSantis, all fo Fox News and anyone dumb enough to swallow a single word any of them say. It's kind of hilarious in its own right that he was antiauthoritarian left and anticapitalist yet so many people I've met that claim to love him were the very type of people he mocked the most
You aren't paying attention, clearly. Solid comedian, superb social commentator. Nowhere near the best as either.
He was a force to be reckoned with but as always he is one of a small club with John, Cleese, Eric Idle, Dan Akryoid, Dudley Moore, Peter Cooke. For that combination of social critic and comedian he is indeed towards the top.
George Carlin and Robin Williams, two irreplaceable talents that have left such a very very large gap in modern society.
I'm not invested in celebrities usually. But I bawled my eyes out when Robin and George passed.
Don't forget Richard Pryor.
Both brilliant
@@richardrodriguez3004 Truly I was just thinking THAT. George. Robin. Richard. Geniuses who I have been lucky to live during their eras. Bliss
@3,14 _ Whatever you say. Whatever you say...
As a sociologist I always viewed carlin's humor as a way to prompt us to think about how we could become better as humans by pointing out the absurdity of where we are now. I think that's what he was trying to say; and to this day no one has been able to mix morals and crime and make you laugh about both, equally. A one of a kind jem.
im a huge fan of carlin. i think he was the best thinker and speaker of our time.
That's exactly what he did, he was far more than just a comic
@@vladimird5280 We need at least a few more like him:)
I have a similar feeling about him as an anthropologist. He points to the arbitrary nature of much of our current societal organization.
What made Mr Carlin so engaging for me was the analysis among the comedy. He was not a standard comedian, feeding a setup and then a punchline. He gave us something he thought was odd, told us why and extrapolated it, right in front of us.
That was a genius with a mind to find the inconsistencies.
When I was kid in the 1970s, before the Internet and cable tv, finding a George Carlin album was like discovering the forbidden fruit.
Or an 8-track tape that you could play in the car with friends before or after school: mine was Occupation: Fool.
@@MarkHicks326
Yes! I had both.
George Carlin was beyond a Comedian. He was an intelligent straight shooter and a very logical story teller!!
RIP LEGEND!!
He's both, intelligent and wise.
@@o.i.c.uvanish9169He was a comedic philosopher if you ask me.
The world really isn't the same without our old Uncle George. We all miss him so much.
I miss him 2
Very much
As a counterpoint to the conversation here about how George was studious and how he wrote out his shows word-for-word, I can attest to the fact that he could also be spontaneous when the situation called for it. I saw him live at a show in Grand Forks North Dakota back in the mid to late '70s. During the show there was a moth flying around the stage. It was well-illuminated by the stage lights so everyone saw it, including George. So off-the-cuff, George came up with a skit about the moth and about an insect's perspective of the world. I shall always treasure that evening.
Not too often I see “grand forks” in a comment. That’s incredible!
George Carlin seems to be almost universally admired and respected among other top comedians. I've seen lesser comedians become successful to the point that they think it's their actual person which is funny and that they just have to show up. George Carlin demonstrated that if you want to stay at the top level, you have to keep working hard: writing material, learning it, rehearsing it, testing it, editing it until you get it right. He was a great role model.
@beep boop He just wanted to be comfortable, so he surrounded himself with his stuff. ;-D
I thought the same. A lot of luck is involved with success. Those who are truly great take that luck, but still keep grinding all their lives.
We need people like George right now - truth-tellers.
We do! His name is Dave chappelle.
@@tattooed1979 Nah, Dave's got too much ego.
@@tattooed1979 My first thought was Jon Stewart.
@@R.senals_Arsenal Jon Stewart a truth teller?
We do you just dont like the truth they espouse and ask for them to be cancelled.
George Carlin, Frank Zappa, & Monty Python formed my view of the world. Still to this Day.... But MOSTLY George.
Definitely George, the others are a distant second
Same here
So glad Frank Zappa has been mentioned here. I agree.
I AM SOOO HAPPY THIS CAME UP! A philosopher did a segment on Carlinism, and explained how he is the last, great philosopher. They were not wrong! He was brilliant, unknown genius, huggable & absolutely amazing! One of the countries greatest losses of the century. We need his voice to continue in the world❤
You can watch any of George Carllins special and you can thing that he is joking about 2022
That because humanity Never learns .. Ever .
Oh absolutely!
*think
Think*
@@morrigan588 of course
I actually teared up during this clip. He was (and remains) such a hero to me. Would that we could all speak our minds with such lucidity... And balls out sarcasm. Bette was right: his last few were the mortal ride. Carlin knew his time was limited and he was in overdrive, trying to save us from ourselves. George was love, man, and he was trying like mad to shine light on the paths we needed to take to better ourselves as a society.
Perfectly said Marc…
Carlin taught so many of us to laugh, to question, to think critically, to see the world from different perspectives, how to love our fellow man, how to face unimaginable circumstances, how to swear, how to work, how to carry ourselves from cradle to grave.
Never gone, never forgotten.
One of the most important people of the 20th century, maybe the millennium.
Never really had a dad to walk through life with but george was their to head me in the right direction. Having an open mind. Thanks George, wish we could have met.
Hassan is completely right, it’s comforting to know the world has always been wrong
Feelsbadman Let’s Go !
Honestly I kinda find it unnerving, even coming from a generation that's seen a lot of positive change to know things aren't going to get THAT much better lol
@Rezin Hasan Minahj. Are you still in lockdown without a TV or something? Yikes
The world is fine. People are f***ed.
@@Carlos-xz3vi The dude ain't very funny, so never hearing of him isn't too absurd.
Everyone in my family loved Carlin. My grandmother loved him. She didn't care that he swore. He made her laugh out loud until her sides ached. My aunts loved him, my parents, brothers, dad, husband etc etc. We ALL loved George and we all grieved his passing.
Sounds like a cool family.
Mr. George Carlin's comedy was Master Class. You can't learn it... It has to be already inside of you...
He is still my favorite comic. He really made you think about things. He was a philosopher that could make you laugh about serious subjects, but he was also teaching people to think critically about things.
I totally agree with Hasan. As someone who was born in the 90s I regularly watch those old clips of his performances and I am amazed that they are still relevant. It's like the BS in the world is just repeating itself over and over again. This world needs more people like him. People who keep on challenging those with power but who are at the same time soft enough to carry a broad spectrum of people in a playful way.
Great way to put it! Thank you
No one ever will. People are afrid of cancellation. Carlin was the only one with balls to do it!
Bill Hicks also said stuff that today is still relevant also. We lost him way too soon.
George, you are so missed right now
He sure is! No one even close to him these days. No one.
@@russellgentile4719 agreed. Glad we got to experience his knowledge
Right!!!
I think that’s the toughest part of the whole thing. Ever since he died, I’ve just had to listen to a bunch of people try to do his material, and while some do it better than others, he did it first, and he did it best.
George Carlin opened my mind and made me detach from the system! He is a teacher! A leader!
He was the king. Nobody did it better. One of the few times I would hear my dad laugh, really laugh, was when a new Carlin show would drop.
Rip.
Got choked up on the clip with Kevin Smith because my father who has passed& I shared an appreciation of George Carlin. Brilliant artist, and godfather of comedy
Same here. I introduced my dad to George in my dad's last years. My dad would watch VCR tapes of his specials over and over. I'd come visit and if I said "let's watch George" dad would light up. I always appreciated Carlin, but I truly loved him for bringing so much joy to my dad.
Yeah, I felt that one too.
dont care
The godfather of comedy?😂😂😂
Watching his stand up I was always struck not just be his comedy or observations but by how masterful he was with using the English language. He was one of the finest word smiths I've ever listened to.
The man was a philosopher with a great sense of humor.
"I think" he was incred Analytic, idealistic / in Love with "Truth" and Despised Lies, BS & Hypocrisy ..
George is a legend he predicted a lot of things that are actually are happening now
Carlin not only gave us comedy but he also spoke the brutal and inconvenient truths that people have lost their stomachs too. For that I thank him for it. Thank you George Carlin your material was also a survivors manual.✊🤘
They've lost more than that. Brain, Spine, Heart, Stomach and any Muscle.
Or as George would likely say, "Everything on Hannibal Lecter's dinner menu"
@@tsherwoodrzero I'll bring the Fava Beans and the ciante😉
George Carlin was the original cunning linguist. I quote him often. To me he was an inspiring visionary. His material is timeless. His command of the English language was genius. He was a master of the human condition. He will be remembered for demanding that we must always question authority, or else. He made sense out of the nonsense of life. I am all the better for having listened to his wisdom. He made me infinitely smarter than I could have ever been without him. He taught me not only how to think, but also how to live.
The man inspired many, me too.🥲
He was my mother's favorite comedian and mine too. When she died, I listened to his comedy for solace. Never be another like him.
Your a great son/daughter
love this. I don't have many heroes, Carlin is one. He really helped through tough times, to make a bit more sense of the world.
For me, he still is😎!
George Carlin's comedy had a significant influence on my life. He taught me how to be dispassionately realistic and see things as they really are even when that is uncomfortable and/or upsetting.
I feel lucky to have been able to attend one of his shows at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta just a few months before he died.
yes, I say he is one of three people who taught how to think, one of the others is local and the third is groucho marx
His last couple of specials are amazing and maybe his best stuff he ever did which is insane. Stand-up comedians always seem to lose a step like athletes but he just kept getting better.
He was a prophet using comedy to tell us our future. We all laughed and thought it was funny. Now we're living it and it's not so funny
Those last specials drove a hard bargain between truth and comedy: very difficult realities to laugh about, but nonetheless true.
"He just kept getting better"
George Carlin: The Breaking Bad of Comedians
That was well-made. Love George Carlin. A legend.
He is the grandfather I never had. He's been a significant influence on who I am. And I live directly opposite the globe from him too, in SE Asia, this is how impactful he is as a person, philosopher more than a comedian, to me at least.
Growing up my grandpa loved George Carlin and Richard Pryor. I didn’t know we wouldn’t always have comedians of that level forever.
Bill Burr and Dave Chappelle.
@@samshorto5433 They are good comedians, but they are foothills at the base of his mountain...
I used to watch Carlin with my father and it was always clear to me that we were both watching the same show, but seeing two different shows. My father loved the jokes and I loved the critical commentary about the world. the things nobody else ever wanted to talk about. Hearing George made me feel sane, talking to regular people made me feel like I was in the twilight zone.
Necrophilia in whatever I feel everything you wrote. He made me feel sane, at last "Talking to regular people..." still makes me "feel like I IN the twilight zone."
Great observation
Totally understand what your saying.
His writing was so prolific, his volume of work and the number of jokes in an hour was insane.
George Carlin: The Legend. The Comedic Genius. The Conscientious Comedian. The first comedian that really struck a chord in me, gave me a clearer sense of the world, of how it was and how it could be, of how absurd and yet how hilarious it all is... Thank you.
At 10:03 - Hasan totally nails what made Carlin's voice so meaningful to me and I'm sure other people like me. The fact that there was someone else out there thinking these same thoughts restored my sanity and in some warped way my faith in humanity.
At 10:26 - "People sometimes say to you, well do you try to make people think?" "and I would say no, no, that would be the kiss of death" - Quintessential Carlin at it's best! You get that line and you totally get Carlin. He was the only comedian that could make me both laugh and cry simultaneously, RIP George! 😂🤣
I'd agree with your first point but at the same time... we've still not learned!
I couldn't have said it better than you.
This man is one of the best reasons to learn English. His ability to deliver savage critique of society but also keep you laughing off your chair is legendary. Average comedians critique things, good comedians critique the news, people, what they say and the situations they create, this man critiqued concepts of society that most of us lice our lives without noticing. He noticed them, he pondered them to such a degree that not only he understood them for what they were but he was able to go above and critique them in a hilarious way. To me he is the greatest and I hope that in my life I will have the opportunity to experience someone close to him again.
What made Carlin truly special is that he never lost sight of his morals, even as his comedy career grew to be wildly successful. He didn't soften like Colbert, harden like Chappelle, stagnate like Stewart, or pander like Oliver. He came in with a singular mission to talk truth to power, and he stuck with it until the day he died. That's unshakable principle.
This.
If only you were still here, the world needs you right now
George Carlin, Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan. I have watched video clips of all three and they all had pretty good takes on what was wrong with the world and what could happen... in fact, is happening. We need new voices and we need new leaders.
Excellent ppost!!!Those three were visionaries!!!
George carlin was my favorite comedian growing up, my uncle introduced me to his comedy and it opened my mind. When he died it was as if the wind stopped blowing and we were adrift on vast ocean but a few comedians have picked up his banner and continued his fight. George you walked with giants... thank you
Well said.
I was watching his acts as a kid on tv. George Carlin was amazing. I loved his truth and still do to this day. Legend.
I still mourn his passing to this day. One of a kind.
George is one of the funniest, inspirational person, beyond a stand up comic, to me. I still look up his clips when i try to make sense of the world we are in, even now, like abortion. thanks for ur time with us George, RIP
His rant against the pro-life is priceless and and so relevant now.
I was raised on standup, Steve Martin, Redd Foxx, Pryor, Cheech and Chong, Smother Brothers, and of course Carlin. My parents never missed a show when he came to town…and he came frequently because his wife was from my hometown. Lots of memories…and having my thinking shaped by such a funny astute man….maybe I was too young but as I got older…he made TOO much sense. Rest In Peace George. We miss you.
I find it funny how he predicted his own death in the moment like he was the final punchline dude is a comedic genius from beginning to end
Carlin is a legend. All the others just copy Carlin. He never gets old, the others do. Everyone loved Carlin's honesty without agenda.
Honesty without agenda? Wdym?
@@DudesterGX LOL, is it that hard to figure out? What is your age? Educational level?
I saw him on his last tour and it was like being attacked with comedy, but in the best way. He was a machine gun firing jokes at us with no break, no pause. He was the greatest.
As a Brit the highest compliment I can pay to George Carlin is that he ranks alongside our own Billy Connolly as utterly unique comedy talent whose work will live forever.
I love Billy Connolly as I do Carlin. There's no one like him, he's brilliant. from Canada
People will watch him and listen to him thousands of years into the future, if there is a future that is.They will enjoy every moment and respect him.
Rest in Peace George Carlin! You will Never be forgotten!!
George Carlin has always been my favorite comedian because he made me think and grow as a person. Even when I disagreed with him I appreciated how he made me think.
Not sure how George would feel about this but I am pleased that this amazing man and excellent comedian gets to be seen and heard.
Ah.. wonderfully said !
Yeah, I keep getting worried that programs like these will try to "sanitize" George or shoehorn him into a convenient narrative, but then the clips start and...yeah, nobody's whitewashing him anytime soon.
@@babilabub Thank you
@@groofay I agree. Truth is that a real person can never be sanitised.
he knew he made an impact.
A man like Carlin comes along maybe once every hundred years or so.
If we are lucky!
And we got him and Robin Williams! We are so lucky to have had them.
Naw...
Lenny Bruce 🙏 is the ✨ spark that lit the wick... BOOM💥💥💥
Paul Mooney 🙏
Katt Williams
Dave Chappelle
@moralfortitude...2217 Katt Williams is no where near carlin, Bruce, or chappelle. He's not even top 50
I feel privileged to have seen him live, twice. He always seemed to be looking for obscure, promising talents to open his shows for him. I think he just genuinely loved talking shop when it came to comedy. Lewis Black credits George with giving him the encouragement he needed to keep his style going when he was first starting out.
I bet there is a surprising number of comics that still feel a thrill inside to know they opened for George Carlin.
I discovered him less than a month, and he's blowing my mind up
Timeless product. Mostly.
Probably also on purpose.
He truly was a genius. In the true meaning of the word.
"Do you try to make people think"?....
"No, I want to let them know I'm thinking"
Thank you George, you made me think as teenager and question the narrative. Its a gift that I'll never be able to thank you for.
RIP to a legend. He was a comedian and philosopher. Bulls.**t is the glue that holds us together, sadly doesn’t apply. We are truly falling apart.
And y r we falling apart? ....
Because some tried to pull apart that bs and the ununited states couldnt handle it
Yes, it is truly sad how the radicals are trying to lead us to an autocracy. I blame Fox news and a lack of education.
@@Zaniel8 So ripping us apart is the answer? If you no longer believe in our voting system then it is you who have left our great country.
@@bubbercakes528 voting is great, some other counrties even improved on it. And u know what isnt great , electoral college. But that wasnt the bs i was talking about. It was pointing out the entitlement , cruelty , bigotry , selfisness , ignorance and all around blind eye to evil that the NOT greatest counrty in the world still has.
@@Zaniel8 Who is this person that tried to pull apart the bs? I can’t wait to hear this answer.
George was the counter-culture's answer to Walter Cronkite. He was, simply, the most trusted man in comedy, and he lived to enjoy that. I got to meet him at the comedy store in 2002. SO kind, so humble, so genuine.
He was STILL crafting new comedy. After his set, he announced that he wanted to try out stuff he was working on... first, it was stuff he was woodshedding, and then he read his newest stuff from a battered spiral notebook. As a would be improv person, it was revelatory.
I had the privilege of attending two of George's shows! The best ever lived! A true art performer. When I feel down he always brings me back. I'm not crazy it's really happening! Lol
Not a day will go by that this man is not missed to an extreme. So much Love, and reverence.
George Carlin was my intro to stand-up comedy and barely a day goes by when I don’t hear one of his jokes in my head when something ridiculous happens in the world. A true legend!
Same here. I was introduced to him with his bit about germs
Still love George and all my kids so too... miss his comedy
Thank you to everyone who spoke in this video. George Carlin has always been very special to me and I miss him dearly. His 1996 special on HBO was the first comedy special I ever saw. I was 11 years old and I watched every one of his specials after that. He taught me the importance of critical thinking
One of the GREATEST people to have ever lived, even if he wouldn't like to hear that said about himself, he was in my eyes. Taught me so much about the world! ❤️🐐
He understood the human condition and always told the truth, as he saw it.
His comedy is timeless because it is based on something that never changes.
I will forever miss him.
I've watched Carlin 20+ times in my life, he changed my life in the 90s, he's the biggest influence in my life and for me the greatest american to ever live ... When you are Steven Wright's idol .. u know you're big
Several times in my life my decisions were made ,based on what George made me think about in his latest HBO special. HE CHANGED MY LIFE. Thanks George.
For me, Carlin & Pryor are the all time greats in stand-up comedy.
God that scene of them on the variety show in the 60s was painful. Every night those two were fenced in, they must have wanted to eat a bullet. It was like watching a 1960s Disney Channel.
I'll never forget the first video I saw of George. I was a teenager, it was shortly after he died, and someone had shared the clip from Life is Worth Losing about the Owners of the country, that culminates with "It's called the American Dream 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it." It felt like my school/government-sanctioned worldview had been shattered and put back together right in front of me.
The first thing that comes to mind when I think of George is that he was one of the first stand up comedians I watched, so he made it really hard for me to find comedians that I enjoy. He set the bar so high, that afterwards I only accepted the best. But still to this day, no one comes close to the GOAT that is George
The world desperately needs a George Carlin, today more than ever.
There is no doubt that George Carlin is one of the greatest comedian of all time but to me he IS the GOAT. My brain cells grow exponentially everytime I listen to George Carlin.
It seems that HBO got a good team. Bill Burr and Jerry Seinfeld, both were being pretty open about their thoughts and feelings in just that clip. Everyone interviewed is a genius; or at least a career artist / journalist / cultural commentator / comedian. I can feel respect for comedians, even if I wasn't their "biggest fan." It's nice to know they respected Carlin in ways similar to mine.
And that's why Bill Burr feels the need to pander to the boomer generation for cheap laughs. Because he's a genius. Wow.
Stephen Colbert is a talentless corporate shill and Carlin would have been disgusted by his phoniness.
right, except that someone like steven colbert, at least the stephen colbert of today, has no real business speaking of his affinity for carlin.
@@alexwestconsulting glad I'm not the only one thinking why is Colbert there. I doubt Carlin would think much of him.
@@alexwestconsulting whys that
I love everything about George Carlin, because his work is so open and generous, it is INSTANTLY inspirational. He makes me want to do better. He challenges the world to do better. He makes you believe that you CAN do better.... because he keeps saying that he is DONE, he's over it... the whole human race... is a lost cause... the planet's not in danger... WE ARE... we're all gonna go away.
George Carlin was funny and sharp to the very end. He would not want anyone to see him any other way.
Thanks for the laughs and memories, George.
George is the GOAT!
Thanks for highlighting Colbert here so as to remind his fans what a comedian is supposed to look like.
George was a Nobel-prize level comedy heart surgeon. He could operate on the heart of any matter and reveal its inner workings like few others before or after him.
wow, thank you for putting this together. some of my favourite contemporary comedians spoke here, and it's so powerful to hear how he impacted them. was also just watching pryor, and the impact the pryor and carlin had on this art form is insane
‘His ability to do fugue-like explorations of an idea…” - Stephen Colbert saying what he realized about what Carlin did.
Astute observation. Carlin made topical stories out of scattered points of observation and he made enduring messages from those stories.
I don't know whether Colbert was alluding to the musical or the psychiatric definition of _fugue._
I don’t think Colbert learned anything from George Carlin. Just look at what he’s become, a tool to our fascist government imho.
@@JiveDadson works both ways
Y'all did such a great job with this doc! Sad and amazing how relevant it all still is. It's like he never died, still speaking to us.
@@joshuaraulfrancesbedroomte6568 Thank you. Or at the very least he'd politely tell them where to stick it.
He was one of the very very few counterculture figures who became so universally respected that the establishment didn't dare to target him. They did early in his career, but it worked so poorly for them that they just stopped. It all worked for him that way because he was so genuinely himself. Also because the self he was genuinely being was consistently decent, thoughtful, and real.
Watching Kevin tear up about losing George as losing his dad a second time got me right in the feels. I just lost my dad last year so I lost George first but we both enjoyed his comedy and I miss them both!😭
We need you now more than ever George.
I have no idea what his comedy specials would be like. Between Trump, cancel culture, and safe spaces, who knows where he would have landed.
@@PerryinPink4 he would have been canceled. Amerikkka can’t accept any truths about itself.
he was everything to me. He was the greatest standup in history and he changed how I saw the world at age 13
Saw him live 4 different times, once in the front row in a small tent. One of my favorites ever