COMEDIAN OR PHILOSOPHER? A Guide to GEORGE CARLIN
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The source for this video came from the recent documentary on George Carlin by Judd Apatow: George Carlin's American Dream which you can stream here www.hbo.com/george-carlins-am... - Фільми й анімація
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Yesss. Carlin is my favorite
After í watched almost of all your videos and docs about philosophy, god and the world i wonder... What are YOUR thoughts on all of this?
You seem to be a decsent human being capable of comparing and finding your own truth in between - any experiences or anything that is not only repeated wisdom?
Your link doesn't seem to work...
You should do a video for Bill Hicks. He is almost like a more optimistic Carlin.
"... Some cute animal went extinct and hey there's another war.... But before you continue are weeks sponsor Endel is on sale"
Fukkkkkk.... We can't escape it!
inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist”
-George Carlin
Inside every optimist there's an angry conservative
@@andrewgodly5739 not really
@@shnpio not really valuable comment without some elaborating
@@jackiemichel7840 just not really true plenty of optimistic people who are not conservative
@@andrewgodly5739 Please elaborate.
I don't really view Conservatives as optimistic, they're usually unreasonably pessimistic, always looking for a new terror to turn into a boogy man. Furthermore, they don't usually try to change things for the better, instead lean on "naturalism" or hierarchies as an excuse to do nothing. It's an ideaology of cruelty.
"It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." So inspiring, George Carlin and Bill Hicks really helped change my view on life for the better.
A few friends and I once took acid walking the streets of Washington DC. As we got down to the touristy bits it hit in…. Hard. As we got into thicker crowds of tourists we started to ask folks, “Hey, have you seen the American Dream around here? We are looking for it and cant seem to find it.” Haha a merry pranksters moment
@@hollin220 Genius. What year was this?
Remember: Nightmares are Dreams too, y'know.
Good Note!
Bill Hicks is one of my favorite comedian philosophers
Nope, he was the equivalent to the internet edgelord of today. Just liked hearing himself talk and always thought he was the smartest person in the room because a bunch of brainwashed seals clapped at everything he said. As some jackass on Game of Thrones once said "Any man who declares I am the king, is no king"
This jackass was a cynical blowhard, deal with it fanboy
As far as stand up comedy goes, Carlin is the GOAT, in my opinion. There might be comedians who tell funnier jokes and stories, but Carlin was the first one to make me laugh and think. Can only imagine what he’d think of things these days were he still with us. Great video.
Yes he was the best of his generation imo
Him and Dave are the vest
He sucks lol.
One thing people like Norm Macdonald dislike about him, which I totally disagree with, is that he wasn’t all about comedy because it was ‘important’ since it was also social critique. Ironically Norm Macdonald brilliant as he was states Bob Hope was only about comedy which is untrue due to his reactionary beliefs frequently entering into his comedy, but for all its worth people like Norm didn’t recognize it because they agreed with it.
Whether he would or not, he would be entitled to say: "I was right, and I told you so." His last recorded audio works come off somewhat prophetic.
”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.”
-George Carlin
this one isn’t even philosophical it’s just funny
@@LukasPrimeEdition Well, it does make a statement about the dynamics involving Human intellect, technological capabilities and values.
Good Note.
I think of Carlin as being less of a comedian, but more-so as being a philosopher who expresses his ideas through humor.
That's 100% accurate.
most modern day philosophers are comedians, because people won't hear them otherwise.
@@VCV95 That is also 100% accurate.
Good Observation 👍
@@tdesq.2463 Patton Oswalt is another great philosopher. Even your youtube philosophers tend to use lots of humor ii appropriate. Shit, I would argue wven John Oliver and John Stewart at least carry on the tradition of challenging your mind and encouraging at minimum thinking about how your actions affect others, and how large interests affect everyone.
@@VCV95 "... how (y)our actions affect others ..."
You really nailed it with that statement. HUGE!!! 👍👍👍
"Once the high priest and the traders took over, we were lost as a species."
- George Carlin
Great quote. Thank u
It takes a truly spectacular mind to satirise humanity's trajectory but still be painfully accurate. Having the fortune of finding Carlin in my youth made for an easy introduction to the absolute chaos of society and the direction its headed. I don't think I have ever laughed out loud at any of his jokes but I would take them over any other piece of entertainment. He truly stands out in the entertainment industry.
I also discovered Carlin early and the questions I asked myself after his performances dictated my personality to this day. He was a true mover and shaker of the average person's worldview.
BRO I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR A VIDEO LIKE THIS, I’M SO GLAD SOME PEOPLE STILL TALK ABOUT GEORGE
Calm down, Pietro. You don't need to yell.
I like that you focused heavily on “Life Is Worth Losing”. That special is the entire reason I became a comedian. I think it’s the single best hour ever recorded.
🙌 FACTS
His monologue on suicide from that special continues to stick with me and as stupid as it sounds it probably saved my life
Are you funny?
This is like the 5th time you've made a video about a topic/person I had a conversation about yesterday.
Thank you for making this. George Carlin has always been my favorite comedian. "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."
I stopped legit everything to watch this. I love Carlin and I love these vids so this is a blessing on a boring Thursday afternoon
Everybody wants a bit of George Carlin social satire, most of it is still so relevant that people might think he's done it today.
The irony of that 💀🥲
I think he’s more relevant now than ever.
will we ever get A Guide to Sisyphus55? i think a look at your own philosophy would be quite interesting
Comedians like George Carlin and such have proved that the comedy medium as a whole has a potential to be something more than just funny jokes, it's easily digestible nature makes it perfect to make people ponder about subject that are dull and heavy in nature
Hey I could see Diogenes getting isekai'd to present day and be a comedian.
wut is that word?
@@CrashPreinsertion I am sorry for my weeb vernacular, isekai can loosely mean "getting spirited away".
I think his rant about words and the rant about the planet being fine are the two of the best rants ever. They both should be watched by everyone, they should be showing them in schools and before every political debate!
At 8:00 when he talked about the ice cream variety but lack in choice of president, I stopped this video and really had a moment. A moment of immense realization, like, how did we allow ourselves to be fooled like this? Maybe the scariest but most thought provoking minute of my life.
I love the animation in all your videos it adds so much to the tone
I’m very happy that you made this, for the first time I think I’m both fine and dandy
Zoinks bro that is a spicy title and pfp, I too believe I am both fine and dandy for the moment
I was too for about an hour. BUT NO ONE ASKED HOW I WAS!
Carlin put into words everything I realized I felt growing up. It felt validating discovering his stand up.
Imagine watching a set list with George Carlin and slavoy zizek!
Although this is excellent, I feel you may have mischaracterized Carlin somewhat in his class reductionism. He was very much a feminist, evident in his "Anti-abortion is in reality anti-women" bit, which he thereafter linked into a critique of child subordination and the military-industrial state. His comedy may have appealed "across poltical lines" as you say, but he was principled in where he stood. He never seemed to assert a class reductionist line, and claiming he did paints a reactionary image of Carlin that didn't exist.
That being said, I love Carlin, and this was another amazing video!
Hurmm... I think Carlin thought that being rich & powerful is an end unto itself which generated the motivation to employ the "-ism"s: racism, sexism, sectarianism, etc. and that people are hopelessly dumb about this mechanism & fall for it every time.
I think it's possible Carlin would agree with Timothy Snyder's notion of Sadopopulism.
“Pro-life” people aren’t pro-life, they’re anti-sex.
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love your page brother your videos are beautifuly crafted and tend to leave me with this comforting warm feeling of being part of the human experience
Really great video. Carlin does make you think, in this video it was the quote about knowing people one to one but then the one to one dynamic changing
I have a picture of George Carlin at my desk at work to remind myself to question everything, and that I want to inspire people to do the same. Thanks for making this video!
Carlin was my first foray into comedy, politics and everything that makes u think. Carlin was, is and will be one of the greatest comics on this planet
This is a great and unique idea for a video, great job!
for all intents and purposes George was and will always be my greatest influence. glad i found his stuff when i was 14.
Great video as always! Thank you
Yo ive been watching sisyphus55 for a couple years so glad you made a video abour george carlin i love his work
just amazing work! thank you!
I have an hour long pedal home and boy am I glad you uploaded this, I have always loved George Carlin. Hilarious and quite the opinions 🤣
Great video, love the mention of montreal’s symphony of construction!
You and George Carlin won a subscriber. Well Done. 🏆 *internet points* 🏆
The smile on my face as soon as I read “George Carlin” was immaculate. Great video essay. Love the references to George’s comedy works.
As you mentioned, many people on Twitter keep bringing Carlin back to prove their own bias correct, usually along the lines of “If he were alive today he would’ve totally owned those (insert opposing political group here)!” That’s the exact wrong way to remember Carlin. His positions on specific issues were never the point.
Instead, I would like to ask: if Carlin were still with us through all of the political and social upheaval of the past decade and a half, how would he approach it? Would he dive even deeper into his nihilism, now that nihilism is the norm, or would he continue to stand out and adopt a more optimistic or even hopeful attitude?
Great stuff man, as usual
Crying happy tears! Yesss this guy was golden
Greatest comedian of all time imo
This video just did what it talked about. It slowly pulled me into the dark void, and then to know more, it sold me a "t-shirt" in the form of an app. I need time to think about this.
I’m really glad i found this channel
I ❤ that you made a video on Carlin. Life is Worth Losing should be required viewing.
I WAS WATCHING GEORGE CARLIN LAST NIGHT, WHAT A TIME FOR THIS VIDEO TO COME OUT
Simple he was both. Was waiting for this one thanks
Very interesting video, I think i can understand his view of people pretty well
I always enjoyed watching George Carlin and listening to to what he had to say and I agree with everything he said. He was a true philosopher and I have had similar realizations in my own life as he did.
Comedy at its best is a scalpel. Used to expose an alternative view of the same thing. That's its skill, but the purpose of the surgery is to reveal what is below the multiple layers of callous, the wobbly but comfortable fat, the tattoos and the foundational makeup. Carlin got it right, he was angry, deeply so, with a society that was besotted with gunslingers and mobsters grew out of the "wretched refuse of your teeming shores." Humanity's last chance to break new ground with a new society that was to become a beacon to the entire planet. Instead the punks and the insecure turned into a messy counter-argument. They couldn't do Democracy. They couldn't understand Capitalism. They couldn't protect Science. There's nothing left. Those three pillars are all we had.
Just FYI I haven't watched the video yet but I went through a netflix standup kick in 2013 or 2014. I watched George Carlin Life is worth losing because I was not in a good place in life. That standup changed me forever. I immeidately watched every standup I could find of Carlin then moved onto Hicks.
Amazing video
The two people I've always regarded as the best standup comedians of all time were Carlin and Bernie Mac, although the former by far was the more philosophical of the two, and the themes and concepts of his comedy are so deep and so interesting that sometimes it's hard to even regard him as a comedian.
AMAZING VIDEO SISYPHUS!! I just found about him just last week and its been a blast since. So glad you made a video elaborating on his past and how his point of view was carved out :)
didn't know you live in Montreal, I too am here. cheers
"Yooo is that virtue signaller IV" I feel personally attacked and would like a written/video apology
You’re entire channel and this vid in particular is just fucking gold
I didn't know you lived in Montreal! So cool, I'm from the south shore
He wasn't telling us jokes. He was telling us the harsh truth in a way that would make us laugh so we wouldn't cry.
this is such a fucking good video thank you so much
Always fantastic work, love the style and stance you have for your videos. Gonna go listen to some Carlin now lol
Thanks!
Sad to think about, and maybe even Carlin realized this himself, that a lot of the things he tried to say wouldn't really be acted upon, like that Black Mirror episode. Like what he said is all true, but people today more often than not would use that for intellectual masturbation rather than a fire in their ass to actually help them get moving.
So happy you did a video on Carlin, a guy I get a lot of my ideas from. Just wanted to say I really like the music you use and listen to Housecat daily now because I like your content so much.
George, to me, was always more than just a comedian or just a public philosopher. He was/is my role model, a human specimen with the prescription for the correct way to live your life morally as a human being. Above all the other titles he rightly possessed, the label that best describes George and how he laid his claim to fame in the dirty cockels of my heart-he was the first person I ever heard who wasn't, at least to some extent, trying to sell me on some bullshit. He was the first human I completely trusted to give me the straight dope truth, no matter how uncomfortable that truth may be to some, instead of the candy-coated, rose color spectacled fantasies of wishful thinking told to me by all the other humans with whom I had ever engaged in a conversation. The night I first watched You Are All Diseased, age 13, was the single most important formative experience I've had in my life. In my head, as the world's only atheist as far as I knew and as I formally suspected, it was Me and My Truths vs. the Entire World's Population and Their Well Meaning Lies. He was the first person I knew of who was on my side in the battle for my "soul." The first person I knew of to see the world as clearly as I thought that I saw it and to talk about that skepticism openly with no regard for the trivial concerns of others and no shame for having spoken the truth as he saw it. The first person I knew of willing to go to wherever his mind and the doubt he felt there took him, no regrets and no holds barred. Anything Ive done/will do/have been/will become is a fruit of the seeds he planted and I let germinate in my mind. I love Mr. Carlin more than I love my parents, and I have the best, most loving parents you could possibly imagine-they hold the second and third positions on the list of the things that I love most from my life. Georgie is top dawg though. My folks taught me how to eat, how to love, how to dig a hole, how to spell "Illinois" and how to cry, amongst many other life lessons. Carlin taught me how to believe in myself, how to think for myself, and how to live for myself... Goddamn it, thanks as always George. You were the antidote to the snake bite juice venom that coarsed through the veins of my life before I eventually heard your public cries of "What the fuck?!“ on topics of human morality and the world at large and the jesus and everything else that you pontificated upon and I took the doubt that I had always felt and let it wash over me like cleansing sunlight sent straight from Joe Pesci himself.
Lots of love and good luck out there everybody.
One of the best ways to get across ideas like these is via comedy/absurdity, because we dont put up any walls when we engage with comedy, so we are more vulnerable to the affects of the message
He was my favorite comedians especially during the lockdown.
Such a captivating comedian
George was always my favorite
thanks sisyphus
Grateful for Carlin’s comedy, especially during my formative years. I found a kindred soul in Carlin, in the distrust and detachment to monotony, that comes with everyday life. Thanks for this
Man this videos intro is so hard man. Facts
Thank god you are talking about him
Thank you
Hey Sisyphus can you make a video on Ludwig Wittgenstein. He’s a pretty cool guy and his philosophy on language is pretty cool.
Thank you for these videos in optimistic nihilism and embracing the absurd
@Sisyphus55 can you do a video on the late 20th century cartoon “Duckman”
I swear, just from the title alone I already knew it was about George Carling. A legend!
Your very good at making videos
"If you scratch a cynic, you'll find a disappointed idealist"
F*ck, Dan... You've described me too a T...
Nice video
I've written about comedians and stand-up comics being our culture's current philosophers in the recently released "Dave Chappelle and Philosophy."
The hilarious part is that the past few years, art has been imitating life by him turning into a giant, rich boomer complaining about how people are being mean to him.
@@dahat1992 He's not a boomer.
@@JohnVKaravitis Tell that to his latest Netflix special.
@@JohnVKaravitis he is
Listening to you speak. Along with this lovely tune draped across the surface of your intro. Brings me back to a feeling i once had. A feeling of a story i heard. A game i had played and loved.
Ace Combat: Shattered Skies
Quite a magnificent story.
Youve touched me in my heart and mind in mere minutes.
I will see you again.
A man who spoke the truth
Somebody reply my comment so I get a notification when I wake up, I always check my yt notifications. It's 7am here and I'm damn sleepy. Want to watch and listen to this fully awake. GC is a personal hero.
I’m here for you son
@@Norms_Ghost Thanks my guy. Have a great day.
As for a better climate comedian, there is a is Rollie Williams from Climate Town who makes sketches where you learn a lot but don't feel like shit afterwards
the funniest man to ever live.
you make good videos
I still love your work
However I don’t check in as much mostly because I find the background music distracting
I realize this is MY problem
I also realize this is a sort of trademark of yours, however have you ever considered releasing them with just your narration?
Whatever happens keep it up
If you like George Carlin, check out Bill Hicks. You won't regret it. His magnum opus performance is entitled Relentless.
The best modern day philosophers are comedians, because people won't hear them otherwise.
You should do a video on dave Chappelle, my man is in that tribal storyteller phase of his life.
I miss this man so much. Watching him as a little kid when he was in his prime had a big impact on my worldview. I wouldn't be the same person I am today without this man's art.
The Man was a True Genius and my personal Hero.
Great Presentation!
Thank You!
~TD, Boston
If you enjoyed this I can strongly recommend the two part HBO/Hulu Documentary.
Do a video on Robin Williams!
You should do a video on norm Macdonald
Growing up my mom watched a lot of Carlin and even though i was like 5 or 6 i didn't realize how much of him i had absorbed. i didnt realize this until today but he really shaped me as a person good and bad. im a secret optimist hidden underneath a nihilist
I saw him 2 months before he died, and it was not pretty. For the last half of the show, I didn't see a comedian, I saw a bitter old man being confronted with his mortality; and even as the teenager I was then, I thought to myself "I hope I can go out with a little more grace." I didn't leave the theater with a smile on my face, and the logical conclusion of his philosophy clearly fails the "how's that working out for you" test; but I'll always remember him fondly for his earlier work, and I'll never forget him because people keep asking me if I'm related to him.
EDIT: This joke (more of a comment, really) would work better if I were signed into the account where you could see my last name, but I'll just let this one slide.
insane in the membrane