If you're a comic on myspace I bet your top top 5 or top whatever myspace friends are NOT your best friends or people you've know the longest or are the closest to emotionally,
its the people you perceive as being able to advance your career
you want people to see that in your top friends you have people that have been on TV or are big time comedians.
Comedian George Carlin dies at age 71 By KEITH ST. CLAIR, Associated Press Writer 32 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" routine, died of heart failure Sunday. He was 71.
Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham.
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I grew up as a comedy fan. I loved Bill Cosby Records and "Mork and Mindy" and old Abbot and Costello movies on TV. My older brothers and their friends had Steve Martin and Cheech and Chong records (that they weren't supposed to have!)
I thought I knew a lot about comedy and comedians- it was the 80s and comedy was king!
1982- we finally got cable...
They announced a standup special with some guy I had amazingly never heard of before.
George Carlin. Carlin at Carnegie (1982) (TV) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248827/
HOW had I never heard of him before this- I followed the FM radio DJs advice and worshipped the 60s like they told me to! Read up on the history of acid rock and the Beatles and the who and Led Zeppelin and the counter culture and Abbie Hoffman and how Nixon wanted to deport John Lennon and... ...
never came across George Carlins name. Talk about COUNTER culture! They managed to hide him from me until I got cable! He was more dangerous to "The Man" than Hoffman or Jerry Rubin!
The show was Carlin at Carnegie (1982) and I've never been the same since. i was shocked, amazed and thrown for a loop by what I heard. And I laughed my balls off!
Why lie- I haven't loved everything he did- but he was the last person who would want to be blindly idol worshipped. Some of his work was brilliant and some of it (that I heard AFTER I became a comedian) and thought "if he weren't a star this cranky bitching would bomb!"
BUT! Has there EVER been a stronger opening line THAN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC1etHxJRoE
"Have you noticed that most of the women that are against abortion are women you wouldn't wanna fuck in the first place?!?!?"
He was second only to:
"thats my job- thinking up goofy shit.... reminding you of stuff you already thought was funny but forgot to laugh at the first time!"
We should be grateful- we had an extra 30 years AFTER he should have died (after his 1981 heart attack) . God kept him alive to remind us of how powerful individuality and exercising free speech are... even the right the right to say "there is no God!"
Well George- today you got to find out of you were right or not!
weird
sad
accomplished