GEORGE CARLIN, HE DEAD
Jun. 23rd, 2008 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogAw damn. Just saw this.
This is one of those few celebrity deaths that connect with me on some level. I had pretty much all of his comedy albums from the 70s and 80s, and I listened to them so often I had them memorized. I also got to see him live in Nashville around 1990 or so, making him the first stand-up comic I ever paid money to see. He was funny, but he also had something to say, and he was easily one of the biggest influences on my world view. Namely: fuck censorship, we’re all doomed, and that's funny.
Anyway, my favorite fact about Carlin is that his “Filthy Words” routine (which is not the same as his “Seven Words You Can’t Say On Television” routine, but is a follow-up to that one) resulted in the FCC ruling that said legally, you can broadcast “indecent” material between the “safe harbor” hours of 10pm and 6am.
For all the good it did us.
Still, I do have an MP3 of Carlin appearing on Dennis Miller’s cable show around 1999, and his first words: “Finally I get to be on a show where you can say ‘cocksucker’. Isn’t that great?”
Progress!
Respect.
Class clown,
This is dF
This is one of those few celebrity deaths that connect with me on some level. I had pretty much all of his comedy albums from the 70s and 80s, and I listened to them so often I had them memorized. I also got to see him live in Nashville around 1990 or so, making him the first stand-up comic I ever paid money to see. He was funny, but he also had something to say, and he was easily one of the biggest influences on my world view. Namely: fuck censorship, we’re all doomed, and that's funny.
Anyway, my favorite fact about Carlin is that his “Filthy Words” routine (which is not the same as his “Seven Words You Can’t Say On Television” routine, but is a follow-up to that one) resulted in the FCC ruling that said legally, you can broadcast “indecent” material between the “safe harbor” hours of 10pm and 6am.
For all the good it did us.
Still, I do have an MP3 of Carlin appearing on Dennis Miller’s cable show around 1999, and his first words: “Finally I get to be on a show where you can say ‘cocksucker’. Isn’t that great?”
Progress!
Respect.
Class clown,
This is dF
