Belated Happy Birthday, George Carlin
May. 14th, 2007 03:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomDude turned seventy on Saturday. Maybe it was just because I didn't hear Pryor until later, but there was no stand-up philosopher more influential on my thinking.
What are your favorite Carlin bits, lines, roles? I could invoke all of the classics, but I've also got a special fondness for the gentler stuff he did on Take-Offs and Put-Ons, such as his commercial parodies:
What are your favorite Carlin bits, lines, roles? I could invoke all of the classics, but I've also got a special fondness for the gentler stuff he did on Take-Offs and Put-Ons, such as his commercial parodies:
"All right, Mrs. Wilson, can you tell me if one of these piles of laundry is whiter than the other?"
"Oh, no. Yeah. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. Definitely no-yeah. One of the piles is definitely whiter than the other one."
"... Brilliant deduction, Mrs. Wilson. Now, can you tell me which pile is the whiter of the two?"
"The blue pile."
[sotto voce] "No, dummy, it's not the blue pile."
"Oh, well, then it's definitely the white pile. When is this commercial gonna be on television?"
"... Not for a long time, Mrs. Wilson."
