George Carlin Dies
Jul. 18th, 2008 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomLast month, of course, at the age of 71. Carlin was definitely one of my heroes and major influences, at the Cosby/Henson/Blanc level. Smart as hell, witty, angry, passionate, and above all so fucking funny you couldn't breathe sometimes listening to his many, many classic routines.
I won't even bother listing my favorites; there are far too many. By all means, list or link to yours. But there is one joke of his which never fails to break me up, part of his newscaster bit for Wonderful WINO (The Big Sound In The Bi-i-ig Town!), and I'm likely misremembering the correct road here, but it went like this: "The San Bernadino Freeway was the scene of a freak accident today as six freaks in a camper crashed into three freaks in a van...."
I won't even bother listing my favorites; there are far too many. By all means, list or link to yours. But there is one joke of his which never fails to break me up, part of his newscaster bit for Wonderful WINO (The Big Sound In The Bi-i-ig Town!), and I'm likely misremembering the correct road here, but it went like this: "The San Bernadino Freeway was the scene of a freak accident today as six freaks in a camper crashed into three freaks in a van...."
