The world lost one of the giants of standup comedy today as George Carlin passed in Los Angeles. Carlin was a master of the spoken word and had an unmatched ability to entertain and enlighten by using simple words and phrases in ways that were quite thought provoking. Carlin gained fame in the early 1970s for his "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television", all words that were strongly profane. I had the fortune and pleasure of attending a Carlin presentation in person twice during my life: once in Albuquerque at the Kiva Auditorium and once in Denver at the Comedy Works. I was able to also enjoy his provocative, irreverent, and insightful performances and observations many times on television, and I have long owned his 1972 album, Class Clown. Carlin was an accomplished and successful writer of many books that dealt with particular characteristics and hangups in American and Western culture and lifestyles, much as his live performances did. His take on the differences between baseball and football and how he explained it is timeless and pure genius. Carlin's first wife died in 1997; he is survived by his second wife and a daughter.--
A couple of his noteworthy quotes:
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"There's no present; There's only the recent past and immediate future."
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"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that"
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-carlin23-2008jun23,0,4144791.story
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/arts/24carlin.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin
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http://www.georgecarlin.com/
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http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor7.shtml
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/George_Carlin
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http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/331953
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