Wow, I had no idea that he was a narrator for "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends" until now.
George Carlin NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
6 66 the number of the beast!
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It's a matter of taste.
I love that clip with all my heart. I love the fact that he lost his shit with that heckler. Just like I love the fact that Ryan Adams will get off stage and personally remove hecklers from his shows, and the fact that Andy Kaufman got himself slapped on Letterman. I feel like that pretty much every time I have to listen to most people talk for an extended period of time. I want to scream and lose my shit. I want to annoy them to the point where they want to slap me. Unfortunately, I find myself disappointingly well-mannered and reserved, so, in that clip of Hicks, and through these comedians, I live vicariously.
I adore Bill Hicks, and I agree with him a lot. Whether or not those opinions are "obvious" or "overplayed" is not, and never has been, the point to me. If it's true, it's true, no matter how many times it gets said.
As for Lenny Bruce, in my eyes he is untouchable. His autobiography is one of the best things I have ever read, and his records get me through many a horrible night.
I never found George Carlin to be funny, but I didn't hate him, and I was sorry to hear that he had passed away.
Sorry ghost of george carlin
I'm not very familiar with an of these comics, I just know they aren't to my tastes. I don't like sermonizing, and I feel that many of these ranting comedians hide their inability to construct good jokes behind the Truth. That Bill Hicks clip was endearing for its misanthropic nostalgia trip to a time when hating humanity was entertaining. I have to say I dislike him more for having the same name as a teacher I disliked in High school.
Carlin was not funny, just
Carlin was not funny, just opinionated. All he ever did was try to support degenerates while putting down any perspective that actually had some thought to it. Neither is Chris Rock. He has to be the most prejudiced comic out there. Yeah, I know, his grandparents were treated rough, but find one race through all history that wasn't on the receiving end at some point.
Dipshits...
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If only my days could be filled with a combination of Chris Rock yelling, Ice Cube frowning, Chuck D dropping rhymes, Jesse Jackson getting mad on a hot mic, Spike Lee insulting Clint Eastwood, and Reverend Wright proselytizing. And, in between, I could read Manning Marable books.
I love Chris Rock.
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I would totally vote for Obama if he played up the whole too black too strong aspect. Fo'shizz, brother is africa dark!
But then I would have only voted for Kerry had he run on the platform - I KILLED GOOKS FOR AMERIKKKA AND WILL DO IT AGAIN!
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I still think Bill Hicks' misanthropic comedy is cathartic and funny. He doesn't sermonize, or maybe his sermons are so similar to my mean spirited inner dialogue that it doesn't feel like a sermon. He did write a lot about drugs, but his pieces were never the simplistic "the war on drugs is hypocritical" bullshit. More like a comparison of 2 equally flawed perceptions of reality, with a self aware acceptance that his opinion was biased towards one of those perceptions.
Personally, I think his less political observational stuff is funnier, but his drugs stuff was good too:
The sermonizing "unfunny comedy for stupid people to feel smug and intelligent" is Lewis Black:
HAHAHAHA! Michael Jackson is crazy! Bush is evil! How topical!
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