George Carlin is worth far more than seven words, yet it is this routine that he will be most remembered. His comedy from the 1960s is a hoot compared to what he became. Much like Pryor, he revolutionized comedy.
As an adolescent boy during the 1970s, Carlin was someone we identified with. I had the pleasure of seeing him while in college. I think we sat in the first or second row.
Carlin was all about language. As a member of a family that would pull out a dictionary in the middle of dinner to resolve an argument of semantics, Carlin was royalty to me. Always was. Always will be.
Tonight I realized that I am indeed a redneck. I never thought I was. Jeff Foxworthy isn’t really my thing, but I watched The Blue Collar Tour Rides Again and was in stitches for two hours. The last bit when all four comics (Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, Ron White, and the aforementioned Foxworthy) come out on stage was a hoot. The following is that bit. Enjoy!
A few years ago one of Gert’s brothers introduced us to Lewis Black. I was so not impressed, I slept through the performance. Today I noticed there was a Lewis Black video on Comedy Central and stopped to watch a little of it. I was equally not impressed.
I gather Comedy Central is sponsoring Black’s tour as there was a commercial that kept running for his Let Them Eat Cake tour. I am surprised I cannot find the clip, but the commercial had Black commenting that he would receive a $600 rebate from the federal government. Then he held up a cupcake and stated something along the lines of, “With that money I can afford 300 of these.”
Huh? How much is a cupcake these days? Black seems to paying $2 per cupcake. I suppose when one is a big shot making lots of money he can afford such luxuries. The rest of us will have to suffer with the the ol’ Pillsbury box.
