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Originally Posted by Mutt
god damn 
kinda stuns me - i don't think of him as old, grew up listening to his records that my best friend's older brother had - we'd be like 7 years old and lie on the bed and listen and laugh our asses off to Richard Pryor and George Carlin even if we didn't understand everything. |
"we" were a differnet audience, we were Mc Luhan kids and were interactively involved wi
th our media
we wanted to 'think', we wanted to be shocked and cool with ideas amd images, not offended or fake-victimized
Carlin was a satirical genius and a hard working live performer inh the spirit of Lenny Bruce
damn, comedy stopped making me laugh when the politically correct nazis helped end all that
I mean he was the guy that came up with brand named for birth control pills:
Pregnot
Womb Broom
Inconceivable
(and the one that worked only sometimes:
Baby Maybe!
At least Dirty Franc still makes me laugh...
and sometimes Juicy...