George Carlin Gone but Never Forgotten

by NDK Creative Artist

A favorite American stand-up comic, the irreverent George Carlin, who tells it like it is, and not how we think it is, one of the few honest ones has reached the end of an incredible career. I wrote about him during the Hollywood Writer’s strike and I recently introduced one of our contributors to him and then spent about a week playing his shows while I worked as if I was in some sort of prescient state, foreshadowing the man’s heart giving that last beat of a life worth living and worth celebrating. So this is my eulogy to a man I respect, and hopefully in a way he would applaud.

Carlin’s comedy for me is remarkable because he accomplishes the feat of making us laugh at the stupidity of our culture and civilization, while telling us the truth that opens the intellect to insight and that makes him a social philosopher.

If you haven’t listened to George yet, do take the time to check Google Video and YouTube but be warned the language is rough, strong, and outrageous, but not more outrageous than what this nutcase sillivization we live in is. I’m looking forward to seeing and hearing his last HBO show.

The comments posted here and no doubt elsewhere on the internet say much of the impact he has had and how well loved this funny fucker is for poking us where we need it most.

George Carlin has done much to free our minds of cultural programming, and open us up to the way things really work through the course of his illustrious career, and I for one will always be grateful for the laughs, the insights and the lulz. Thanks for telling us the world is fucked and making us see it how it is, George, but more importantly, and most of all, thanks for being an example of what it means to be a free man, freely expressing and articulating freedom. That is one of the greatest things to do; be an example of a free man. Truly, rudely, inspiring!

“It’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” - George Carlin

Classic lines to wake us up and keep our wits about us.

In 2001 he told us where he’d “…stay Just outside of the orc cloud, just outside of the solar system aiming comets at these people and I’ll watch it all like the circus it is…when you’re born and you get a ticket to the freak show, I say ‘Enjoy the show, don’t take it seriously’.” And in life he demonstrated what he thought of death and dying.

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