British Couple Reacts to George Carlin - Death Penalty

British Couple Reacts to George Carlin - Death Penalty
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[@auerstadt06]

George Carlin is never completely serious, and never completely joking.

[@tweter2]

One of the great joys of his political commentary 😂

[@BuckarooBoya]

Schrödingers george

[@AcornSmokes420]

100% truth he tells ❤

[@TheLwaller09]

George rarely ever went JUST for funny. A lot of his best bits you're not going to laugh like crazy through. They're designed to make you chuckle at how lighthearted he talks about the most serious issues, but if you take out the small amount of humor, the point is what he's actually getting at.

[@arrobrewer2730]

100% as a kid dad and would watch. Dad " yep thats about right"

[@therickdarts180]

i laugh hard at this stuff... no one cares about light heartedness. he was funny and people who hated it then were snowflakes, just like the they them crowed now. he would make millions today making fun of the stupid trans culture that bullies non trans.

[@lauralackner6856]

The older I get the more Carlin makes perfect sense to me.

[@evannelson4203]

He makes less and less sense to younger generations. Not a fan.

[@Pahdopony]

Why is the younger generation so sensitive about everything? This is a comedy routine not reality. I don’t think they are intelligent enough to understand that George Carlin is a comedy genius. He points out the irrational, ludicrousness and ridiculousness in human behavior, society and religion to make the audience consider and envisage the absurdity of it all. I can’t imagine going through life without having an open mind, let alone being so high strung and delicate. smh…

[@MsKeylas]

@@evannelson4203 actually it is opposite. At times go through his messages become more and more poignant and on point. For example skit about euphemism becomes more and more true. because people become more and more of a fucking oversensitive pussies

[@ClayLoomis1958]

Oh, that timing!!!! 4:50 She holds up a Burger King cup, and Carlin is talking about horrid sponsors. I'm sure it's a coincidence, but still funny as hell.

[@MannyBrum]

"Tonight's immolation is brought to you by Burger King, home of the flame-broiled Whopper."

[@narsil100]

The appeal of late-career Carlin is 50/50 humor and biting truth. I find him soothing, but I couldn't tell you why 😄

[@rainbowwigglecactus6605]

Simple. Gives you hope that people can have honest observations about how the world really works

[@michaelmachupa3854]

I had no idea who George Carlin was because he was before my time when he started. Then I watched movies liked dogma and Jay and silent Bob. I would would him in these little roles and hear other comedians talk about him as one of their influences.

[@83gemm]

Because the truth part makes you realize things really are as effed up as they seem and you’re NOT crazy. And the humor part keeps you grounded enough to understand it doesn’t really matter.

[@TheHikercrone]

George used irreverence to make points with just a sprinkling of humor. He's sarcastically outing the cruelty we've doused on each other through the ages (humans were barbaric at times). Thanks for sharing this!

[@jezebeljones659]

The wolverine/brown gravy idea is aces!

[@SGlitz]

Favorite Carlin line: a Cynic is a idealist disappointed

[@PersonManBoy]

@Gripen Drakon agreed

[@shawnmiller4781]

George also played Rufus in the “Bill and Ted” movies. You might want to add those to your viewing list on the review channel

[@ex89thmpbdecagekicker22]

Carlin a true legend of intellectual comedy

[@Meydoosa]

George wasn’t a comedian. He was a great philosopher who was able to deliver his messages with great comedic timing. Almost everything he said back then is still relevant today.

[@MsKeylas]

a lot of things are sadly became much more relevant and worse

[@natemalnaa1]

One quote I heard is "the difference between the drug cartels and the government is the cartels make a profit" lol

[@my2angels1]

He has always just told it like it is in jokes. He's a legend and nothing has changed since this skit.

[@zimjun7]

These felons are so bad!!!! I can get it! This guy's wife is sensitive. I understand.. This world is so corrupt. Justice is soon to be served.

[@ginny5764]

@@zimjun7 I sure hope so

[@ricker1448]

It’s not always just a joke with George Carlin what a legend he was

[@sherrybarnes4486]

George Carlin was awesome. I was fortunate enough to see him live in Kansas City once it was the best show ever

[@bahhab9361]

when i first saw him on HBO as a child......waay to old now.... my mother let me watch it and i laughed so hard i threw up in the living room. got a nice ass whooping lol you youngins crack me up, keep it up!

[@jimjackson5544]

George Carlin was a very funny man. His "7 Words you cant say on TV" is what snared me back in the 80's.

[@tweter2]

Love that you reacted to this! It's a bit old, but it perfectly captures the political debates in America at that time.

[@frederickknapp5340]

When I was younger I watched Geoge for the language, now I understand what he is talking about and weirdly agree with a lot.

[@tbd-5160]

George Carlin is a national treasure. He led the way for so many comedians just by how he didn't care. But he was more about testing free speech than being edgy.

[@rhiahlMT]

George was the best. 😂😂

[@sissylee5399]

If you look at history he’s making “fun “ at the fact that a lot of that is true

[@trumphatesyou]

Millie looked horrified! So do more Carlin! "Dumb Americans" is one of my personal favorites because of the second half.

[@prellen]

Love George Carlin.❤️🙏😇😁🇸🇪🍿📽️

[@kennethswartz8252]

Always wild he narrated the Thomas The Tank Engine program for kids.

[@LarryHatch]

You guys fell in one of five numbered holes....you had no idea..bless you're lovin' Uk hearts

[@dwightguthrie8757]

You gotta love the way George thinks. Just to let you know I got your Valentine. It came back to me with it saying "Insufficient Address'" unable to forward. I put on the address you have listed.

[@jackp8583]

The Mrs. mortification is priceless! 👍

[@user-gj7oq1el7w]

I've seen him on tv and in person he was always so funny.

[@johnalden5821]

Well, folks, this is an excellent example of classic satire. GTS "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift. Carlin knew his craft and all the history that went into it.

[@rhondag8128]

Profoundly sarcastic or Sarcastically profound. He was way before his time.

[@jimmyraye5693]

George Carlin helped inspire one of my favorite comedians "Bill Hicks" who also was very popular in the UK🙂

[@freebirdicc]

George Carlin is hillarious , just remember it's comedy.

[@ws2664]

I loved this guy, I wish he was still around.

[@jamescurfman3284]

Same. But he would not want to still be around. How old would he be now? He was having real physical problems when he passed, poor guy. I really hope he is at peace, he deserves it.

[@gordieparenteau6555]

One of his greatest bits.

[@BourdeoixEterno]

Sick right now, and you guys are extremely comforting for me, love y’all!

[@corinnepmorrison1854]

Feel better. 👍🏻

[@happyfairyjerry]

People who don't get his humor might never get it, but. he was a genius. So many of his stand ups are relevant for today

[@mpetersen428]

I had somehow missed this Carlin performance, which amazes me. Hilarious! Even more so while watching the Beesleys' reactions, especially her growing disbelief. They were wrong though; in the end it wasn't comedy, it was THE MESSAGE delivered on a flaming fire of often bitter but always in-your-face sarcastic comedy. I miss George. (And I like the Beesleys a lot. I don't think they quite understand how George is mocking American sports 'culture' (not to mention capitaism and religion) here, though.)

[@martyklestadt6766]

I seem to recall this bit as part of a comedy album--"What The Hell Am I Doing In New Jersey?" or something like that. I'd forgotten most of the bit, but I remembered the part about the severed heads going into one of five holes.

[@tweter2]

Love the contrast between you two watching this 🤣

[@jf8986]

George Carlin died a little while back. Nothing new will come out, unfortunately.

[@MannyBrum]

He didn't die, he "passed away."

[@robertyoung2279]

He was a MAD man !

[@louisskulnik7390]

Happy Mardi Gras from Bourbon Street, New Orleans!

[@BacktheBlue60]

All you can do is shake your head and laugh 😃

[@sallyintucson]

Watch the one on the Ten Commandments. Just to let you know, George Carlin was raised Roman Catholic so he knows what he’s talking about.

[@markhine3232]

George always brought the exaggeration of any subject to new levels. Its funny because its not supposed to be funny.very early in his career he did some funny outrageous stuff as a character called the HIPPIE DIPPIE WEATHER MAN. You should check this out. He was hilarious. Millie looked like she was either afraid to laugh, or she was gonna be sick.

[@retired4365]

Someone needs to cartoon that bit. 😂

[@jimbobcramden]

im dying just watching this🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@busterandloulou]

George Carlin along with his contemporaries had a profound impact on comedy. If you enjoyed George, you would probably love Lenny Bruce. Bruce was the ground breaking comedian that made it possible for George Carlin and others to do cutting edge and brutality honest comedy.🎉

[@deborahabbenante8821]

This felt like a manic Carlin bit, but incisive and brilliant as usual.

[@warrenspengler2554]

George Carlin was often offensive, but he was making a larger point about society.

[@marigeobrien]

I can see Millie is not enjoying George Carlin's particular form of sarcasm. He was actually very anti-death penalty and really, REALLY hated hypocrisy. Thus, he was always controversial. And, Wow... remember that this in 1996. Mostly we see how right he was, at least about how cut throat corporations are and many forms of religion, for that matter. If you want to understand how the drug world works, watch Breaking Bad. That will show you all levels. As for George... George, George, George. I grew up watching him at a time when activists of all kinds peopled the world. He was considered a comic-activist and all of his comedy is heavily laced with very liberal activist rhetoric, some of which changed the world. He IS a legend. Oh, and by the way, he was also in the movie Dogma, a very funny American movie that pokes fun at religion and especially the Catholic church. Alan Rickman is also in it, as well as many other stars.

[@MrTech226]

James Let her know that George Carlin was known as Philosopher Comedian.

[@punkem733]

Sorry but at the end of the day it's nOT JUST a joke. He uses comedy to connect with others and then hits them with the truth. This is the GOAT of all comedians

[@CPny65]

If you haven't seen his idea for Square states. It's part of this same performance. Hilarious

[@craigrik2699]

We use to go to the Public executions in Singapore, hanging. We were New Zealand soldiers based in Singapore (working in Malaysia) because of ANZUK. They were early morning events, that would be us after a night of drinking down Boogus Street, great way to end a night of boozing. They had to stop the Public viewing due to bad behaviour, by us

[@jamesdewey3259]

GC is to have fun and learn a mortal lesson. Sit beack and enjoy.

[@shawnmiller4781]

If you haven’t already you need to review Carlin’s famous “Seven Words you can’t say on Television” bit from the 1970’s. It resulted in a US Supreme Court case. Baseball and Football is a bit cleaner and may be another one to watch.

[@jamescurfman3284]

I really liked the one titled 'Professional Comedian'. That was GREAT, the way he introduced it. He got to do that one for his first act at Carnegie Hall! :)

[@JEFFwasHERE...]

George Carlin - The Incomplete List of Impolite Words

[@dufey1969]

George Carlin was the best

[@higginsfamilyforever8250]

FYI. George Carlin voiced the Narrator on the children's cartoon Thomas and Friends.

[@nschuehly]

He is exposing death penalty for what it is. Very clever bit.

[@andrewgalindo6959]

I miss George Carlin. I grew up listening to him Cheech and Chong and Richard Pryor.

[@AntiSCO]

I have always insisted that people who are going to do a dive into Carlin's work *really* need to sit through his autobiography "Last Words". It gives you a hard (sometimes uneasy) look at the intensity going on inside of him, and his evolving mindset behind his material over the years. By the time he recorded this particular set, he was already deep into his sledgehammer to meet a sledgehammer mentality where religious zealots and conservatives were the topic - meaning being gentle or clever simply did not suffice, and he explained that seeing people like John Lennon, Medgar Evers, and Robert Kennedy being assassinated while Reagan and Co. take sledgehammers to progress irreversibly altered his whole outlook.

[@bloodmooncomix457]

Welcome to the twisted comedy of America, Britain! 🖐️😄 Out here we call it "group therapy!" 👊😒😤🙄😣🇺🇲

[@billtaylor3382]

He was great!

[@traci123171]

He is speaking the truth and exercising his freedom of speech through comedy. Carlin was one intelligent and truthful man

[@oliviacruz6557]

Love George Carlin

[@Tam58851520]

Carlin was an amazing comic.

[@julianhinojosa9695]

It's alright, Millie, not all jokes are funny. You don't have to laugh. I make jokes all the time and no one laughs.😂

[@jajohnson7809]

He died in 2008. Imagine what he'd have to say about ongoings in the world these last few years.

[@dalebrennan7615]

He is class sadly missed Dublin ireland 😅

[@LaurieRein]

I’m laughing like crazy - still miss him - so out there! The Hippy Dippy Weatherman became so funny!😂

[@shawnyoung8752]

Tonight's forecast. Dark!!

[@LaurieRein]

@@shawnyoung8752 lol!

[@shawnyoung8752]

@@LaurieRein Becoming light in the morning. He also had his Sportscaster bit. Scores from Major leagues tonight. 5-3, 6-2 4-1 7-5 and a partial score Yankees 4. That's what probably started or made him do his Football Baseball skit. Most people don't know he was a DJ in Louisiana at 19 and became the producer and adman. Went to LA and worked his way into radio then TV. He was 25,26 for a station that he worked his way up the chain. He was making good money and well on his way to a safe career. I think 64 was the year he just quit and just told few he was going to stand up. Have seen many of his interviews, Jon Stewart was great 90 minute sit-down. I think Lenny Bruce getting banned was his call to arms. He did his Pocono, Catskill act then changed to his own beatnik/hippie act. He saw the new generation and knew that he could use his uniqueness to a crowd that got him.

[@LaurieRein]

@@shawnyoung8752 thanks for the info - didn’t see too many of his interviews. I saw one of him explaining how his jaw hurt - it was actually from a heart attack. He made it through that but unfortunately didn’t last long.

[@socket_error1000]

Carlin was all about making something so absurd that we would all see how absurd the concept was to begin with. In this case it makes no difference how we kill people, the death penalty is just an absurd mode of outdated biblical revenge. When we look at the fact that it deters nobody from committing crimes, costs more to prosecute a capital case, and does little to make the public safer than a simple life-without-parole sentence would, it makes no sense as to why we would continue it without a greater motive. Of course the motive is that it is a effective tool used by politicians to fire up the public who are divided down and ideological and religious lines that also fall on either side of the capital punishment argument. So as long as we allow politicians to use it as a tool, we are their puppets who will fight over it and ignore more important issues.

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

no topic should ever be taboo for honest comedy.

[@auldrick]

James: "It was a different time." No, not really. Carlin was a liberal who hated capital punishment and religious hypocrisy. This is pure satire, intended to shock us with how senselessly brutal capital punishment is, how immoral capitalism can be, and how apathetic Americans are to both. The humor is only there to keep people listening long enough to absorb the real message.

[@jenniferclick1238]

Believe it or not, Carlin was as straight- laced as they come. Back in the day, there were banks actually known as drug banks. Known for laundering $$ on a huge level! That's the reason for restrictions on the amount of $$ that can be deposited at once.

[@MikkiHjalmquist]

He makes you think. Watch "7 words"

[@michellemiller2118]

Laughing so hard, I'm crying 😭 Of course, he's joking. He's using increasingly absurd examples not only for laughs, but to poke fun at the absurdity of the death penalty (just my take, though)

[@FFTEX55]

I'm over here laughing my ass off and Millie looks horrified. Granted I'm about 15 years older then she is. 🤣🤣🤣

[@itme420]

let's go, missed seeing James and Millie

[@kinjiru731]

lol, I love George, he was such a funny guy.

[@Wilson907]

"When was the last time we burned someone at the stake? It's been too long!!" - George Carlin

[@2528drevas]

I've been a Carlin fan since I was 14 years old....and now I'm 63. I find these reactions among the most fascinating. Carlin's humor is so over-the-top to the current generations who are obsessed with "political correctness." Who are triggered by the smallest perceived slight. Watching them react to Carlin is so much fun!

[@stephendavis4241]

Interesting to see Jim sees the cynical side and Millie had a hard time visualizing what she heard. Nice contrast guys!

[@darrinlindsey]

That probably wasn't the best clip to introduce Millie to George Carlin.

[@melindatyler727]

You have to understand times which he was in and how his sarcasm was so funny it's not that he's a cruel man he was somebody that said it was he did it in a sarcastic funny way but he did open guys too many people a lot of the oxymorons of life

[@devon6152]

He doesn't tell jokes. He shows us the condition we're in in a noir way, and we laugh at ourselves. He also often reveals our future which is amazing but he had the perception of what's happening and where it will lead. Some of his older skits spelled out exactly what we're going through now ....

[@thebravesoul]

Glad you discovered the gem that is George Carlin.

[@ronluk76]

Jim and Millie, awesome to see you. Hope you are awesome day! Jim, I know you reacted in the past to the Zac Levine vs. Aaron Gordon NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Can you both please react to the highlights of the 2023 NBA Slam Dunk Contest that just happened? Mac McClung who won the contest put on an all time incredible performance!!!

[@adamcarman6648]

Yall should react to denis leary stand up specially one titled cancer

[@blinky705]

Millie has that "what THE HECK am I watching?" look on her face.

[@rickspigot2205]

I don't understand comedy as much as I should but enjoyed the time.

[@paulbattson834]

Poor Millie!

[@samuelhouston5926]

Oh yea, definitely would have an audience.

[@jlpack62]

I can't believe that Carlin didn't recommend lowering people into the oil feet first.

[@xdragoon2129]

if you feel like you can't laugh at stuff like this, i would recommend you something along the lines of dora the explorer or caillou to react to instead. I'm sure that those would definitely be easier to watch in the blanket fort like reality you seem to live in.

[@therickdarts180]

this is straight upvoting george... you did nothing but he is amazing. good choice!

[@chikami6014]

its funny cuz, people in power really are doing this to people under them x_x we laugh at how ridiculous it is, but its what carlin's tools were to get us to think, and not walk by anymore ;o that deep down, we know there's truth in there

[@jikook7457]

I'm surprised y'all did George Carlin reaction. He's pretty "mature audiences only" lol

[@danbobway5656]

Based George Carlin