FIRST TIME REACTING TO | GEORGE CARLIN "UNALIVE PENALTY" REACTION

[@jamlocys1235]

Carlin had the biggest balls in the history of comedy! He didn't care about anyone, he spoke his mind! Best ever, what a genius this man was!

[@EarleMason]

He was arrested 50 years ago for his "7 words you can't say" bit. He was more accepted in the 80's and since then a legend. Please don't miss "Save the planet" and "Rights and privileges"

[@andrewft31]

She did both of those already

[@shesh_o]

@@andrewft31 Indeed. Earle, if you are looking for the one of Rights she entitled "CHRISTIAN WOMAN REACTS TO GEORGE CARLIN "SWEARING ON THE BIBLE"

[@shesh_o]

Fuck it, I'll link them here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXiWnGpjoquFY6uh (saving the planet) kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3awhImagbGqgJI (rights)

[@peterterry9594]

The FCC fined him too if I'm not mistaken.

[@fan-i-am]

The 7 Words were actually used in a supreme court case!

[@StefanDuncan-b5z]

I saw George live and someone pulled the fire alarm because they were not happy with what he was saying. George is such a professional he continued the show with out the sound system and just yelled the bits till they could get the sound system back on. He was the greatest. He would get d**** threats and many times his shows were protested against. We lost a hero we deserved when this great man passed. one of two of my personal heros!

[@florisv559]

He didn't pass (away). He &$@#! died. No soft language here, please. 😏

[@pigallus]

I´m not from the US, more of the European type, but I grew up with George Carlin. Still use his quotes to this day. Makes me some friends, makes me some enemies. It doesn´t bother me much, but I always get the same look: "wait, what?!" Never mind cancel culture, just be yourself, and don´t take everything so seriously!

[@paulvamos7319]

Yep, 😂 don't be a snowflake! ❤ 🤣 👍

[@aegontargaryen8965]

You can't cancel someone who doesn't care. Cancelling only hurts those who accept it. Look at Ricky Gervais or Eminem. They don't care.

[@trajectoryunown]

For the most part that's true, but that only applies as a standalone qualification when someone works for themselves. If they don't, the value they have to whatever industry they're involved with also holds a big influence. Eminem says something and gets cancelled, if his whole distribution network bails there's a thousand other companies in line dying to set up a meeting with his people. He's fine. Jimmy Nobody, the low-rung keyboard jockey at your local branch of Evilcorp, could easily be deprived of his entire livelihood in a PR stunt to save face. Job gone, reputation gone so no good jobs are hiring, can't afford his living arrangements, and so on...

[@OMGtheykilledKenny42]

@@trajectoryunown so the lesson learned, canceling is dictated by corporate interests.

[@aegontargaryen8965]

@trajectoryunown oh? Tom Macdonald has an argument for that. He's a nobody. Started with nothing. not as big as an a list celeb still doing it cause he don't let haters hate

[@christhornycroft3686]

It was the 90s, the era of extreme. Where you could say almost anything. Sure, a few Wesboro Baptist types would protest you, but nobody took them seriously. I remember as a teenager watching all kinds of stuff on Friday nights in Canada - on basic cable. “Showcase: Television Without Borders.” And Ed The Sock, Canada’s George Carlin, was allowed on TV.

[@Blanknewt]

That is how the 1990's were.

[@claytonjacobs4098]

How it should be. Not this FASCIST control freaks of today.

[@MarkLang61]

I am and old guy who has been listening to George for 40+ years. It gives me SO much satisfaction to see a young person who truly understands George the way that he would have wanted. GREAT JOB!!!

[@Skurian_krotesk]

In medival times there was the job of "Narren" or " Jesters". Those where the only ones who had the ability to ridicule the king without getting executed and this was a very important job . They said absolutely everything to anyone. They said dumb stuff, sarcadtic stuff, hillarious stuff and stuff that is so blatently in your face but so incredibly true that you have no choice but accnowlage it. The crucial part is that you can not blame him because he is just playing the mad person and he sais ridiculous shit. But he sometimes said things that a so true, you just cant help but undertand them in the most profound way. This is the job of good comedians aswell today. They have a socially accepted free ticket to offend everyone in order to be able to speak ultimate truth without the fear of backlash. Very important to the philosophical progression of a society.

[@ryanr5319]

Very well put. Thank you. /bow

[@paulvamos7319]

​@@ryanr5319Why are you bowing? 😂 You meant to say "Take a bow!" I think, right? 👍

[@paulvamos7319]

You aught to watch Christopher Titus who, while dark, is up there with Fluffy and George here! 😂 👍

[@ryanr5319]

Well, just well put, and my earned deference. But yeah, take one too. 🙂

[@zeroreyortsed3624]

"maybe cover the wall with removable plastic." Britt coming up with more efficient ways to accomplish George's death penalty plans. 🤣

[@OMGtheykilledKenny42]

Someone's learned from Dexter Morgan!

[@paulvamos7319]

👍

[@kathycook5768]

At the time , millions hated him thought he was HORRABLE . Then there where us other millions who heard his BRILLANCE and loved him.

[@bobbycorrigan7969]

George will live on forever, thanks for the memories George, RIP, 🙏🙏

[@peterterry9594]

Anyone can correct me here if I'm wrong. We were living in the age of Andrew Dice Clay, Robin Williams, Sam Kinison, Eddie Murphy through the 1980s and 1990s. With the exception of the 7 dirty words one could argue that Carlin wasn't really that over the top at that time. As George put it in one of his specials things got more polarized throughout the 2000s up to now. Also, there was no internet to complain on either at that time

[@elizabethshow5105]

Don’t forget about Richard Pryor… George, Richard and Robin Williams were all genius- despite battling their own demons. Damn, I miss them and their Humor- something so lost by the Woke generation…RIP to all 3.

[@MC-zr6gc]

The Un-Alive Penalty sounds like where the players go in a ghost hockey game. 3 minutes in the "un-alive penalty box" for excessive checking. :D

[@paulvamos7319]

Yes, he did get a lot of grief over his style of comedy but, he was one of those rare type of people that, the more you push, the nastier he became! 😂❤ Yes, I was holding myself and winching because, "OUCH!" 😵 Thank you for sharing your beautiful laughter and opinions with us and the world! 😂 You are gorgeous and your husband is a very lucky man! Much love from Oklahoma Britt! ❤👍 🤗

[@TheNeonParadox]

Actually, as much as people like to complain about so-called "cancel culture" today, it was a lot worse in George's time. He was arrested multiple times for violation of public obscenity laws. He also faced crazy backlash from mommy groups on both sides of the political isle, but mainly religious groups. His shows almost always had protests until around the early 90s.

[@volatilemerican6746]

I don’t know about worse because I think the public being brainwashed into hating you for disagreeing or saying something they don’t like is also pretty damn bad, there’s alot more public hate towards dark humor and less involvement with the law. I’d say it’s changed, it didn’t get better. Today, if he said that about democrats he’d be arrested

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

​@@volatilemerican6746 with all due respect, that last sentence of your comment is utter horse shit. if he were to speak out against either of the extreme ends of the political spectrum -- conservative or liberal -- he would be in some sort of hot water. i consider myself a liberal-leaning moderate. the extreme right calls me libtard, and the extreme left calls me a psycho conservative. there's little room for the middle ground anymore. the issue isn't liberal vs. conservative. the issue is moronic humans. doesn't matter what their politics are. the extremes on *_BOTH_* sides want to control what others are thinking; whether that's 128 genders, or ram-rodding religion down people's throats.

[@shesh_o]

@@volatilemerican6746 Who has been arrested for saying something negative about Democrats?

[@volatilemerican6746]

@@shesh_o well who has SAID extreme things like that to democrats? I may be wrong but I’ve never heard someone say anything like that about democrats, but if they did say it in a blue state it wouldn’t shock me if something similar happened and I don’t think anyone should be arrested either I believe in free speech, but to me it doesn’t seem fair to diss on only one side because both are shitty and it underplays that. George is funny but I don’t entirely agree with him politically, because I think the left is just as bad and even if you don’t get arrested you get cancelled, who gets cancelled for saying the same shit about the left that the left says about the right? Fuckin nobody. The left never gets cancelled or banned off social media dude, people on the left can call Clarence Thomas the N word and get away with it (it happened) people can say to put trump supporters in wood chippers and even though it’s satire, if I said we should put Biden supporters in wood chippers I’d get banned. If I called Biden supporters pedophiles I’d be cancelled or they would at least try, but there’s less people trying to cancel leftists for calling Trump supporters Nazis, and yeah I get it everyone is an asshole these days but in different ways but my only point is cancel culture is a more left leaning thing.

[@shesh_o]

@@volatilemerican6746 You are victimizing yourself. I have heard a lot of horrifying shit that has come from the right to the "left" (the American left is hardly leftist) and nothing has happened. The problem of cancelations comes when the right uses a platform that is mainly watched, or used, by liberals or leftists and tries to promote their agenda in that place. Of course cancellations on that platform would be easy. You can't cancel the nazis or the KKK in Arkansas, but in Portland or San Francisco, definitely will happen. The same happens on the internet or tv.

[@chris6186]

Back then if you didn't like what a comedian said you just didn't go......or listen to it.

[@citizenbrain8065]

That's not exactly true. As long as I can remember there have been self-righteous people trying their best to censor artists. Usually from the same set of people that are doing it now. The PMRC was a thing. They tried to go after music, movies, video games and books. Certain people just can't help acting like the arbiters of morality when they are anything but.

[@MrNeosantana]

That's a ridiculous thing to post on a video of a man who was literally jailed for his comedy

[@shawnyoung8752]

Lenny Bruce went to jail for saying F$@@. Sh%$. Doing his shows in San Francisco on early 60s. Within 300yards you had Carol Doda stripping naked. The beats were doing acid at beings with hundreds at public places that included poloticians,artist actors . Drag shows. You had chinatown with the opium dens that were still around. Carlin went to the Supreme Court to fight for 1rst amendmant right. 7 dirty words. I think he got better as he got older

[@Jurjen_Warrel_Ottenhoff]

But wasn't he jailed because he broke some actual rule, not because some snowflake keyboard warrior didn't like what he said and it hurt their feelings. Even tho they weren't at the show and are only reacting to a short clip online which they could simply not watch and go on with their life.

[@paulvamos7319]

​@@Jurjen_Warrel_OttenhoffHe went to jail a couple of times in the 60's for protesting. I'm not sure of the date but, he was jailed in the 80's for pissing off a cop but, the judge told the cop to stop being such a snowflake and dropped the charge. The cop arrested him for Public Indecency. It was in LA. He's so funny too. 😂❤

[@shadowfrost__]

First off Carlin wouldn't call himself a comedian, he called himself a social satirist or social critic. But the backlash that Carlin received is an interesting roller coaster of a story. This story actually starts with a different comedian, his name is Lenny Bruce. Lenny was a cutting edge comedian in the 1950's. He started to point out issues of racism and the absurdity of what use to be called obscenity laws (in some states they still exist, just not enforced). Lenny Bruce would curse and throw around racial slurs including the N-word. Bruce believed that words are only offensive because society makes it that way, and it shouldn’t be the case at all. So to prove this point he would use them.... frequently. What started happening to Bruce was people would tell the police where is show was happening and the police would go to the show wait for him to curse then walk up on stage and arrest him. This was the form of protest people who didn't like what comedians had to say would engage in.... just have the police arrest them.... in other words tyranny. The most notable of these arrests was in 1961, where George Carlin was in the audience, the police started questioning the crowd and when they got to Carlin they asked for his ID, Carlin told them he didn't believe in government issued ID and was also arrested. This lead to Carlin changing his comedy stylings to more anti-establishment/counter culture topics. In 1972, George Carlin recorded an album called "Class Clown" (yes stand-up comedians use to release record albums of their stuff). On this album he had a routine called 7 dirty words you can't say on television (if you are asked to react to it, please do look up the Class Clown version, it is on KZbin and it is just a static image of the album cover, there is no live video of him doing the original version). George was arrested 7 times for performing the 7 dirty words routine. The other form of resistance that these type of comedians faced was finding places who would allow them to perform, most of the time it would be fear of having their business shut down. But sometime it would simply be they didn't like the content of the comedian. This is what would happen to comedians up to the revelation by the Supreme Court that obscenity laws were violations of the First Amendment. This realization led to that wonderful period of time from the late 1970's to very recently where people would listen to what a person had to say, and if they didn't like it the changed the damn channel, or got up and walked out. Or even better they understood that comedy is subjective, and that comedians are supposed to challenge, flirt, or sometimes flat out cross the lines that society has drawn in the sand. The great comedians Pryor, Carlin, Bruce and so many more did this to perfection, while bad comedians would do it just for shock value. Now with this cancel culture crap, people don't seem to have the sense to stop listening if they don't like what a person has to say. But what's worse is most of the time people don't even know what the content is but because one person with a huge social media following was offended by a routine, or didn't understand the joke posts that it was a personal affront to them, all of their followers immediately start blasting cancel rhetoric. And then they go watch the content with a bias slant that their favorite person was offended so I need to watch it too and be just as, if not more, offended then they were. So the roller coaster/ full circle trip is that it was the ultra-conservatives suppressing free speech with obscenity laws, now the ultra-liberals are seemingly advocating for similar suppression of language based on societal comfort. Pretty sure if Carlin was alive today he would be a cancel culture target, and he would make an hilarious 90 minute HBO special (well probably Netflix now) about the hypocrisy of it all.

[@shawnyoung8752]

He had his Hippy Dippy Weatherman.. and zSportscaster skits that got him on network shows in late 60s. He was on Carson 70 times. He was a guy who was just off the wall observant. He was great at using old advertising bits from 30s on and using them to 70s topics. Only half of viewers got it but carson would eat it up. HBO was his way to screw the man man. He was their first famous and only star. He also was able to speak his mind without FCC censorship. Saw him in 83 then 84. His 7 dirty words went to 130 140. The were broken up but body parts, sex acts etc. The next year he came on and said i have expanded it to 325 or so. So bears with me. His way that he learned to speak from his mother was evident. He used rythum and a singsongy pace. . He took about 6 minutes and only had to slow cause he had to take a breath.

[@jokuz9133]

Love George we need him more than ever

[@SpinX522]

Frying is just the word for what happens to something when you boil something in oil

[@aldito7586]

"Always look on the bright side of life!"

[@bert0522]

Just imagine George had lived today, he'd have a hay day with this shit going on now. Jim

[@shesh_o]

Absolutely not, he would not give a shit about it, Do you think conservative Christians were open-minded about him? They literally made him arrested for his take on "7 words you must not say"...They protested his take on everything, abortion, the country, capitalism, the army, terrorism, and more. He was arrested for "apology to terrorism" after he did his bit on plane security AFTER 9/11.

[@paulinesoares3594]

He would be a republican today. Lol

[@mb8132]

@@paulinesoares3594 I think he'd still be very much liberal minus the PC shit that ppl associate liberalism with nowadays.

[@jamesalexander5623]

If George Carlin were alive today .... Donald Trump would NEVER have been Elected President!

[@deanhockenberry9268]

As a teenager discovering George was amazing. He was an adult the same age our parents were but he was cool, radical and unapologetic.

[@paulvamos7319]

I'm 52 and I got to see him live in NY when I was about 10 with my grandpa! 😂 It was amazing and since grandpa was a disabled veteran, we got permission to meet ol George! 🤣👍

[@richardchocolas8800]

George didn't care what people said. This is also at a time when people weren't offended by everything that was said

[@erikmonolover7015]

Swedish guy here, always a big fan of George. Unfortunately I don't know anyone with the same taste so before I've always watched him alone. Now I always watch him with You. Thanks for the company!

[@chadpaulsen8751]

The world of the 90s was better because there was no social media. I was a teenager in the 90s. I enjoyed that decade much more than anything that happened since the turn of the century.

[@jamesalexander5623]

Yes! And I actually bought and read George's Books.

[@paulvamos7319]

I'm a 70's baby and the 80's were my playground! 😂❤👍

[@rdiddy1411]

I think if he were alive today, he would occasionally get some minor backlash like any comedian would but I do not believe he would get cancelled. He was so intelligent and meticulous about how to construct his jokes. He knew better than anybody how context matters and how to tie it up in a bow at by the end. I do think legend status has some say in that, but I like to compare him to Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of South Park) regarding this question. They have developed that legend status but they are also very crafty when it comes to comedy and how to manage or even manipulate that line.

[@chadpaulsen8751]

I think he would have told anyone who complained to go fuck themselves. Which needs to happen now as well.

[@RPGMendrol]

George used to talk about crafting jokes, and how one element had to be blown WAY out of proportion. That's this whole bit in a nutshell.

[@mooparr]

Calling it unalive instead of death is the exact thing he was talking about when he said our language is getting too soft

[@meteerbil2078]

First time I heard Carlin (around 2005) I had to pause. Beacause I was laying on the floor laughing my ass off.

[@sliceofheaven3026]

i dont think his point was that since we are doing executions of prisoners that we should really start making them public again since throughout human history most executions were public. Think he is just making a point of how outdated method of punishing people for their crimes the execution is as a way of punishment. A civilized society shouldnt probably really kill people by electrocution or by lethal injections which in some cases can go horribly wrong. Also there is a chance that the executed prisoner might be found out later to not be actually guilty for the crime that he or she was sentenced for.

[@volatilemerican6746]

The only reason I can side against death penalty is if someone is framed. However, if someone goes in broad daylight and shoots someone in the brain for the world to see, they aren’t being framed, it actually happened, so I guess it should be reserved for when you see them actually kill someone.

[@stonemansteveiii3135]

Yes, but back then, when people were outraged, they told their wife, and possibly their friends, and then they went back to shutting the fuck up about it!!! Nobody gave a shit about what nobodies were upset about!!

[@MrNeosantana]

"How does he come up with this things?" To quote George, he basically smokes a joint then "it's punch up time!"

[@terreneofficial]

George Carlin - If Christopher Hitchens was a comedian. I miss this dude so much. LEGEND.

[@sylviahernandez7066]

To me he made a lot of sense. There are millions of people who act like they are above everyone. He was admired by millions.

[@franticproductions]

Hi cutie, old guy here (71). Can you imagine being a teen, coming out of the 'black and white' 50s, only to encounter, The Beatles, The Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Dylan, George Carlin and a hundred other, almost all, once in a life-time' 'free thinking artist'? The 60s were 'mind-blowing x 10. [Had to re-think everything]. 'Good job, I'll subscribe', ps, (Don't let 'man-made religion/truth, keep you from What's True, is the theme of the 60s).

[@andyb1653]

Every time I hear someone use terms like "unalived", I think of George's bit about "soft language" and the dumbing down of the English-speaking world.

[@maryseflore7028]

Same here. And it irks me, too. It's a recent one, right? In 2017, two rock singers committed suicide... But now, it's described as "unalived" themselves. Crazy. What's worse is, the word unalive is probably used because the youtube algorythm won't flag it or censor it, while death, suicide, etc. would be.

[@andyb1653]

@@maryseflore7028 It's infuriating. And George would've hated it.

[@konasteph]

hey BrittReacts! Your accomplishment is that you keep George and his message "alive" ! You are doing a service to humanity, this is for certain. And satire is much much more effective than the boring presentation of facts.... namely roasting the outrageous nonsense that is the new normal. Thank you 1000 times to fight the "new normal" and that is where George Carlin comes in! We need to take a look in the mirror and George is holding out a mirror and that is the message!

[@TwoFlyingDutchMen]

People back then knew this weird trick. If they didn't like the messages ofsomeone like carlin. They didn't watch his shows

[@shesh_o]

Except no, they did know an even better trick, JAIL TIME, George went to jail a lot of times for his jokes, also he was attacked several times for them too.

[@willprotector]

George Carlin is the stand up comic version of Jonathan Swift. I love it.

[@eddied.3426]

Really? "Unalive"? To quote George Carlin about euphamisms: that makes me want to engage in an unvoluntary protein spill

[@shesh_o]

Because of the Google algorithm, those kinds of words are immediately shadowbanned.

[@eddied.3426]

@@shesh_o but america is the land of the free... pfft

[@realbser1956]

There was no social media during most of George’s career, except for TV, radio and movies. It was different times, no cancel culture. People were free to say almost anything. If you liked George you watched him and went to his shows. If you didn’t like him, well you didn’t. People had a sense of humor, and could laugh at themselves and at others too. Now, everything is a micro aggression and everyone’s feelings get hurt. No one started on line petitions to erase someone or spread viscous lies that were evil. He was arrested very early in his career for his one routine on the seven dirty words that you can’t say on TV. Most importantly……there was no tweeting!

[@shesh_o]

False, he was arrested countless times for his jokes and attacked too. Cancel culture would be for him amazing, not only because they just say to people don't listen to X, without using the judicial system to censor you, but also because...he never punched down, he was anti-establishment, not pro, they would have loved him, as they do today. Watch those channels that are saying "don't purchase harry potter things", if they got a George Carlin reaction, they laugh to oblivion, which is his audience...center, left, and heavy left people.

[@xzonia1]

The temperatures cooking oils will boil at is much higher than their smoke points, so we don't normally think of boiling foods in oil. However, what George is referring to is a different type of oil (petroleum), which can be brought to boiling temperatures without evaporating. In cooking, boiling is almost exclusively done with water, but outside of the kitchen, it is possible to make a variety of liquids achieve boiling temperatures and thus one could boil items in those liquids. To answer your question about the audience, you need to remember for most of Carlin's career, there was no Internet as we know it today. He died in 2008, and only about half of all Internet users had high speed Internet (capable of streaming videos) at that time. I personally didn't get faster Internet until 2011 and so never watched videos online prior to that year. If someone wanted to watch one of Carlin's routines, they usually had to pay to go to one of his shows or pay to see him on late night HBO or other pay channels on TV. (Fans also could and did buy records of his performances.) The bits he did on late night talk shows were a whole lot tamer than his full routines, more "general public" friendly. So most people were unaware of how provocative his comedy truly was until well after his death. For this reason, he was generally ignored and left unchallenged by the vast majority of people outside of his fan base because they simply didn't know how far his comedy bits really went. I have no doubt he did get an earful from time to time, though, but nothing like what he'd hear if he were alive today.

[@saber1epee0]

George Carlin vs Richard Pryor ERB is so good!! Give it a watch!!!

[@Shedding]

I always thought the future would be better as i grew older. I never thought the 90s were going to be the best time of my life.

[@sleezye100]

George made sure to offend every single person in his audience, and on the planet. If he could do that in one hour show, he was a genius.

[@jim-topia2599]

Have you seen the movie Idiocracy? Please check it out if you haven’t. A lot of the things George talks about seem to happen in it. To a degree George passed the torch to John Stewart.

[@sereanaduwai8313]

George is a Genius. A mind of his own.

[@jackiegoodspeed1849]

We loved George. We didn't have to agree with someone to laugh. If its true, it's true.

[@ingiford175]

George was always considered a 'counter culture' comedian, well anytime after he grew out his hair in the 60s, before that he was more generic with his comedy.

[@gordonduke8812]

Back then they didn't have a cancel culture, people called for boycotts. The rate at which information and outrage spread was at a snails pace compared to today. Also, most people were more concerned with their own life problems to worry what a comedian said during a comedy show.

[@AquaticDot]

As a note, this comes right after his talk on sanctity of life and the connection between conservatives, Christianity, and their hypocritical approval of capital punishment, which is why he's bringing up capital punishment as "Christian values" so much in this particular part.

[@theotherdave8013]

People did try to shut him up a few times but it didnt work. Back then, only a few people were offended, small groups..literally you heard about them being upset from a news report then, that was it. No yelling no social media etc. Also when this was aired/made, the Internet was just starting out, no streaming, no Vlogs, not this not that.. Forums, sure. Annon forums. The world was very different back then.

[@jameshuston9589]

You went there with him. Love how you react. Beautiful.

[@dismothafuka405]

In the early 90s Andrew "dice" clay was canceled by women's groups, and gay groups. I know of 3 things that people have tried to canceled but always fails. 1: looney toones(?) (Parents groups) 2: 3 stooges (Parents groups) 3: George Carlin

[@collinnicholasns]

George Carlin was not a comedian, he was a philosopher. He was there to show us what we all knew but either didn't notice or didn't want to notice. He was the one on the side yelling hey look at this thing you just walked past, what the hell is this?

[@lewismaddox4132]

Listen to "Saving the Planet"! You can hear people screaming out in protest to his scathing dismissal of bourgeois environmentalists. He didn't bat an eyelash, just ignored them and kept plowing along. There is no way cancel culture could effect George. He would shrug his shoulders, dismiss them, and keep selling out venues night after night. He was uncancelable. Oh, by the way, George is making a broader point here. Notice his injection of, "In this sick culture?" And, "The blood is already on our hands!" Just because we execute people out of sight behind prison walls doesn't mean we're any less culpable. The representatives we elected have pulled the trigger on these events. "Don't murder or we'll murder you!"

[@dmwalker24]

I was born in 1980. Did he upset people? Yeah. People who don't like hearing all the problems with the things they believe. People who believe they've found some rationale for things like the death penalty, or Christianity. But the bottom line is that truth is not subjective. Something is true if it is an accurate reflection of observable fact. George's observations were true, and his points were valid. More than that, it wasn't malicious or hateful. It wasn't directing violence, or discrimination, or exclusion. In fact, most of what he said was in order to fight against those things. Context matters.

[@smdftb8495]

I saw him in Tunica, MS, when he was working on his last HBO special. He read the last joke from paper. Carlin and Chappelle are my two favorite comics. I saw Dave for $5 when he came to my college in 2000. Paid $60 over a decade later haha

[@mikemorris8748]

Many people were angry at George. But they dared not fire back at him. See, he was brilliant and they knew anything they said would just be more ammunition for him. And going back at him proves him right.

[@chrisspickerman8864]

Honestly, without social media, people had to come to their own conclusion. No one could go online to see how they are supposed to feel. We had Rolling Stone magazine and Newspapers. Did they all lean a certain way and have their own agendas? Yes. But if we watched HBO and this came on, we knew what we were getting. The "worst" thing Carlin was ever accused of was the language he used. Swear words were thought of as way worse than what people were actually saying back in the day.

[@wtchtower]

They don't allow people to say words such as what he said cos it might hurt someones feelings, but allowed someone to poison the majority with their food and water, isn't it?

[@OMGtheykilledKenny42]

@@wtchtower Like Chappelle said. It's always about corporate interests, just the FCC exercising their power especially when the religious right has a hand in that lobbying.

[@shawnyoung8752]

​@@OMGtheykilledKenny42 you mean the one who want a " White Chirstian Nation" .

[@imnotasfunnyasithink4970]

I know a lot of your questions about George would probably be answered by the HBO George Carlin's American dream. It's a must watch. I know you are a big fan and you'd love it.

[@DavidMiller-kv4we]

I've seen quite a few of this woman's reactions to Carlin... it makes me wonder what she would think of Bill Hicks. hehe

[@johnking1896]

I have been 'holding myself' since I was in the Navy, thanks to George and the best outlook I have heard I do not fear things just understand them better. I have a question, 'Would the Govt. get started in doing the job if they all have to be a gut busting fan' ?, I'd like for it to be tried so we can find out if this works. who knows.

[@ncohafmuta]

"Unalive"? What would Geroge or Bill say about this? Geez, the world is going to antiheaven in a handbasket.

[@protempora1]

To draw people's attention and shake them out of complacency, sometimes it takes outrageous speech.

[@user-ls3po9ph1y]

Comedians can only drop semi-precious gems. If they go farther, then it's not comedy.

[@jeffgagen3561]

George Carlin was a LEGEND!!! Great comedians always push the envelope. Also, people can't get cancelled, the people just stop coming to your shows because your not funny anymore.

[@jeffreysmith2069]

Carlin is Goat; greatest of all time.

[@eliasastol7926]

Carlin was a genius, and you came up with the best solution for the cleanliness... wrap the wall in plastic ;)

[@dainishauka7205]

from Pratchett- the dragon was livid- there was nothing he could do to the humans that they themselves have not done to each other at some point in history

[@mykeCA82]

People in the 80s and 90s didn't need to resort to death threats because people actually understood what a joke was. People today have zero sense of what humour actually is and think everything needs to be "canceled".

[@SilentBob731]

11:10 This semantic discussion of "boiling" vs. "frying" (or more correctly, deep-frying) people in oil in encouraging. You are clearly gaining the grit and moxie to survive if and when the Apocalypse comes. 👍✌❤

[@OvercookedOctopusFeet]

I love George Carlin, great reaction as always.

[@aaronsynra6867]

Not that you'll ever read this reply, but I'm Gen X and grew up listening to Carlin. I even had the pleasure of seeing him in person. If there were any threats to his life he'd of just told them to fuck off. He wasn't the kind of person to suffer fools.

[@GARY6661967]

It's virtually impossible to argue with anything George says.

[@ZeroOskul]

George Carlin definitely had limits and knew he could only push so far before there would be backlash against him. He could fart and belch at the dinner table, that was fine, but he knew not to climb onto the table and squat and let go in the soup That time Carlin canceled himself: From WikiPedia Page: "I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die" "Carlin planned to use the material (recorded September 9-10, 2001) at the taping of his next HBO special in November, which was to be titled "I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die". The special was shelved due to the September 11 attacks the very next day, in which nearly 3,000 people died in airplane hijacking attacks orchestrated by al-Qaeda and bin Laden. Carlin abandoned much of the set, including the closer; the renamed special, Complaints and Grievances, was recorded at the Beacon Theatre in November. The original title was planned to be re-used for a special in 2005 but was again discarded, this time due to Hurricane Katrina. The special, "Life Is Worth Losing", features a re-worked version of "Uncle Dave" titled "Coast-to-Coast Emergency"."

[@jamesalexander5623]

Britt, this entire Bit is tongue-in-cheek Satire!

[@crxmassive]

😂😂 We need someone like George to run this country.

[@DavidRomigJr]

Honestly, people keep saying, “you’d never been able to say that today,” for a lot of the same things decade after decade. Things do change but the themes of society don’t seem to change much over time. You see news stories from two decades ago that sound identical to stories today, and then you go back and then and see it again two decades before that. Maybe you couldn’t say a certain thing today you couldn’t before but not as often as you’d think (or hope).

[@bundymccain2642]

Back then, when people tried to act that way we laughed and mocked them into submission!

[@xdarockstar2560]

Bill Burr is exactly like George Carlin if you watch population management

[@shesh_o]

Well, Carlin is his biggest hero.

[@andrewames247]

13:30 There's actually a bit of historical context to that; there's no angel dust involved, though. There was a (debated) historical execution method known as scaphism, that involved, after a lengthy suffering, being literally consumed by vermin...

[@Silence_Duder_Gooder]

Haha, you use the word "yikes" too!? You must have grown up watching the old-school cartoons like I did! I believe this was the year I got to see him, fifth row; I believe it was 1992. I was only 23 at the time. And my ribs hurt so much the next day that it was like a mule kicked me. His command of the stage, and obviously the English language, was _impeccable!_ What a show! 🤘 George is the guy who got me into politics. At that time of my life, I wasn't heavily into the political arena. And sure, I instinctively knew we were getting screwed left and right, but it was George who brought me out of my cocoon and activated me. So much so that I eventually marched during Occupy Oakland and worked 45 straight days for about 14 hours a day during 2009. Without George's influence, I may not have participated. George was also way ahead of his time about the heads rolling into numbered holes and gambling, as today we can gamble on sports with just one touch of our so-called "phones." Fan Duel and Draft Kings comes to mind _immediately._

[@collinnicholasns]

The reason for this whole bit was that he was trying to point out how the whole argument for or against capital punishment made no sense. He was taking the whole thing to the extreme because he knew people were claiming that they wanted capital punishment but nobody really wanted to be the one to actually perform it or think about it. They wanted the outcome without the guilt of being the one who made it happen. George just went to the extreme to show how ridiculous that idea was.

[@theuriah01]

Congress needs to come up with a new bill. Repeal the 8th ammendment!

[@briantynan2418]

He got arrested for disturbing the peace over his 7 words you cant say routine. He was fearless.

[@Dimetropteryx]

Cancel culture either has always been a thing, and people just conveniently choose to forget about all the things people were cancelled for, or it has never been a thing. The only thing that has changed, really, is that the people who have traditionally been doing all the cancelling, are now on the receiving end, and they just can't handle it and it's absolutely beautiful. George Carlin himself was one of the first comedians that actually got away with acts like this. Lenny Bruce, for example, was hounded and even convicted for obscenity because of acts that are absolutely tame by comparison. Oh yeah, people used to get cancelled for swearing.

[@artis-x9c]

He didn't take much blow back that I'am aware of back in the day. People could take a joke back then.

[@pillar81]

“Hey! Don’t bail out on me now g-ddamn it!” 😂

[@andrewames247]

6:20 As was said in Rome, it's "bread and circuses" all over again...

[@Random_user_8472]

George Carlin wasn't against God, but against religion and some other mind/body controlling institutions like governments, Financial Institutions and (polluting) industry. The man was very clear voyant and behind his uncensored humor he sent a true message. A bit harsh maybe, but the shocking effect makes people actually think, he's an eye opener.

[@WideOldDan]

"In a tizzy" that's a nice old phrase. The only person i can remember saying that is my dad and he's 84

[@klaritydawn]

He Is ONLY speaking truth. ❤

[@raykrzwda393]

No matter what it comes down to free speech I seen him live one time in Milwaukee Wisconsin

[@rexbidextrous]

once he attained a level of recognition as to what he was about....he was untouchable...those who didn't like him could keep their opinions to themselves....and the people that loved him were behind him 150% the ignorant and self righteous, had no power over him.

[@neildarealdeal7129]

George Carlin, the GOAT! Darealdeal

[@oscarlebron9088]

His shows were never like it was back in the nineties. Compare to him up until the last few years of his life he was an angel! He was never the raunchy or lewd or risqué as he put it, however, there was a time when one of his shows was called the seven words you cannot say on tv. I think that’s when we began to see him in all his glory. Back in the nineties there was and still is political correctness, and the war in Iraq. There was advances in technology like the World Wide Web,the Penguin micro processor, the Hubble telescope, the Oslo Accords \, Dolly the sheep was the first animal to be cloned! The funeral of Princess Diana, the Rwanda genocide, AOL,Yahoo, the Dot-Com bubble. So many things happened in the 90s that it was only 33 years ago

[@mikefitznb1]

if you go to his show or listen to his recordings you know what your getting into

[@markwakefield8533]

To respond to Peter Terry No one is over the top when they observe and comment on reality he merely exaggerated it

[@HeathTodd1976]

I loved George Carlin.. He was over the top with his examples but did so in order to capture your attention and show you what the problem is. The wrong people, or maybe not enough of the right people, are getting the consequences of the crimes. It's what I view is the problem of politics currently. People left and right are getting caught doing things in politics that 200 hundred years ago would have had them executed much like what George is saying in this vid. They don't do that anymore.. And it's very likely they won't get any consequences what so ever for what they've done or attempted to do. George does a great job of showing you what a joke it is today, how stupid we are and quiet possibly how literally F'ed we are in the very near future. There's a lot of truth in comedy if you listen close enough.