On a more serious note…
Being a somewhat funny website (well, we try, anyway), we’d be extremely remiss if we did not acknowledge the passing of one of the all-time greatest comedians, George Carlin. His humor transcended so many generations, and through all the years he performed he was able to keep his material fresh and current. Plus, he taught us that two excellent dudes with a great idea can change the world, man. (Come on, Rufus has to be one of the greatest movie characters of all time.)
If you haven’t seen any of his material, do yourself a favor and search YouTube, and just click on anything. Seriously, if there’s a topic you can think of, odds are Carlin had a rap about it. You’ve probably heard of this one.
RIP George. Your humor will certainly be missed. 
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:30 pm
bump (not like we really need ‘bumps’ over here, but nonetheless).
I was shocked to see this on the cover page of the paper this morning. Not that I actually read the paper or anything - but the guys who sit next to me on the train usually do.
Sad to see good comedians go. But can this please mean that Eddie Murphy can stop doing kid stuff now and come back to being a proper comedian like he used to be in the old days? Pretty please?
June 27th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Agreed. He taught me my first swear. No make that list of swears. Our parents were progressive enough to let us play AM/FM and Class Clown to our little hearts content. And we did, so much so that at the end of the 7 Words You Can’t Say on Television bit, the record developed a serious and permanent skip (see kids, there used to be these things called records: we played them on our old timey turntables), and if you put on the record and forgot about it (which my sister, brother and I did quite often) eventually you would realize that the a swear had been repeating for the past 20 minutes or so, filling the entitre house with this naughty refrain: “tits-ah” *skip* “tits-ah” *skip* “tits-ah”. It never failed to perk up an otherwise boring afternoon.
My highest hope for my pathetic little comedic career was to one day be in the same place as Carlin, so I could tell him that story.