George Carlin Is Still Dead

Last night it was George Carlin Night at the Mark Twain Prize for Humor ceremony, held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

It took Carlin a full week to absorb the impact of being named this year's recipient. The prestigious honor was too much for him, and he died last June. But the scheduled night went on! PBS recorded the proceedings, so watch for it to be broadcast in April.

Carlin, Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor will be remembered as having successfully pushed the limits on what had been considered to be obscene in stand-up comedy. Every comic who has followed in their wake owes a part of their careers to this groundbreaking triad.

Here is an older Carlin at his scatological best, with nary a curse word within the rapid-fire 5000-or-so other words used as he describes himself:

YouTube - George Carlin - I'm A Modern Man

Speaking of comedians, you can't beat the hijinks this weekend at the 9:30 Club in DC. There was an extremely inebriated Democrat in the audience for the Grateful Dead tribute band, Dark Star Orchestra. He chose to express his appreciation in a most distasteful fashion:

Wonkette : Jersey City Dem Pees All Over D.C. Nightclubbers

The question is, will he appear before a jury of his pee-ers? Oh my, the Wonkette snark comments are still the best.

Following the thread of strange but timely humor, here is a new website constructed by the RNC. It is soliciting suggestions on how to reconstruct the pulverized Republican party. Some are good, some are wacky. I like the Truck Nutz for All suggestion (83 votes!) Note the preponderance of Libertarian responses:

Customer Feedback for Rebuild the Party

Given the amount of finger-pointing and muttered oaths and backstabbing and unattributed quotes going on within the Republican Party leadership, we could be witnessing soon a political version of this:

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Carlin would have loved that. And now for the Quote of the Day. In honor of George Carlin, we have two:

"I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."

"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."