Do not waste your money on this guy, Geroge Carlin, but by all means check the guy's site. The intro for Carlin's web site is pretty much exactly what you get in the show only you get to watch a old man hurl brittle old jokes for over an hour, in person.
I just knew it was going to be bad when two or three minutes into the show he started talking about ... 'pussy farts'. I kid you not.
It's too bad he wasn't playing a birthday party to 15, no, 14 year old boys. He would have had them rolling and screaming for encores and next year's party. Oh, sure. A significant part of the crowd of less than say 600 (a full house) thought it was pretty funny. Others did not and I noticed a few walked out later about halfway through the show.
Honestly, he did get a couple of shots in at President Bush but those were much obscured by the lengthy free-association references to masterbation, religion, the NRA and the like. He actually got my attention with the short one-liners about paying for 'Tic-Tacs' with credit cards at the Convenience Marts but then got back to the business of attempting to shock me into 'thought.'
In the end, his great long climax (beg pardon) revolved around why he liked death and destruction so much (again, I kid you not) because in his alternate universe, not possibe to achieve until this world reaches a critical mass in terms of something just short of Armageddon, he manages to imagine/transform all the ne'er-do-well 'Uncle Daves' of this world and allow them finally get their proper and lengthy days in the sun where they win the Lottos, have successful marriages and are respected.
And, again, I kid you not, the guy is in pain and needs therapy not a road show.
You are in the minority as Carlin is brilliant. Been around forever. Wonder why? He is a master of comedy and thoughts the average person, like yourself, do not think of.
Posted by: Buck Marshall | October 19, 2005 at 11:00 AM