"Andy" <q> wrote:

> Gregory Morrow said...
>
> >
> > Lou Decruss wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:34:36 -0500, "Gregory Morrow"
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >He started an unfortunate trend towards drug - addled and potty -
> mouthed
> >> >"humor"...
> >> >
> >> >He was certainly *no* Fred Allen...
> >>
> >> I read "when will jesus bring the pork chops" a few months ago. It
> >> got a little better at the end, but most was not very funny.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Carlin's humor is very much "of a time and place". It was
groundbreaking
> > and hilarious in the late 60's when he first started out, he broke many
> > taboos - of course Lenny Bruce did, too, - but Carlin was "in the right
> > place at the time", so he got mainstream exposure fairly early on...
> >
> > [_Laugh - In_ I remember at the time as being shocking and hilarious,
but
> > when I try watching it now it's unbearably dated and lame to
> me...redolent
> > of a time and place, it doesn't "translate" well to today.]
> >
> > Remember, when he was first becoming popular the Hollywood Production
> Code
> > had only been shattered in 1966 (_Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf_), so
we
> > were more than ready for his brand of humor...he was one of those of who
> > broke the dam of the last lingerings of propriety.
> >
> > The last several decades have seen ordinary news items elevated to the
> > status of sheer weirdness, we are now accustomed to very goofy and
absurd
> > stuff popping up all the time, the demand for 24/7/365 media titillation
> is
> > insatiable...the daily reality is often more hilarious than anything
> Carlin
> > could have dreamed up in his heyday.
> >
> > Maybe the prob is that glaring and obvious irony and the absurdity it
> > springs from has become such a commonplace in everyday life...post -
> > modernism and post - irony and ennui and all that jazz.
> >
> > If I still smoked pot I'd roll a doobie in his memory, using a double -
> > gated Led Zeppelin or Stones album cover, but I don't smoke pot anymore
> nor
> > do I have any LP's...
> >
> > ;-)
>
>
> Ya seriouly had NO affection for the man?!?!
>
> What a bum!!!


Why on *earth* would I have any "affection" for a *total* stranger...???

I may certainly appreciate someone's talent or admire their character, good
deeds, or whatever, but no, I don't have generally have "affection" for
public figures I've never met...


--
Best
Greg