Name: The Legacy of George Carlin
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Legacy of George Carlin' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-01-11. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Legacy of George Carlin' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-01-11. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- With the exception of Carlin,
no one was doing the hourly thing.
- He was the unusual exception.
He was so unusual 'cause he was doing a new one every year.
- I always think it's so funny how Carlin is so revered,
but obviously all comedians respect him,
but like during when he was around,
I don't think he got enough respect.
You know what I mean?
He was probably appreciated for the words
you can't say on television,
but like he was pumping out some really serious stuff.
- Yeah.
- And I think the audience didn't really like
some of the shit he was saying.
Do you know what I mean?
- Yeah.
- All these rich people in the audience,
he's like, we should turn all the golf courses
and give 'em to homeless people.
People are like, wait a minute,
we paid to get in here?
Do you know what I mean?
- Yeah.
Well, he definitely had a lot of counterculture in him,
you know, a lot of rabble rouser,
and he has some great bits to this day about diseases
that people keep reposting, you know?
- Yeah.
Oh, it's just, there's not a week on Twitter
where he doesn't have some, you know, clip
that really kind of captures the moment.
- How many specials did he have?
Let's just guess, 15?
- I think he had 20.
- 20, probably.
- I think he did one for every year at the peak of HBO.
When HBO, to get a special on HBO, he was, it was a standard.
'Cause, and I remember I saw in an interview,
maybe this is, that, you know, he tried the sitcom thing
and they, it didn't work.
So he stuck with stand-up.
I don't know what the, there's, there's Carlin experts
that were probably, could explain a lot better than me.
- Well, he, he had some really good interviews
and God, I wish I, he was alive while I was doing the podcast
where I could have interviewed him and talked to him.
Maybe he was in the beginning.
What year did he die?
I, everything's a blur now.
Everything was six years ago or four years ago.
- I wanna say, I wanna say he died like 11, 2011?
- 2008.
- 2008.
- Wow.
- So, it was actually before the podcast, so.
But if I had the opportunity to talk to him,
I would have definitely talked to him
about his creative process.
But there's some pretty good interviews
where he talked about that.
- Oh yeah, no, I remember, I'm trying to just turn off
my phone 'cause I'm an idiot
and I didn't turn it off before.
- Look at all these specials.
- Yeah, that's unbelievable.
- So, he went, he had some gaps, right?
Like, look at that, 63 and then 67 and then 72
and then another one in 72.
God, he had two in 72 and then one in 73, one in 74, 75,
77, 81, 84.
So, what is the total number?
- So, for this discography for main, I guess,
whatever main means, is 20, including that 2016 one.
- So, the 2016 one, I kinda like it when a lot of people die,
was supposed to be out on 2001, around September 11th.
But it was literally scheduled to come out
right after September 11th, and the name of it,
I kinda like it when a lot of people die.
That's fuckin', obviously, a bit of an issue.
- Yeah.
- But so many--
- HBO specials, look at that.
- I don't know if it was separate from that, too.
- Oh, I always thought it was every year.
That's so interesting, I thought it was every year.
- I felt like it was, too.
- First 12 specials.
- Huh.
So, those are HBO specials, and what are the other ones?
Are those albums?
- Yeah, I guess that'd be audio albums, maybe,
'cause there's also television and film appearances in there.
- Scroll down, scroll down.
Where you just had up, where it said, scroll down.
So, what is that, television?
- Oh, okay, so these are different, okay, and scroll down a little further.
So, these are all spots on television shows, and then scroll down a little
further,
and these are the HBO specials.
- Yeah.
- And then written works and audio books, wow, a lot, a lot.
- Yeah, I know that he went through a period he dealt with, I mean, you
probably have interviewed
Kelly Carlin, probably.
- I haven't.
I've spoken to her on Twitter.
- I don't know her at all, but like, I know that he struggled with some
addiction and stuff
like that, but.
- He had a pill issue for a while.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- I remember, I was, I was probably 93, I just started stand-up, and he went on
at the
original improv on 44th Street, and I remember he had a tape player, and he had
a piece of
paper where he, you know, like a cassette recorder, and he had these notes, and
he had punchlines
underlined.
- I mean, granted, this is 30 years ago, so maybe I'm remembering some of it
wrong, but
I remember thinking, God, that is just, the detailing was so impressive, that,
and you can see it in
his writing.
- Yeah.
- I mean, the wordsmith is just so extensive.
- Yeah, he would write out his entire special, word for word, and then he would
just kind of
tighten it up.
- Yeah.
- That was how he did it, and he would write sober, and then he would punch up
on marijuana.
- Right.
- He would smoke pot and punch it up.
- Wow.
- Yeah, that was his move.
- Brilliant.
- I saw him bomb.
- Oh yeah.
- In front of my roommates.
- Really?
- In New Hampshire in 1988, 1989, yeah.
I think he went through a rough patch a couple of times in his career.
- I think with new material, you know, it's like American stand-ups versus like
British
stand-ups, there is, you know, there's such a necessity to kill in America.
- Right.
- Like, you can't be bad for a moment.
- Yeah, that's why I was so impressed when I saw Chris Rock once at the Comedy
Store just
fearlessly like, "What else?
What else?"
And he didn't get laughs for like 10 minutes, and he's like, "Okay."
And then he got offstage completely unfazed.
Like, I would be like, "Ah!"
"Get me heroin, something!"
And, uh, but the whole thing of, uh, Carlin, uh, just the volume was insane.
And also, you have to, you have to, you have to risk bombing.
- Yeah, he didn't work out either.
Like, he didn't go to comedy clubs and practice.
That was actually part of one of his routine.
He had this routine called, uh, "And Fuck This."
And it was like, everything was, "Fuck this," and "Fuck that," and "Fuck comedy
clubs."
He like, he literally said, "Fuck comedy clubs."
Like, "I don't have to work out in comedy clubs."
And he would just go, and when I saw him in New Hampshire,
he went on stage with a legal pad, a yellow legal pad.
And he had all his stuff written out, and he put it down.
And my roommate was like, "Why is you reading his jokes?"
And I was like, "Because they're new jokes, you fuck."
Thank you.