George Carlin: Doin' It Again Page #7

Synopsis: George Carlin brings his comedy back to New Jersey and this time talks about Offensive Language, Euphemisms, They're Only Words, Dogs, Things you never hear, see or wanna hear, Some people are stupid, Cancer, Feminists, Good Ideas, Rape, Life's moments, and organ donors.
Director(s): Rocco Urbisci
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
8.5
Year:
1990
60 min
599 Views


part of it to us, do they?

Never mention

that part of it.

Some of this stuff is just

silly, we all know that.

Like on the airlines,

they say they

want to pre board.

Well, what the

hell is pre board,

what does that mean?

To get on before you get on?

They say they're going to

pre board those passengers

in need of

special assistance.

Cripples.

Simple, honest,

direct language.

There's no shame

attached to the word cripple

that I can find

in any dictionary,

no shame attached to it.

In fact it's a word used

in Bible translations,

Jesus healed the cripples.

Doesn't take seven words

to describe that condition.

But we don't

have any cripples

in this country any more.

We have the

physically challenged.

Is that a grotesque

enough evasion for you?

How about differently abled?

I've heard them called that,

differently abled.

You can't even call these

people handicapped anymore.

They'll say,

we're not handicapped,

we're handy capable.

These poor people have been

bullshitted by the system

into believing that if you

change the name of the condition,

somehow you'll

change the condition.

Well, hey cousin

doesn't happen.

Doesn't happen.

We have no more deaf

people in this country,

hearing impaired.

No one's blind any more,

partially sighted

or visually impaired.

We have no more

stupid people.

Everybody has a

learning disorder,

or he's minimally exceptional.

How would you like to be

told that about your child,

he's minimally exceptional.

Oh, thank God for that.

Psychologists actually have

started calling ugly people

those with severe

appearance deficits.

It's getting so

bad that any day now

I expect to hear a rape victim

referred to as an

unwilling sperm recipient.

And we have no more old

people in this country,

no more old people.

We shipped them all away,

and we brought in

these senior citizens.

Isn't that a

typically American

20th Century phrase?

Bloodless, lifeless.

No pulse in one of them.

A senior citizen.

And I've accepted that one,

I've come to terms with it,

I know it's here to stay.

We'll never get rid of it,

that's what they're

going to be called,

so I'll relax on that.

But the one I do resist,

the one I keep resisting,

is when they look at an

old guy, and they say,

look at him, Dan,

he's 90 years young.

Imagine the fear of

aging that reveals,

to not even be able

to use the word old

to describe someone,

to have to use an antonym.

And fear of

aging is natural,

it's universal isn't it.

We all have that.

No one wants to get old,

no one wants to die,

but we do.

So we bullshit ourselves.

I started

bullshitting myself

when I got to my 40's.

Soon as I was in my 40's

I'd look in the

mirror and I'd say,

well, I guess

I'm getting older.

Older sounds a little

better than old, doesn't it.

Sounds like it might

even last a little longer.

Bullshit, I'm getting old,

and it's okay,

because thanks to our fear

of death in this country

I won't have to die.

I'll pass away.

Or I'll expire like a

magazine subscription.

If it happens

in the hospital,

they'll call it

a terminal episode.

The insurance company

will refer to it

as negative

patient care outcome,

and if it's the

result of malpractice,

they'll say it was a

therapeutic misadventure.

I'm telling you,

some of this language

makes me want to vomit.

Well, maybe not vomit,

makes me want to engage

in an involuntary

personal protein spill.

Thank you all.

Give me a little

light for Moe.

Moe says hello.

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George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic. Carlin was noted for his black comedy and reflections on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. He and his "seven dirty words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a 5–4 decision affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comics; one newspaper called Carlin "the dean of counterculture comedians". In April 2004, he placed second on the Comedy Central list of "Top 10 Comedians of US Audiences".The first of Carlin's 14 stand-up comedy specials for HBO was filmed in 1977. From the late 1980s, Carlin's routines focused on sociocultural criticism of American society. He often commented on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirized the excesses of American culture. He was a frequent performer and guest host on The Tonight Show during the three-decade Johnny Carson era, and hosted the first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975. His final HBO special, It's Bad for Ya, was filmed less than four months before his death. In 2008, he was posthumously awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him second (behind Richard Pryor) on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time. more…

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