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♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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GEORGE CARLIN: (NARRATING)
In my personal little world,
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I can't worry
about offending someone
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because that's flinching.
You can't flinch.
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If you mean what you're saying.
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GEORGE: (ONSTAGE)
A lot of these cultural crimes
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can be blamed on
the baby boomers.
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Whiny, narcissistic,
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self-indulgent people
with a simple philosophy,
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-"Give me that, it's mine!"
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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"Give me that, it's mine!"
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(NARRATING) The line exists.
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(ONSTAGE) These peoplewere given everything.
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(NARRATING)
There'll always be taboos.
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(ONSTAGE)
Everything was handed to them.
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(NARRATING) Always be thingsthat if you don't handle them
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a certain way,
people will reject you.
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And they took it all.
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
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And they stayed loaded
for 20 years
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and had a free ride.
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But now, they're staring down
the barrel of middle-age burnout
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and they don't like it,
so they turn self-righteous.
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And they want to
make things hard
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on younger people.
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As for the rock and roll,
they sold that
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for television commercials
a long time ago.
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But I always mean
what I'm saying,
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and I just go for it.
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-(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-They're cold, bloodless people.
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It's in their slogans,
it's in their rhetoric,
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"No pain, no gain."
"Just do it."
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"Life is short, play hard."
"Shit happens. Deal with it."
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"Get at a life." These people
went from, "Do your own thing,"
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-to, "Just say no."
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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They went from,
"Love is all you need,"
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to, "Whoever winds up
with the most toys wins."
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And they went from
cocaine to Rogaine.
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-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, CHEERING)
-They did.
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Fuck these boomers.
Fuck these yuppies,
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and fuck everybody
now that I think of it.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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♪ (EPIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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Here's George Carlin!
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(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
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CHIEF JUSTICE: I, Ronald Reagan,do solemnly swear...
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RONALD REAGAN: I, Ronald Reagan,do solemnly swear...
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-How you doing, doc?
-I'm doing great there, Georgie.
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REAGAN: ...that I willfaithfully execute the office
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of President
of the United States.
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We just got back from the, uh,
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inaugural festivities
in Washington.
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Thank God for a president
who agrees in totality
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of what we morally
stand for here.
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MAN: We must havenot only a government
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that defends freedom.
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We must have a government
that defends the right to life.
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(CHANTING)
Fight back, fight AIDS!
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REPORTER: Falwell's July issueof Moral Majority Report
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charges the American family
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is now threatened
by the AIDS epidemic.
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REAGAN: Protect and defendthe Constitution
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of the United States.
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Well, it's a wait-and-see
for some folks,
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you know,
but he's the only one we got.
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That's what
I keep hearing people say,
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"Well, he's the only president
we have."
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-So help you God.
-So help me God.
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♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
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♪ (GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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KELLY CARLIN: In the early '80s,
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he was still very disconnected
as a human being.
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He was fully aware that he was
always compartmentalizing
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his head from his heart.
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Like he'd say,
"I live from here up," you know.
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I think in some ways
it's all he knew how to do
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was go on the road
and get on a stage.
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After Mom was sober,
she said to my dad,
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"You cannot bring cocaine
in the house ever again."
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And he absolutely abided
by that rule.
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But my dad wasn't quite ready
to quit
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and didn't quit.
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And he would have these binges.
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He would disappear
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Twice I remember that happening.
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A terrifying two or three days,
him gone,
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have no idea where he is.
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JERRY HAMZA: He had tohave a buzz going all the time.
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But he always got
through his shows.
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He got through his shows.
Sometimes he would stop on stage
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and forget a line,
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but the people were always
very forgiving with him and...
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God, you'd look
at the stage afterwards,
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there'd be 20 joints
on the stage.
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They'd just throw them up
on stage. (LAUGHS)
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He took them sometimes too.
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(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
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JERRY: He loved his work,
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and that's where
he really lived, in the trees.
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He lived in his own head.
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Thank you very much,
ladies and gentlemen.
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My name is George Carlin,
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and I am
a professional comedian.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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As opposed to the kind
you run into at work
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-all day long.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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JERRY: Even though the albums
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in that time period
were subsiding,
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he used to do
the Johnny Carson Show maybe
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six days a year,
you know, as a fill-in.
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What you do is you pump out
30 pounds of pressure.
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-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
-And then you keep, you see--
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And it keeps...
You see what it does.
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-I love that.
-And it keeps the--
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I want one of those.
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JERRY: And between thatand what was left of the albums,
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-we could do business.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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JERRY: But I thoughtthere was a lot more there.
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I always thought
there was a lot more there.
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Say, that doesn't feel bad,
you know?
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-Oh, yeah. Yeah.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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And what's really funny is,
I think about George
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so many times telling me,
"I'm really practical."
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And every time he'd say that,
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I almost laughed
right in his face.
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I think a lot of us
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who sat in the movie theaters
of America as kids,
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when we decided we wanted
to be in show business,
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-we thought of movies...
-JERRY: Anyway,
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what had happened was this.
He had been trying to do a movie
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called
The Illustrated George Carlin.
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So now I'm finally
taking that step for myself.
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I, uh, I have a film idea,
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it's called
The Illustrated George Carlin.
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We're doing it
outside of the studios.
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We're not--
We haven't fooled with them.
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We have money independently.
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And I says, "Well, how much
money have you raised so far?"
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And he says, "None."
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When are you going to
have this together?
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Should take
another eight months or so.
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(CHUCKLES) This was after
three years of paying salaries
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and everything
that goes with it.
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JERRY: And then he didn't payhis taxes properly
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for like three years.
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Well, let me tell you something.
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You figure it out
with your accountant,
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and you start adding
the penalties and interests
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and everything else.
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Plus, the new money
and the taxes on that.
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Plus, he was supporting
three families.
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He was supporting
his daughter's family,
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his brother's family,
and, uh, his own family.
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So it was a struggle.
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♪ (SLOW MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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GEORGE: I think Jerrydidn't tell me the awful truth.
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Boy, it really looks
fucking bleak
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and it's getting worse.
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And I have walked away
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from this
Illustrated George Carlin thing.
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That whole thing collapsed
in flames,
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and I cried on the phone
to Brenda.
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"I said, "It's over,
I can't do this.
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It's not going to work."
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And I'm driving down
to Dayton from Toronto,
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and I drank a lot of beer
on the way.
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And I finally crashed my car
into a fucking pole,
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completely demolishing my nose.
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I'm working on a new nose.
You might have heard that.
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I redesigned a Volvo last month.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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GEORGE: I never did quiteget through that windshield
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like they said in the paper.
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But, uh, they're working
on the nose for me.
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Next year, they're gonna
shine it and buff it
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-and do something to it.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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GEORGE: It's my new nose
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and I promise this time
not to blow it. Okay?
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JERRY: By now,the business was in the sewer.
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So, shit, we were lucky to
go out and pay for the flights
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and pay the opening act.
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And I'd get on the phone
to get an interview,
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and what do you think
they wanted to talk about?
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Only one thing. Drugs.
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HOST:
You made a reference earlier
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-to your drug history.
-Yeah.
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HOST: Are you...
Is that all gone completely?
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Absolutely. Yeah. And, uh,
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well, it was only the one drug,
you know. (CHUCKLES)
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-The cocaine.
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Uh, and occasionally, you'd take
a little something else with it,
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but I was never, uh,
a person who did anything
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but as much cocaine as there was
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in the immediate
three-county area
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-at that time.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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GEORGE:
But, you know, all you can do
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is talk about the truth
because it happened to you.
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(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
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COMMENTATOR:
As he sort of checked himself,
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David Huff at the defense.
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JERRY:
I had tickets to see the Mets,
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who George loved,
play the Dodgers, who he hated.
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I need one. Fernando!
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JERRY: And Fernando Valenzuelawas pitching.
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"George told me, "Jerry, I got
a little something in my chest.
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I don't know
what the hell it is.
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"Maybe it was those hot dogs.
We better get out of here."
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Los Angeles fans are notorious
for leaving early,
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but because they were winning,
they stuck around.
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And I'm glad they did.
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'Cause we went downstairs,
got in a limo,
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and by now,
George is going like this.
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He's stretching his chest.
He's opening his shirt.
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And the driver, I says,
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"You better go like hell to
the hospital in Santa Monica."
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We were doing 110 miles an hour.
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And he got us there,
thank goodness.
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He was almost dead.
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KELLY: They were really not surethose first 48 hours
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what was going to go down,
what was going to happen.
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And my mom was told
to go say goodbye to my dad.
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I think
that scared the shit out of him.
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That heart attack really
put the cocaine in its place.
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Because he knew he had
a ticking time bomb
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in his chest
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His father did drop dead.
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JERRY: It was pretty horrible
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because he was taking
all these blood thinners.
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He'd show up on a plane and,
you know,
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his hands would be purple.
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And he had a hammer
hanging over his head.
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HOST: Here's George Carlin.
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(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
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(CHEERING STOPS)
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-(DEVICE CLICKING)
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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This is one
of the new artificial hearts,
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which I was given
following my recent illness.
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They just... (CLICKS TONGUE)
...put them right in.
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And for those of you at home
who are do-it-yourselfers,
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these are available
at RadioShack.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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I just thought
I'd bring you up to date
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on the comedian's
health sweepstakes.
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I am now ahead of Richard Pryor
in heart attacks. Two to one.
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And Richard is ahead of me
on burning yourself up.
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Richard is leading on that.
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See, the way it happened
was, uh,
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first, Richard
had a heart attack,
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uh, then I had a heart attack,
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and then Richard
burned himself up.
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And then I said, "I think
I'll have another heart attack."
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-(CHUCKLES)
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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Are you happy, George Carlin,
at, what is it, 45?
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GEORGE: Well,
I'm happier than I was, say,
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a year ago,
or even six months ago.
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Uh, since the heart attack,
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I've had to take
a very close look
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at how I manage stress,
how I handle it,
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and apparently,
not very well in the past.
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I'm one of those people
who denies feelings.
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"No, that's not happening.
Couldn't be. No, never mind."
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"What, they did that to me?
No sweat."
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"There's another day tomorrow."
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And I never expressed my anger
or my sadness.
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You really did feel it.
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I mean,
all of that stuff coming out
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was just so much of a guise?
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I got so good at it. No,
but you get so good at it
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that you don't know
you're doing it.
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Do you ever look back
at the George Carlin
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that was eight years ago
and wonder who he was? No?
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Well, he's great. He was fine.
He was just a little crazier.
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Just a little...
Didn't know what he was doing.
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Didn't know what he needed,
you know.
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We had-- We had tough years
to go through together.
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I'm talking for my wife
and me now, together.
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And I was just responding
to being a hit, an overnight.
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You know, suddenly, here's
all this stuff happening to me,
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and I had this money.
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And that takes some adjustment,
you know, so...
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He was fine. He was who
he needed to be at that time.
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♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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HOST:
You've got some dates coming up.
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GEORGE: Yeah, well,I'm gonna do Carnegie Hall
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and we're taping it that night
for my own production company.
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And it's going to be
our first cable release.
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-HOST: Fantastic.
-GEORGE: So I'm in business
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for myself
with my partner, Jerry Hamza.
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For a change, I'm going to
get to keep some of this stuff.
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I just want to say
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I'm really happy
to be here in Carnegie Hall.
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Andrew Carnegie is dead,
but I figure fuck him.
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We've just found out
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that everyone
is in the wrong seat.
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Would you please change places
with the person two seats over
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and four seats down?
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Now, there are also you people
that are sitting
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in what is known as the boxes.
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I don't want you
to get horny on anything,
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'cause... Work out something
about the word boxes.
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You'll think of it, George,
you're a clever guy.
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Do a stand-up about--
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Take the thing
about a place for your stuff,
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your house, your home.
And take it from there
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and do a whole thing
about what's in the house
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and what's in the home.
That's where keep your stuff,
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that's where you
keep your stuff.
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And you start in talking
about what stuff is in what room
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and how you keep it.
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(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
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-Hi there. How are you?
-(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
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How you doing?
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How are you doing?
Good evening, everybody.
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Hello there. Thank you.
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KEVIN SMITH: I rememberwhen we finally got HBO
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in our neck of the woods,
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and they announced
Carlin at Carnegie.
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It was so early in the days
of HBO and having cable
323
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that we didn't have
the terminology for it.
324
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My father one day
came in to me and he goes,
325
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"George Carlin is going to be
telling jokes
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on HBO for over an hour."
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I'd like to begin our show
with a prayer.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
329
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A little prayer
that I wrote myself.
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Our Father who art in Heaven
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and to the republic
for which it stands.
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(LAUGHS)
333
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Please God, let me
do a good show tonight.
334
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-Don't let me be an asshole.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
335
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Don't let anyone yell,
"too late."
336
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
337
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Let the people
really enjoy my jokes tonight.
338
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Let me arrive safely
back at my hotel.
339
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Help me find some shoes
I really like.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
341
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Help me also to find
a nymphomaniac coke connection
342
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who owns a Ferrari dealership.
343
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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KEVIN: Nobody was allowedto curse in our house,
345
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but George Carlin was allowed.
346
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And when he was laughing
with George Carlin,
347
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Dad went away
and there was Don Smith,
348
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some motherfucker I didn't know,
349
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but then my mother fucked.
You know?
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So in those moments,
I really got to see
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who he was,
and what he found funny.
352
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I was, uh, gonna say to you,
353
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in fact, I'm going to
say that I was awfully nervous
354
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and a little tight too.
355
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I guess that's the same thing,
you know.
356
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I'm just glad to be home
and I'm glad to be...
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(VOCALIZING) ...in New York
and back in the borough...
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-(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
-...and saying, "Hello!
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How are you?"
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This is my office.
That's what it is, my office.
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Let's face it.
If this is my job,
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shit, this has gotta be
my office.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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GEORGE: Actually, this is
just a place for my stuff.
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It's all you need, really
is a place for your stuff.
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That's what life's all about,
when you think about it,
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trying to find a place
to keep your stuff.
368
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Everybody's got to have
a little place
369
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to keep their stuff.
That's why you have pockets.
370
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That's why you have
glove compartments.
371
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That's why they have lockers
at the bus station.
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That's all your house is,
really, when you think about it.
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That's all your house is,
it's a place for your stuff.
374
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Hey, if you didn't have
so much goddamn stuff,
375
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-you wouldn't need a house.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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GEORGE: Sometimes,
you go to someone else's house,
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first thing you notice
in someone else's house
378
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is you don't quite feel
a 100 percent at home.
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You know why?
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-No room for your stuff.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
381
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Someone else's shit
is on the table.
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Have you noticed
that their stuff is shit
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-and your shit is stuff?
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING)
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-"Get it off!"
-(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
385
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"Get that shit off of there
and let me put my stuff down."
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JERRY SEINFELD:
A place for my stuff
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is highly intellectual
if you look at the skill level,
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the brainpower it takes
to break that down.
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That is, you know, I don't know,
maybe to some comedians,
390
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that's just a...
observational comedy bit.
391
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To me, it's the elevation
of the ordinary
392
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and the disassembling
of the ordinary.
393
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And that's... There's no better
example of that than that bit.
394
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In essence, it seems like this
light-hearted,
395
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superficial analysis
of, like, the way people value
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their own belongings
397
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and how they display them
and those types of things.
398
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But, "My shit is stuff,
and your stuff is shit"
399
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really is the through-line
400
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for the lack of empathy
of people.
401
00:18:28,042 --> 00:18:30,250
Like, even when you think
about cancel culture,
402
00:18:30,334 --> 00:18:33,584
things like that,
"My opinion is valid
403
00:18:33,667 --> 00:18:36,292
but your opinion
is cancel culture and bullshit,"
404
00:18:36,375 --> 00:18:41,751
like, "My thoughts are stuff
and your thoughts are shit."
405
00:18:41,834 --> 00:18:43,959
And it's just this little bit
that he did
406
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on shit you put on your dresser.
407
00:18:48,042 --> 00:18:49,959
-Thank you very much. Goodnight.
-(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
408
00:18:50,042 --> 00:18:51,709
And I hope I see you
another time.
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Good night, all.
Have a good time, you. Bye-bye.
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-(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
-Thank you.
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-Thank you very much.
-JERRY: After the show,
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George was in tears
in the dressing room.
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See you later.
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00:19:03,459 --> 00:19:04,876
JERRY: Because he thought,"Oh, it could have been
415
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so much better
if I could've had two shows."
416
00:19:07,709 --> 00:19:09,167
"There were so many
little things
417
00:19:09,250 --> 00:19:11,292
that I could have changed."
418
00:19:11,375 --> 00:19:14,500
But the show came out
and it exploded.
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♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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JERRY: And that'swhat got it going again.
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GEORGE: Hello, good morning.How are you?
422
00:19:19,751 --> 00:19:22,500
What's going on?
What's new? What's happening?
423
00:19:22,584 --> 00:19:24,375
Good evening. Hello.
How is it going?
424
00:19:24,459 --> 00:19:26,417
And what the fuck's
new with you?
425
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
426
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JERRY: But he still was the guywhose back
427
00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,417
is up against the wall
with the government.
428
00:19:32,500 --> 00:19:35,042
And I used to get a call
every Tuesday
429
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from this guy at the IRS,
430
00:19:37,042 --> 00:19:39,250
"How did we do
over the weekend?"
431
00:19:39,334 --> 00:19:41,125
I think a lot of you know
that I've been through
432
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-several changes in my career.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
433
00:19:43,334 --> 00:19:44,584
JERRY: He couldn't catch up.
434
00:19:44,667 --> 00:19:46,417
I'm just hoping
you'll hang in there
435
00:19:46,500 --> 00:19:48,417
with me one more time.
436
00:19:48,500 --> 00:19:50,083
A lot of comedians
tell you what they did.
437
00:19:50,167 --> 00:19:51,751
Well, you know, I went--
I was down...
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00:19:51,834 --> 00:19:53,334
HBO fed the box office
439
00:19:53,417 --> 00:19:54,375
all across the country.
440
00:19:54,459 --> 00:19:55,542
You can tell by listening,
441
00:19:55,626 --> 00:19:58,209
this guy has never been
near a psychiatrist.
442
00:19:58,292 --> 00:20:01,792
So, I was able to keep touring,
and earn money.
443
00:20:01,876 --> 00:20:03,542
If I tell you
something happened,
444
00:20:03,626 --> 00:20:06,250
-it fucking happened, okay?
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
445
00:20:06,918 --> 00:20:08,209
GEORGE: And slowly,
446
00:20:08,292 --> 00:20:11,125
I was just learning
how to produce more material,
447
00:20:11,209 --> 00:20:13,375
because I had a need,
I had to stay out there.
448
00:20:13,459 --> 00:20:14,584
Have you ever been
talking to someone
449
00:20:14,667 --> 00:20:16,876
and a little bit of spit
flies off your tongue...
450
00:20:16,959 --> 00:20:17,918
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
451
00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,459
...and lands
right on the man's nose?
452
00:20:20,542 --> 00:20:22,250
Do you ever pour glue on a bird?
453
00:20:22,334 --> 00:20:23,792
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
454
00:20:23,876 --> 00:20:26,292
Of course not.
You don't have to.
455
00:20:26,375 --> 00:20:27,626
You ever been
sitting in the movies?
456
00:20:27,709 --> 00:20:28,959
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
457
00:20:29,042 --> 00:20:31,959
GEORGE: But I wasn't reallygoing anywhere in my thinking.
458
00:20:32,042 --> 00:20:35,000
Here's something you don't know.
I never fucked a ten,
459
00:20:35,083 --> 00:20:37,250
but one night,
I fucked five twos.
460
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
461
00:20:38,876 --> 00:20:41,250
GEORGE: I had to find my voice.
462
00:20:41,334 --> 00:20:45,250
Some guys will fuck anybody.
Not me. Not anymore.
463
00:20:45,334 --> 00:20:47,459
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
464
00:20:47,542 --> 00:20:50,083
Not since herpes and AIDS
are going around.
465
00:20:50,167 --> 00:20:51,792
In fact,
just to be on the safe side,
466
00:20:51,876 --> 00:20:54,000
I'm not even
jerking off anymore.
467
00:20:54,083 --> 00:20:55,083
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
468
00:20:55,167 --> 00:20:56,834
Well, I don't know
where I've been.
469
00:20:56,918 --> 00:20:58,667
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
470
00:21:01,751 --> 00:21:04,876
KELLY: He was a road comictill the day he died.
471
00:21:04,959 --> 00:21:08,083
It was his art form.
It's how he made his living.
472
00:21:08,167 --> 00:21:11,918
And he had an enormous amount
of financial pressure.
473
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,292
So he really had no choice.
474
00:21:14,375 --> 00:21:16,626
Because the IRS threatened
to take their house away
475
00:21:16,709 --> 00:21:19,125
all the time.
That was the leverage.
476
00:21:19,209 --> 00:21:21,751
And that house was everything
to my mother.
477
00:21:21,834 --> 00:21:23,334
And then my mom was alone
all the time.
478
00:21:23,417 --> 00:21:25,125
She didn't have
her life partner.
479
00:21:25,209 --> 00:21:26,667
She didn't have her guy.
480
00:21:26,751 --> 00:21:27,751
And she was like,
481
00:21:27,834 --> 00:21:29,209
"You need to
figure this out differently
482
00:21:29,292 --> 00:21:31,792
because we need to
have a life together."
483
00:21:31,876 --> 00:21:34,000
So they started
going out on dates
484
00:21:34,083 --> 00:21:35,709
and having lunches together.
485
00:21:35,792 --> 00:21:39,083
And then he actually began
taking vacations.
486
00:21:39,167 --> 00:21:40,834
GEORGE: I'm coming inon you now.
487
00:21:40,918 --> 00:21:42,918
-Zeroing in.
-I am too.
488
00:21:44,375 --> 00:21:46,209
GEORGE: Just perfect.
489
00:21:47,375 --> 00:21:48,459
Brenda.
490
00:21:49,542 --> 00:21:50,709
What?
491
00:21:52,459 --> 00:21:54,500
GEORGE:
Looks great. What a good shot.
492
00:21:59,459 --> 00:22:03,667
KELLY: When all of the noiseof the drugs and alcohol left
493
00:22:03,751 --> 00:22:07,167
and all of the noise
of the career stuff...
494
00:22:07,250 --> 00:22:08,292
GEORGE: Hey, Brenda.
495
00:22:09,751 --> 00:22:11,000
KELLY:
...there was this really nice
496
00:22:11,083 --> 00:22:12,626
little honeymoon period
for them,
497
00:22:12,709 --> 00:22:14,626
where they got to
know each other again.
498
00:22:17,125 --> 00:22:18,918
GEORGE: Okay, that's nice.
499
00:22:20,292 --> 00:22:22,042
KELLY: We had survived so much,
500
00:22:22,125 --> 00:22:25,083
and there was this
incredible love
501
00:22:25,167 --> 00:22:29,083
and an incredible adventure
we'd been through together.
502
00:22:29,167 --> 00:22:30,918
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
503
00:22:32,250 --> 00:22:34,083
KELLY: And the three of us,
504
00:22:34,167 --> 00:22:35,626
were the only people
on the planet
505
00:22:35,709 --> 00:22:37,042
who really fucking got it.
506
00:22:38,626 --> 00:22:43,209
GEORGE: I am very disturbedthat my actions in the 1970s
507
00:22:43,292 --> 00:22:45,667
concerning my money
and other behaviors
508
00:22:45,751 --> 00:22:46,959
have put me in the position
509
00:22:47,042 --> 00:22:49,042
where I have to be
away from Brenda.
510
00:22:49,125 --> 00:22:51,751
That Brenda is left alone
so much.
511
00:22:53,125 --> 00:22:55,542
I tell her, I say,
"I'm working on our retirement."
512
00:22:55,626 --> 00:22:57,334
I'm trying to
set some things in place
513
00:22:57,417 --> 00:22:59,209
"that will put us
ahead of this game."
514
00:22:59,292 --> 00:23:01,292
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
515
00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:10,042
PATTON OSWALT: Comedy isabout the present and the now.
516
00:23:10,125 --> 00:23:12,709
And then life changes
and you hopefully,
517
00:23:12,792 --> 00:23:15,792
as a comedian,
change and evolve with it.
518
00:23:15,876 --> 00:23:18,209
But if you solidify and calcify
and go,
519
00:23:18,292 --> 00:23:19,792
"This is as far
as I'm going to go
520
00:23:19,876 --> 00:23:21,834
and damn it I'm still going to
say these words,"
521
00:23:21,918 --> 00:23:23,876
then you're not engaging
with the world anymore.
522
00:23:23,959 --> 00:23:25,792
You're engaging
with a certain moment in time
523
00:23:25,876 --> 00:23:27,792
that you have decided
to live in forever.
524
00:23:27,876 --> 00:23:31,167
And George ran that risk
for a while in the '80s
525
00:23:31,250 --> 00:23:32,459
of becoming irrelevant.
526
00:23:33,709 --> 00:23:35,751
KLIPH NESTEROFF:
Carlin saw some of the trends
527
00:23:35,834 --> 00:23:37,375
that were happening in stand-up.
528
00:23:37,459 --> 00:23:38,626
Other comedians
are coming along,
529
00:23:38,709 --> 00:23:40,459
they're starting
to do laps around him.
530
00:23:40,542 --> 00:23:41,834
Comedy clubs are opening up.
531
00:23:41,918 --> 00:23:44,626
He paved the way,
but they're not booking him.
532
00:23:44,709 --> 00:23:45,918
He's getting older.
533
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,500
I'm like anybody else
on the planet
534
00:23:47,584 --> 00:23:48,667
I'm very moved
by world hunger...
535
00:23:48,751 --> 00:23:51,709
KLIPH: Sam Kinisonbursts onto the scene
536
00:23:52,918 --> 00:23:54,209
loud and angry.
537
00:23:54,292 --> 00:23:56,375
Yeah, I watch these things on TV
and I see those commercials
538
00:23:56,459 --> 00:23:59,167
and I look at it, I go,
"God, how cruel," you know.
539
00:23:59,250 --> 00:24:01,042
To see a little kid out there,
and I go, "Fuck,"
540
00:24:01,125 --> 00:24:03,792
I know the film crew could
give this kid a sandwich.
541
00:24:03,876 --> 00:24:05,125
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
542
00:24:05,209 --> 00:24:07,918
PATTON: So, part of Sam Kinisoninspired George Carlin,
543
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,125
but part of him
scared him a little bit.
544
00:24:10,209 --> 00:24:12,083
But, like any true artist,
545
00:24:12,167 --> 00:24:15,292
if something scares you,
you have to run towards it.
546
00:24:15,375 --> 00:24:16,751
There's a director
five feet away going,
547
00:24:16,834 --> 00:24:18,792
-"Don't feed him yet!"
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
548
00:24:18,876 --> 00:24:20,167
"Get that sandwich out of here!
549
00:24:20,250 --> 00:24:22,125
It doesn't work
unless he looks hungry!"
550
00:24:22,209 --> 00:24:24,042
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
551
00:24:24,125 --> 00:24:25,876
You want to send them something?
You want to help?
552
00:24:25,959 --> 00:24:29,083
Send them U-Hauls.
Send them U-Hauls, some luggage.
553
00:24:29,167 --> 00:24:30,834
Send them a guy
out there that goes, "Hey!"
554
00:24:30,918 --> 00:24:33,417
(CHUCKLES) "You know,
we've been driving out here
every day with your food
555
00:24:33,500 --> 00:24:36,500
for the last, I don't know,
34 years."
556
00:24:36,584 --> 00:24:38,459
"We've been driving out here
every day across the desert
557
00:24:38,542 --> 00:24:40,667
and it occurred to us
there wouldn't be world hunger
558
00:24:40,751 --> 00:24:43,125
if you people would live
where the food is!"
559
00:24:43,209 --> 00:24:44,334
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
560
00:24:44,417 --> 00:24:47,000
-"Get out of the desert!"
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
561
00:24:47,083 --> 00:24:50,500
"You understand that
you live in a fucking desert?"
562
00:24:50,584 --> 00:24:52,167
GEORGE:
I remember consciously thinking,
563
00:24:52,250 --> 00:24:56,000
"This motherfucker is good,
and he's got ideas."
564
00:24:56,083 --> 00:24:59,834
Without wanting to wipe him out,
I want to raise my level
565
00:24:59,918 --> 00:25:02,626
to where
I'm not lost in his dust.
566
00:25:02,709 --> 00:25:05,083
I've always been
very competitive about this.
567
00:25:05,167 --> 00:25:07,083
And I know that
it gave me the feeling
568
00:25:07,167 --> 00:25:09,959
of run a little faster,
work a little harder.
569
00:25:10,042 --> 00:25:12,751
You know, it's not accumulated
credits here, George.
570
00:25:12,834 --> 00:25:14,751
It's what did you do last week?
571
00:25:14,834 --> 00:25:17,167
♪ (PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
572
00:25:17,250 --> 00:25:20,083
(GEORGE VOCALIZING)
573
00:25:20,167 --> 00:25:22,250
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
574
00:25:27,459 --> 00:25:30,876
♪ Cherry, cherry pie... ♪
575
00:25:30,959 --> 00:25:34,876
The sanctity of life.
Abortion has always been wrong.
576
00:25:34,959 --> 00:25:36,250
It will always be wrong.
577
00:25:36,334 --> 00:25:41,042
GEORGE: And those Reagan yearsreally represented the rise
578
00:25:41,125 --> 00:25:43,292
to supremacy of darkness
in a way,
579
00:25:43,375 --> 00:25:45,667
the ascendancy of ignorance.
580
00:25:45,751 --> 00:25:49,292
Rock lyrics have turned from,
"I can't get no satisfaction"
581
00:25:49,375 --> 00:25:52,709
to, "I'm going to force you
at gunpoint to eat me alive."
582
00:25:52,792 --> 00:25:54,000
(SHOUTING, CHEERING)
583
00:25:54,083 --> 00:25:57,417
GEORGE: So, my reactionto the climate
584
00:25:57,500 --> 00:26:01,125
was one of storing up
ammunition.
585
00:26:01,209 --> 00:26:05,459
And the notes began to almost
be exclusively about issues.
586
00:26:05,542 --> 00:26:07,751
RUDOLPH GIULIANI:
The misuse of federal funds,
587
00:26:07,834 --> 00:26:09,751
the embezzlement of funds,
and the stealing...
588
00:26:09,834 --> 00:26:12,709
Shocked by the fact that
a former Secretary
589
00:26:12,792 --> 00:26:14,167
of the Treasury
of such high standing
590
00:26:14,250 --> 00:26:16,083
had failed to file
his tax returns. (SCOFFS)
591
00:26:16,167 --> 00:26:18,375
GEORGE: (SINGING)
♪ Like little Jack Horner ♪
592
00:26:18,459 --> 00:26:21,375
♪ Just sittin' in that corner ♪
593
00:26:21,459 --> 00:26:26,751
♪ Oh, he was eatin' his cherry
Cherry, cherry, cherry pie... ♪
594
00:26:26,834 --> 00:26:29,042
OLIVER NORTH:
Absolutely no recollection
595
00:26:29,125 --> 00:26:31,500
of destroying
any document which...
596
00:26:31,584 --> 00:26:33,709
A few months ago,
I told the American people
597
00:26:33,792 --> 00:26:35,959
I did not
trade arms for hostages.
598
00:26:36,042 --> 00:26:39,500
My heart, to my best intentions,
still tell me that's true.
599
00:26:39,584 --> 00:26:41,209
GEORGE: So now, I said,I'm beginning to find
600
00:26:41,292 --> 00:26:45,542
my own way to say these things
and to let loose.
601
00:26:46,709 --> 00:26:48,959
My mind wanted now
to produce this other stuff.
602
00:26:49,042 --> 00:26:50,375
My mind just called
all the shots.
603
00:26:50,459 --> 00:26:53,375
My mind and heart said,
"This is what we're doing now."
604
00:26:53,459 --> 00:26:55,500
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
605
00:26:56,375 --> 00:27:01,751
Hello, Union City, New Jersey!
606
00:27:03,584 --> 00:27:05,792
Without any further ado,
607
00:27:05,876 --> 00:27:07,834
it gives me
a great deal of pleasure
608
00:27:07,918 --> 00:27:11,959
to introduce a gentleman
who needs no introduction.
609
00:27:12,959 --> 00:27:15,751
(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
610
00:27:15,834 --> 00:27:18,209
BILL BURR: In 1988,one of the guys I worked with
611
00:27:18,292 --> 00:27:20,876
was into stand-up.
And we heard on the radio
612
00:27:20,959 --> 00:27:24,500
that they were advertising
George Carlin.
613
00:27:24,584 --> 00:27:26,542
So we ended up
going to the show.
614
00:27:26,626 --> 00:27:28,834
We got tickets because
we were going to go there
615
00:27:28,918 --> 00:27:30,500
to actually,
I can't believe this,
616
00:27:30,959 --> 00:27:32,792
to laugh at him.
617
00:27:32,876 --> 00:27:34,417
That he was this older comic
618
00:27:34,500 --> 00:27:36,792
who is still doing all these
old bits that we heard
619
00:27:36,876 --> 00:27:38,667
and I remember the whole week,
he just kept going,
620
00:27:38,751 --> 00:27:40,417
"More stuff!"
And I kinda bought into it.
621
00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:42,334
-(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
-Hey there, we doing all right?
622
00:27:42,417 --> 00:27:44,542
Thank you. Thank you, everybody.
623
00:27:44,626 --> 00:27:46,167
BILL:
And George Carlin came out...
624
00:27:46,250 --> 00:27:48,250
Hello. Hiya. Thank you.
625
00:27:48,918 --> 00:27:50,292
...with like a howitzer.
626
00:27:50,375 --> 00:27:53,083
I really haven't seen this
many people in one place
627
00:27:53,167 --> 00:27:54,834
since they took
the group photographs
628
00:27:54,918 --> 00:27:56,751
of all the criminals
and lawbreakers
629
00:27:56,834 --> 00:27:58,792
in the Ronald Reagan
administration.
630
00:27:58,876 --> 00:28:00,876
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
-BILL: It was like...
631
00:28:00,959 --> 00:28:03,417
Two-hundred and twenty-five
of them so far.
632
00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:04,542
"...Who is this guy?"
633
00:28:04,626 --> 00:28:05,751
See, that's what
you got to remember.
634
00:28:05,834 --> 00:28:07,375
This is the Ronald Reagan
administration
635
00:28:07,459 --> 00:28:10,959
we're talking about. These are
the law-and-order people.
636
00:28:11,042 --> 00:28:13,375
These are the people
who are against street crime.
637
00:28:13,459 --> 00:28:15,209
They want to put
street criminals in jail
638
00:28:15,292 --> 00:28:17,792
to make life safer
for the business criminals.
639
00:28:17,876 --> 00:28:19,375
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
640
00:28:19,459 --> 00:28:21,375
They're against street crime.
641
00:28:21,459 --> 00:28:26,000
(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
642
00:28:26,083 --> 00:28:27,584
Keep in mind,
these Reagan people
643
00:28:27,667 --> 00:28:30,542
are the ones that were going to
get government off our backs.
644
00:28:30,626 --> 00:28:31,918
Remember that?
That was the rhetoric
645
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:33,375
of the 1980 campaign.
646
00:28:33,459 --> 00:28:35,042
We'll get government
off your backs
647
00:28:35,125 --> 00:28:37,250
and out of your lives.
Yeah, but they still want to
648
00:28:37,334 --> 00:28:38,959
tell you what magazines
you can read.
649
00:28:39,042 --> 00:28:40,292
And they still want to tell you
650
00:28:40,375 --> 00:28:41,959
what rock lyrics
you can listen to.
651
00:28:42,042 --> 00:28:44,459
And they still want to force
your kids to pray in school.
652
00:28:44,542 --> 00:28:47,459
And they still want to tell you
what you can say on the radio.
653
00:28:47,542 --> 00:28:50,375
So, these Reagan people,
these right wingers, in general,
654
00:28:50,459 --> 00:28:52,209
they're against homosexuality.
655
00:28:52,292 --> 00:28:55,250
They're against pornography.
They're against sex education.
656
00:28:55,334 --> 00:28:56,459
They're against abortion.
657
00:28:56,542 --> 00:28:58,250
Yeah, they're going to
get government off your back,
658
00:28:58,334 --> 00:29:00,459
but they're going to tell you
how to live your sex life.
659
00:29:00,542 --> 00:29:01,459
And let me ask you this,
660
00:29:01,542 --> 00:29:03,292
how would they know
anything about it?
661
00:29:03,375 --> 00:29:04,375
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
662
00:29:04,459 --> 00:29:06,626
Have you ever
taken a look at those people?
663
00:29:06,709 --> 00:29:07,751
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
664
00:29:07,834 --> 00:29:09,500
No wonder they're afraid
of their bodies.
665
00:29:09,584 --> 00:29:11,209
Take a look at them.
666
00:29:11,292 --> 00:29:13,584
Doesn't it strike you
as mildly ironic
667
00:29:13,667 --> 00:29:15,542
that most of the people
who are against abortion
668
00:29:15,626 --> 00:29:18,542
are people you wouldn't
want to fuck in the first place?
669
00:29:18,626 --> 00:29:20,167
Does that strike you
a little strange?
670
00:29:20,250 --> 00:29:21,834
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, CHEERING)
671
00:29:26,751 --> 00:29:28,000
Hey, I'm the first one to say
672
00:29:28,083 --> 00:29:32,125
it's a great country,
but it's a strange culture.
673
00:29:32,209 --> 00:29:34,584
This is a country
where gun store owners
674
00:29:34,667 --> 00:29:36,709
are given a list
of stolen credit cards,
675
00:29:36,792 --> 00:29:39,083
but not a list
of criminals and maniacs.
676
00:29:39,167 --> 00:29:40,209
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
677
00:29:40,292 --> 00:29:42,709
And now they're thinking
about banning toy guns
678
00:29:42,792 --> 00:29:45,292
and they're going to
keep the fucking real ones!
679
00:29:45,375 --> 00:29:50,751
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, CHEERING)
680
00:29:54,417 --> 00:29:56,500
BILL: I would say it waslike a Miles Davis thing.
681
00:29:57,542 --> 00:30:00,375
George has like, one,
two, three, four,
682
00:30:00,459 --> 00:30:04,792
five distinct periods of growth
683
00:30:04,876 --> 00:30:08,375
where he would leave a segment
of his audience behind.
684
00:30:08,459 --> 00:30:11,125
Like-- When he was, like,
working clean from a team
685
00:30:11,209 --> 00:30:12,792
to then becoming
the counterculture guy,
686
00:30:12,876 --> 00:30:14,042
to then being that guy
in the '80s,
687
00:30:14,125 --> 00:30:15,959
then that dude in the '90s,
and each time,
688
00:30:16,042 --> 00:30:17,125
it was like a boa constrictor.
689
00:30:17,209 --> 00:30:19,000
It just got more pointed
and more like,
690
00:30:19,083 --> 00:30:21,000
"Fuck, man. This guy is scaring
the shit out of me.
691
00:30:21,083 --> 00:30:22,209
Where's this country going?"
692
00:30:22,292 --> 00:30:26,250
Um, the courage that
that takes to do that,
693
00:30:26,334 --> 00:30:28,542
that is like, "Hey, man,
I'm going in this direction."
694
00:30:28,626 --> 00:30:30,626
You either come along with me
or you don't.
695
00:30:30,709 --> 00:30:32,375
And I don't give a shit
if there's 3,000
696
00:30:32,459 --> 00:30:33,792
or three people
listening to this.
697
00:30:33,876 --> 00:30:34,918
This is what I believe.
698
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,709
"This is what I want to say
and I'm saying it."
699
00:30:36,792 --> 00:30:40,709
(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
700
00:30:41,584 --> 00:30:43,417
JERRY: He developed a style
701
00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:45,709
and he started talking
about things
702
00:30:45,792 --> 00:30:49,626
that were more serious
and more meaningful.
703
00:30:49,709 --> 00:30:53,250
First, he would come out
with a hard joke
704
00:30:53,334 --> 00:30:54,375
right in the beginning.
705
00:30:54,459 --> 00:30:56,918
Don't you think
it's just a little bit strange
706
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,751
that Ronald Reagan
had an operation on his asshole
707
00:30:59,834 --> 00:31:03,209
and George Bush had an operation
on his middle finger, huh?
708
00:31:03,292 --> 00:31:04,709
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
709
00:31:04,792 --> 00:31:06,125
He always had something
710
00:31:06,209 --> 00:31:07,709
where he used to call
for the audience.
711
00:31:07,792 --> 00:31:09,167
You know,
"We're going to blow up America,
712
00:31:09,250 --> 00:31:11,334
but now,
here are a few fart jokes."
713
00:31:11,417 --> 00:31:12,542
They were always in there.
714
00:31:12,626 --> 00:31:17,042
Have you ever been
in a serious social situation
715
00:31:17,125 --> 00:31:18,626
when you suddenly realize
716
00:31:18,709 --> 00:31:22,042
you have to pull the underwear
out of the crack in your ass?
717
00:31:22,125 --> 00:31:26,459
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
718
00:31:28,792 --> 00:31:32,500
"You take this woman
to be your lawful wedded wife?"
719
00:31:32,584 --> 00:31:34,959
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
720
00:31:35,042 --> 00:31:40,167
"Huh? Who? Her? Oh, hell yeah."
721
00:31:41,334 --> 00:31:43,626
JERRY: When it gotabout 20 minutes out,
722
00:31:43,709 --> 00:31:45,918
he had a piece
that was a hammer.
723
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,083
And it was what he was
really doing the show for.
724
00:31:49,167 --> 00:31:51,042
Sanctity of life.
You believe in it?
725
00:31:51,125 --> 00:31:53,417
Personally, I think
it's a bunch of shit.
726
00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:54,584
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
727
00:31:54,667 --> 00:31:57,834
Well, I mean, life is sacred?
Who said so? God?
728
00:31:57,918 --> 00:31:59,626
Hey, if you read history,
you realize that
729
00:31:59,709 --> 00:32:02,125
God is one of the leading causes
of death.
730
00:32:02,209 --> 00:32:03,667
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
731
00:32:03,751 --> 00:32:06,417
Has been for thousands of years.
732
00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:08,751
Hindus, Muslims,
Jews, Christians,
733
00:32:08,834 --> 00:32:10,334
all taking turns
killing each other
734
00:32:10,417 --> 00:32:12,500
because God told them
it was a good idea.
735
00:32:12,584 --> 00:32:13,709
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
736
00:32:13,792 --> 00:32:16,083
"The sword of God,
the blood of the lamb,
737
00:32:16,167 --> 00:32:19,083
vengeance is mine."
Millions of dead motherfuckers.
738
00:32:19,167 --> 00:32:21,083
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
-Millions of dead motherfuckers
739
00:32:21,167 --> 00:32:22,667
all because they gave
the wrong answer
740
00:32:22,751 --> 00:32:24,918
to the God question.
741
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,125
"You believe in God?"
"No." (BLOWS) Dead.
742
00:32:28,209 --> 00:32:29,375
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
743
00:32:29,459 --> 00:32:31,209
"You believe in God?" "Yes."
744
00:32:31,292 --> 00:32:34,292
"You believe in my God?" "No."
(BLOWS) Dead.
745
00:32:34,375 --> 00:32:37,083
"My God has a bigger dick
than your God."
746
00:32:37,167 --> 00:32:38,083
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
747
00:32:38,167 --> 00:32:40,709
We watched the arc
of a creative person
748
00:32:40,792 --> 00:32:42,542
that just stayed with it
749
00:32:42,626 --> 00:32:43,667
until they broke through
750
00:32:43,751 --> 00:32:46,667
to that next evolution
that he went through,
751
00:32:46,751 --> 00:32:48,709
because it felt like,
"Yes, I'm a--"
752
00:32:48,792 --> 00:32:50,626
"You know me as this goofy guy
753
00:32:50,709 --> 00:32:52,375
that is a wonderful wordsmith
754
00:32:52,459 --> 00:32:56,000
and I can always find ways
to say things, and I'm now,
755
00:32:56,083 --> 00:33:00,375
I have been pushed to the point,
by what I have seen in my years,
756
00:33:00,459 --> 00:33:02,542
where none of that
is there anymore,
757
00:33:02,626 --> 00:33:06,459
"and I need to tell you
exactly what is going on."
758
00:33:06,542 --> 00:33:08,375
We can't get rid of this
war mentality
759
00:33:08,459 --> 00:33:11,000
from our public life.
We got a war on poverty,
760
00:33:11,083 --> 00:33:15,375
war on crime, war on cancer,
war on litter, war on drugs.
761
00:33:15,459 --> 00:33:16,667
Did you ever notice
we don't have
762
00:33:16,751 --> 00:33:18,083
a war on homelessness?
763
00:33:18,167 --> 00:33:20,250
No war on homelessness.
You know why?
764
00:33:20,334 --> 00:33:22,542
-(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-You know why?
765
00:33:22,626 --> 00:33:25,125
I'll tell you why,
because there's no money in it.
766
00:33:25,209 --> 00:33:26,918
There's no money
in that problem.
767
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,209
Nobody stands to get rich
off of that problem.
768
00:33:29,292 --> 00:33:30,584
You find a solution
to homelessness
769
00:33:30,667 --> 00:33:32,083
where the businessmen
and the politicians
770
00:33:32,167 --> 00:33:34,125
can steal a couple
of million dollars each,
771
00:33:34,209 --> 00:33:35,375
you'll see
the streets of America
772
00:33:35,459 --> 00:33:36,918
begin to clear up pretty fast.
773
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,083
It seemed he had
another goal in mind,
774
00:33:39,167 --> 00:33:41,292
which was to push your thinking.
775
00:33:41,375 --> 00:33:44,375
These people need physical,
tangible structures,
776
00:33:44,459 --> 00:33:46,834
low-cost housing. But
where are you going to put it?
777
00:33:46,918 --> 00:33:48,667
I think that was
the biggest thing
778
00:33:48,751 --> 00:33:51,209
that attracted me to him,
especially young,
779
00:33:51,292 --> 00:33:52,584
because your critical thinking
780
00:33:52,667 --> 00:33:54,959
is starting to really, like,
tick up a bunch.
781
00:33:55,042 --> 00:33:56,334
And you're starting to
really be like,
782
00:33:56,417 --> 00:33:58,083
"Why do I have to
take off my hat in class?
783
00:33:58,167 --> 00:33:59,626
What's that have to do
with me learning?
784
00:33:59,709 --> 00:34:01,125
It's not blocking my brain."
785
00:34:01,209 --> 00:34:03,000
We got a thing
in this country called NIMBY.
786
00:34:03,083 --> 00:34:05,792
N-I-M-B-Y, "Not In My Backyard."
787
00:34:05,876 --> 00:34:07,459
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
-That's what they call it.
788
00:34:07,542 --> 00:34:09,167
People don't want
anything near them,
789
00:34:09,250 --> 00:34:11,125
especially if it might
help somebody else.
790
00:34:11,209 --> 00:34:12,375
To then be introduced
791
00:34:12,459 --> 00:34:14,667
to another, like,
critical thinker who's like,
792
00:34:14,751 --> 00:34:16,918
"Hey, society,
what's up with these rules?"
793
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,500
"What's up with these standards?
What's up with trying to
794
00:34:19,584 --> 00:34:21,626
inflict this stuff
on everybody?"
795
00:34:21,709 --> 00:34:23,292
Once you hear
another perspective,
796
00:34:23,375 --> 00:34:24,500
you can't unhear it,
797
00:34:24,584 --> 00:34:27,584
so you do have to then decide
who you are after that.
798
00:34:27,667 --> 00:34:29,083
It's just the facts.
799
00:34:29,167 --> 00:34:31,792
Well, I got an idea where we can
put some low-cost housing,
800
00:34:31,876 --> 00:34:32,918
golf courses.
801
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,626
This is just what we need.
Golf courses.
802
00:34:35,709 --> 00:34:38,918
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING)
-Plenty of good land.
803
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,959
Plenty of good land
in nice neighborhoods,
804
00:34:41,042 --> 00:34:42,709
land that's devoted now
to a meaningless,
805
00:34:42,792 --> 00:34:45,000
mindless activity
engaged in primarily
806
00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:46,918
by White well-to-do
male businessmen
807
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,626
who use the game to make deals
to get together
808
00:34:48,709 --> 00:34:50,959
to carve the country up
a little finer among themselves.
809
00:34:51,042 --> 00:34:53,292
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
-Golf is an arrogant--
810
00:34:53,375 --> 00:34:56,000
an arrogant, elitist game
811
00:34:56,083 --> 00:34:59,000
and it takes up entirely
too much room in this country.
812
00:34:59,083 --> 00:35:01,125
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING)
-Entirely too much room.
813
00:35:01,209 --> 00:35:04,083
Listen to me. You know
much room it takes up?
814
00:35:04,167 --> 00:35:07,042
Seventeen thousand golf courses,
about 150 acres each.
815
00:35:07,125 --> 00:35:10,167
That's three million acres.
That's 4,800 square miles.
816
00:35:10,250 --> 00:35:12,584
Two Rhode Islands and a Delaware
you could build for the homeless
817
00:35:12,667 --> 00:35:14,000
on the land
that's currently devoted
818
00:35:14,083 --> 00:35:17,417
to this meaningless, mindless,
arrogant, elitist, racist game.
819
00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:20,667
-(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
-Racist game, racist game.
820
00:35:21,542 --> 00:35:22,959
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
821
00:35:23,042 --> 00:35:25,083
GEORGE:
The reason I believe in blunt,
822
00:35:25,167 --> 00:35:29,542
almost violent presentation
of my ideas these days,
823
00:35:29,626 --> 00:35:33,292
is because what is happening to
everyone...
824
00:35:33,375 --> 00:35:35,667
it is not gentle,
it is not subtle.
825
00:35:35,751 --> 00:35:38,834
It is direct, hard, and violent
826
00:35:38,918 --> 00:35:40,834
what is being done
to the lives of people.
827
00:35:40,918 --> 00:35:45,584
The real violence goes on
every day unheard, unreported,
828
00:35:45,667 --> 00:35:50,542
and it is not sufficient
to have a clever riposte,
829
00:35:50,626 --> 00:35:52,250
a clever line, huh?
830
00:35:52,334 --> 00:35:55,334
"Fuck you, cocksuckers,"
is my approach.
831
00:35:55,417 --> 00:35:57,792
The bloodiest,
most brutal wars fought,
832
00:35:57,876 --> 00:36:01,125
all based on religious hatred,
which is fine with me.
833
00:36:01,209 --> 00:36:03,834
Any time a bunch of Holy people
wanna kill each other...
834
00:36:03,918 --> 00:36:06,083
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
835
00:36:26,834 --> 00:36:28,459
GEORGE:
One of the problems of Americans
836
00:36:28,542 --> 00:36:30,500
is they can't face reality.
837
00:36:30,584 --> 00:36:32,250
And that's why when it comes
crashing down,
838
00:36:32,334 --> 00:36:34,667
no one's going to be prepared
to handle it,
839
00:36:34,751 --> 00:36:36,167
because they're not
used to it anymore.
840
00:36:36,250 --> 00:36:37,542
I mean,
everything is glossed over.
841
00:36:37,626 --> 00:36:39,375
"Oh, that's not happening."
Feel-good presidents.
842
00:36:39,459 --> 00:36:40,876
"That's not happening.
That's not happening.
843
00:36:40,959 --> 00:36:42,709
Let's make believe
this isn't happening."
844
00:36:42,792 --> 00:36:44,834
And suddenly,
we're going to have to face it.
845
00:36:50,584 --> 00:36:51,751
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
846
00:36:51,834 --> 00:36:55,459
I remember one time
Carlin said to me...
847
00:36:55,542 --> 00:36:58,042
"I'm not in show business.
I'm a comedian."
848
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,834
It's like,
"Oh, this is gangster."
849
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,083
I took it to mean
that comedians,
850
00:37:06,876 --> 00:37:08,626
you know, we're thinkers,
851
00:37:08,709 --> 00:37:12,292
but when you think about,
you know, the history of man,
852
00:37:12,375 --> 00:37:15,000
you know,
man used to love philosophers.
853
00:37:15,083 --> 00:37:17,209
We don't really have
philosophers anymore,
854
00:37:17,292 --> 00:37:18,918
but we have comedians.
855
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,042
So, Carlin encompassed
all those things.
856
00:37:22,125 --> 00:37:23,918
That's what he meant.
857
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,834
Like, "This is what we do.
This is the life we've chosen."
858
00:37:27,918 --> 00:37:31,584
We're, you know, kind of
a secret society, in a sense.
859
00:37:31,667 --> 00:37:35,000
I think... I was talking
to Seinfeld last night
860
00:37:35,083 --> 00:37:37,709
and it's kind of like
the same thing.
861
00:37:38,459 --> 00:37:41,667
Okay, fine. Fine.
862
00:37:41,751 --> 00:37:46,876
You want the comedian
to be your lens on society?
863
00:37:46,959 --> 00:37:49,959
Go. Enjoy it. But for me...
864
00:37:51,918 --> 00:37:53,000
I've never heard a comic bit
865
00:37:53,083 --> 00:37:55,334
that changed my opinion
on anything.
866
00:37:55,417 --> 00:37:59,292
Except a great bit changes
my opinion of that comedian.
867
00:37:59,375 --> 00:38:01,167
♪ (MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
868
00:38:03,125 --> 00:38:05,626
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
869
00:38:08,459 --> 00:38:10,751
Hey, look out there.
It's these meaty guys.
870
00:38:10,834 --> 00:38:12,125
Wayne! How ya doing, Wayne?
871
00:38:13,709 --> 00:38:14,751
People sometimes say to me,
872
00:38:14,834 --> 00:38:16,584
"Are you trying to
make people think?"
873
00:38:16,667 --> 00:38:20,459
"I say, "No, no. That would be
the kiss of death.
874
00:38:20,542 --> 00:38:23,209
What I want to do is
to let them know I'm thinking."
875
00:38:25,125 --> 00:38:27,000
You have to be
somewhat of an egotist
876
00:38:27,083 --> 00:38:28,542
to stand up
all your life and say,
877
00:38:28,626 --> 00:38:30,459
"Listen to me.
Please pay attention."
878
00:38:30,542 --> 00:38:33,042
And that's fine. I can
live with that about myself.
879
00:38:33,125 --> 00:38:35,709
But if I'm going to
call attention to myself,
880
00:38:35,792 --> 00:38:37,167
I want to show them something
881
00:38:37,250 --> 00:38:38,500
a little different
from time to time.
882
00:38:38,584 --> 00:38:42,667
I want to find a voice
that isn't like all the others.
883
00:38:42,751 --> 00:38:45,792
So I like to find out
where their line may be
884
00:38:45,876 --> 00:38:48,209
and deliberately cross it,
885
00:38:48,292 --> 00:38:50,000
and then make them glad
they came.
886
00:38:50,083 --> 00:38:52,083
Iraq, Panama, Grenada, Libya,
887
00:38:52,167 --> 00:38:53,751
you got some Brown people
in your country.
888
00:38:53,834 --> 00:38:58,083
Tell them to watch the fuck out
or we'll goddamn bomb them.
889
00:38:58,167 --> 00:39:00,918
(IMITATES EXPLOSIONS)
890
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,459
That's-- If they're laughing
891
00:39:02,542 --> 00:39:04,709
or at some point
when they extend the laugh,
892
00:39:04,792 --> 00:39:06,751
or they begin to applaud
one of those lines,
893
00:39:06,834 --> 00:39:08,667
I'll be filling that time
894
00:39:08,751 --> 00:39:09,918
by going...
(IMITATES EXPLOSIONS)
895
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,626
HOST:
If you were a new comic today,
896
00:39:11,709 --> 00:39:13,959
if you came along
right as you are right now,
897
00:39:14,042 --> 00:39:16,667
you had never made a record,
no one had ever heard of you.
898
00:39:16,751 --> 00:39:18,751
GEORGE:
I'd kill. I'd absolutely kill.
899
00:39:18,834 --> 00:39:21,542
I'm doing my very best work
right now.
900
00:39:21,626 --> 00:39:24,500
-(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
-Yeah. Okay.
901
00:39:25,417 --> 00:39:27,000
It's been a little while.
902
00:39:27,083 --> 00:39:28,709
It's been a little while
since I've been here,
903
00:39:28,792 --> 00:39:30,500
and a couple of things
have happened in that time.
904
00:39:30,584 --> 00:39:32,751
I'd like to talk a little bit
about the war
905
00:39:32,834 --> 00:39:35,167
-in the Persian Gulf.
-(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
906
00:39:35,250 --> 00:39:37,667
Big doings in the Persian Gulf.
907
00:39:37,751 --> 00:39:39,292
You know my favorite part
of that war?
908
00:39:39,375 --> 00:39:40,667
It's the first war we ever had
909
00:39:40,751 --> 00:39:43,083
that was on every channel
plus cable.
910
00:39:43,167 --> 00:39:44,375
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
911
00:39:44,459 --> 00:39:46,959
And the war got
good ratings too, didn't it?
912
00:39:47,042 --> 00:39:50,250
Got good ratings.
Well, we like war.
913
00:39:50,334 --> 00:39:53,459
We like war.
We're a war-like people.
914
00:39:53,542 --> 00:39:55,751
We like war
because we're good at it,
915
00:39:55,834 --> 00:39:56,959
and it's a good thing we are.
916
00:39:57,042 --> 00:39:59,292
We're not very good
at anything else anymore.
917
00:39:59,375 --> 00:40:02,250
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
-Huh? Can't build a decent car.
918
00:40:02,334 --> 00:40:05,500
Can't make a TV set
or a VCR worth a fuck.
919
00:40:05,584 --> 00:40:06,834
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
920
00:40:06,918 --> 00:40:09,292
Got no steel industry left.
Can't educate our young people.
921
00:40:09,375 --> 00:40:11,167
Can't get healthcare
to our old people,
922
00:40:11,250 --> 00:40:14,334
but we can bomb the shit
out of your country, all right.
923
00:40:14,417 --> 00:40:15,792
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, CHEERING)
924
00:40:15,876 --> 00:40:18,876
We can bomb the shit
out of your country, all right.
925
00:40:18,959 --> 00:40:22,000
-(CHEERING)
-(GEORGE IMITATING EXPLOSIONS)
926
00:40:22,083 --> 00:40:26,125
Especially, if your country
is full of Brown people.
927
00:40:26,209 --> 00:40:27,292
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
928
00:40:27,375 --> 00:40:30,375
Oh, we like that, don't we?
That's our hobby.
929
00:40:30,459 --> 00:40:34,000
That's our new job in the world,
bombing Brown people.
930
00:40:35,042 --> 00:40:36,959
Iraq, Panama, Grenada, Libya,
931
00:40:37,042 --> 00:40:38,626
you got some
Brown people in your country.
932
00:40:38,709 --> 00:40:40,667
Tell them to watch
the fuck out...
933
00:40:40,751 --> 00:40:44,626
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
-...or we'll goddamn bomb them.
934
00:40:44,709 --> 00:40:46,125
Well, when's the last
White people
935
00:40:46,209 --> 00:40:47,292
you can remember that we bombed?
936
00:40:47,375 --> 00:40:48,667
Can you remember
the last White...
937
00:40:48,751 --> 00:40:50,542
Can you remember
any White people
938
00:40:50,626 --> 00:40:51,584
we've ever bombed?
939
00:40:51,667 --> 00:40:53,292
The Germans,
those are the only ones,
940
00:40:53,375 --> 00:40:54,709
and that's only because
they were trying to
941
00:40:54,792 --> 00:40:57,417
-cut in on our action.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
942
00:40:57,500 --> 00:40:59,417
They wanted to
dominate the world.
943
00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:02,417
Bullshit,
that's our fucking job.
944
00:41:02,500 --> 00:41:05,083
-(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
-That's our fucking job!
945
00:41:05,667 --> 00:41:08,292
(IMITATES EXPLOSIONS)
946
00:41:11,042 --> 00:41:12,292
Well, you know,
Jammin' In New York,
947
00:41:12,375 --> 00:41:14,918
he always-- When he talked about
Jammin' In New York,
948
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,334
he said the reason
that it was so profound for him
949
00:41:18,417 --> 00:41:19,542
was that it was the first time
950
00:41:19,626 --> 00:41:21,250
that he felt like
he was a real writer.
951
00:41:21,334 --> 00:41:24,250
That show was a life changer
for me in 1992.
952
00:41:24,334 --> 00:41:28,167
It made me realize I was more
of an artist than a performer.
953
00:41:28,250 --> 00:41:30,250
You know, for another comedian
to hear that,
954
00:41:30,334 --> 00:41:33,125
it's like, "Wow. Okay, sure.
955
00:41:33,209 --> 00:41:36,167
Whatever you say, you weren't
a real writer until then. Okay."
956
00:41:36,250 --> 00:41:38,417
I'm a stand-up comic.
It's a vulgar art.
957
00:41:38,500 --> 00:41:40,334
It's the people's art.
I'll always be that.
958
00:41:40,417 --> 00:41:43,751
I'm nothing but a vulgar,
stand-up comedian performer,
959
00:41:43,834 --> 00:41:44,959
show business guy,
960
00:41:45,042 --> 00:41:46,918
but I'm a writer, too.
961
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,751
There's an artist at work
in here.
962
00:41:48,834 --> 00:41:51,209
There's an artist at work
alongside the performer,
963
00:41:51,292 --> 00:41:52,918
and that made me feel different.
964
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,918
Jammin' In New York
was the first time
965
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,834
that those values showed
in the piece called,
966
00:41:57,918 --> 00:42:00,125
The Planet is Fine.
The People Are Fucked.
967
00:42:00,209 --> 00:42:03,250
We're so self-important.
So self-important.
968
00:42:03,334 --> 00:42:06,500
Everybody's gotta save
something now. Save the trees.
969
00:42:06,584 --> 00:42:10,334
Save the bees. Save the whales.
Save those snails.
970
00:42:10,417 --> 00:42:11,626
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
971
00:42:11,709 --> 00:42:15,250
And the greatest arrogance
of all, save the planet. What?
972
00:42:15,334 --> 00:42:18,876
Are these fucking people
kidding me? Save the planet?
973
00:42:18,959 --> 00:42:21,209
We don't even know how to
take care of ourselves yet.
974
00:42:21,292 --> 00:42:23,250
We haven't learned how to care
for one another.
975
00:42:23,334 --> 00:42:25,459
We're going to save
the fucking planet?
976
00:42:25,542 --> 00:42:28,459
-(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
-I'm getting tired of that shit.
977
00:42:28,542 --> 00:42:35,125
Tired of that shit, tired.
I'm tired of fucking Earth Day.
978
00:42:35,209 --> 00:42:36,083
I'm tired of these
979
00:42:36,167 --> 00:42:38,292
self- righteous
environmentalists.
980
00:42:38,375 --> 00:42:40,500
These White bourgeois liberals
981
00:42:40,584 --> 00:42:42,250
who think the only thing wrong
with this country
982
00:42:42,334 --> 00:42:44,876
is there aren't enough
bicycle paths.
983
00:42:44,959 --> 00:42:48,083
People trying to make
the world safe for their Volvos.
984
00:42:48,167 --> 00:42:49,918
Besides, environmentalists
985
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,667
don't give a shit
about the planet.
986
00:42:51,751 --> 00:42:53,417
They don't care
about the planet.
987
00:42:53,500 --> 00:42:56,584
Not in the abstract, they don't.
Not in the abstract, they don't.
988
00:42:56,667 --> 00:42:57,918
You know what
they're interested in?
989
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,751
A clean place to live.
Their own habitat.
990
00:43:01,834 --> 00:43:03,375
They're worried that
someday in the future,
991
00:43:03,459 --> 00:43:05,918
they might be personally
inconvenienced.
992
00:43:06,042 --> 00:43:08,334
Narrow,
unenlightened self-interest
993
00:43:08,417 --> 00:43:09,459
doesn't impress me.
994
00:43:09,542 --> 00:43:12,584
Besides, there is nothing wrong
with the planet.
995
00:43:12,667 --> 00:43:15,709
Nothing wrong with the planet.
The planet is fine.
996
00:43:15,792 --> 00:43:18,584
-The people are fucked.
-(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
997
00:43:18,667 --> 00:43:22,792
Difference. Difference.
The planet is fine.
998
00:43:22,876 --> 00:43:26,125
Compared to the people,
the planet is doing great.
999
00:43:26,209 --> 00:43:27,959
It's been here four
and a half billion years.
1000
00:43:28,042 --> 00:43:29,375
Do you ever think
about the arithmetic?
1001
00:43:29,459 --> 00:43:32,334
The planet has been here
four and a half billion years.
1002
00:43:32,417 --> 00:43:36,626
We've been here what,
100,000? Maybe 200,000,
1003
00:43:36,709 --> 00:43:38,584
and we've only been engaged
in heavy industry
1004
00:43:38,667 --> 00:43:40,375
for a little over 200 years.
1005
00:43:40,459 --> 00:43:43,459
Two hundred years
versus four and a half billion,
1006
00:43:43,542 --> 00:43:47,334
and we have the conceit to think
that somehow we're a threat.
1007
00:43:47,417 --> 00:43:49,125
That somehow
we're going to put in jeopardy
1008
00:43:49,209 --> 00:43:51,209
this beautiful little
blue-green ball
1009
00:43:51,292 --> 00:43:53,375
that's just a-floating
around the sun.
1010
00:43:53,459 --> 00:43:56,250
The planet has been through
a lot worse than us.
1011
00:43:56,334 --> 00:43:59,209
Been through all kinds of things
worse than us.
1012
00:43:59,292 --> 00:44:02,167
Been through earthquakes,
volcanoes, plate tectonics,
1013
00:44:02,250 --> 00:44:05,334
continental drift, solar flares,
sunspots, magnetic storms,
1014
00:44:05,417 --> 00:44:07,375
the magnetic reversal
of the poles.
1015
00:44:07,459 --> 00:44:10,250
Hundreds of thousands of years
of bombardment by comets
1016
00:44:10,334 --> 00:44:13,542
and asteroids and meteors,
worldwide floods, tidal waves,
1017
00:44:13,626 --> 00:44:15,918
worldwide fires, erosion,
cosmic rays,
1018
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,209
recurring ice ages and we think
some plastic bags...
1019
00:44:20,292 --> 00:44:21,500
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING)
1020
00:44:21,584 --> 00:44:25,667
...and some aluminum cans
are going to make a difference?
1021
00:44:25,751 --> 00:44:30,167
-(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-The planet... the planet...
1022
00:44:33,250 --> 00:44:37,918
the planet isn't going anywhere.
We are.
1023
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:38,918
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1024
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,584
We're going away.
Pack your shit, folks.
1025
00:44:42,667 --> 00:44:45,292
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
-We're going away
1026
00:44:45,375 --> 00:44:47,250
and we won't leave
much of a trace either.
1027
00:44:47,334 --> 00:44:51,125
Thank God for that.
Maybe a little Styrofoam, maybe.
1028
00:44:51,209 --> 00:44:53,626
A little Styrofoam.
Planet will be here.
1029
00:44:53,709 --> 00:44:57,042
We'll be long gone.
Just another failed mutation.
1030
00:44:57,125 --> 00:44:59,709
Just another
closed-end biological mistake,
1031
00:44:59,792 --> 00:45:01,542
an evolutionary cul-de-sac.
1032
00:45:01,626 --> 00:45:05,500
The planet will shake us off
like a bad case of fleas.
1033
00:45:06,292 --> 00:45:09,083
A surface nuisance.
1034
00:45:09,167 --> 00:45:11,834
-(BLOWS)
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1035
00:45:11,918 --> 00:45:14,292
That haunting sound effect
1036
00:45:14,375 --> 00:45:16,584
of the Earth
just shaking us off, he goes...
1037
00:45:16,667 --> 00:45:19,709
(BLOWS) And I remember
I-- I-- like--
1038
00:45:19,792 --> 00:45:21,792
I felt like a jolt in my chest,
1039
00:45:21,876 --> 00:45:23,918
you know, when you lean back
on a chair or something,
1040
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:25,000
when he did that,
1041
00:45:25,083 --> 00:45:29,417
of the way
he so brutally and eloquently
1042
00:45:29,500 --> 00:45:31,334
showed the insignificance
1043
00:45:32,209 --> 00:45:33,709
of human beings and humanity.
1044
00:45:33,792 --> 00:45:37,292
To be fair, the planet probably
sees us as a mild threat.
1045
00:45:37,375 --> 00:45:38,667
Something to be dealt with,
1046
00:45:38,751 --> 00:45:40,751
and I'm sure
the planet will defend itself...
1047
00:45:40,834 --> 00:45:42,751
BILL: A lot of the stuffthat he was saying,
1048
00:45:42,834 --> 00:45:45,125
it was hard for some people
to listen to it,
1049
00:45:45,209 --> 00:45:47,709
because it was so searingly
and brutally honest.
1050
00:45:47,792 --> 00:45:49,626
What would you do
if you were the planet
1051
00:45:49,709 --> 00:45:51,626
trying to defend
against this pesky,
1052
00:45:51,709 --> 00:45:55,959
troublesome species? "Let's see.
What might... Hmm, Viruses."
1053
00:45:56,042 --> 00:45:57,042
Viruses might be good.
1054
00:45:57,125 --> 00:45:59,542
They seem vulnerable
to viruses.
1055
00:45:59,626 --> 00:46:02,209
And viruses are tricky,
always mutating
1056
00:46:02,292 --> 00:46:03,292
and forming new strains,
1057
00:46:03,375 --> 00:46:05,250
"whenever a vaccine
is developed."
1058
00:46:05,334 --> 00:46:07,334
The thing that
is so key with George
1059
00:46:07,417 --> 00:46:09,375
is he's not afraid of silence.
And so I think
1060
00:46:09,459 --> 00:46:11,375
when your comedian
has a specific agenda,
1061
00:46:11,459 --> 00:46:14,209
especially one that is
so explicitly political,
1062
00:46:14,292 --> 00:46:15,500
and so explicitly, like,
1063
00:46:15,584 --> 00:46:17,083
"I'm going to
confront the things
1064
00:46:17,167 --> 00:46:19,459
that you think
you don't want me to confront,"
1065
00:46:19,542 --> 00:46:22,167
you have to be able to
keep your back stiff.
1066
00:46:22,250 --> 00:46:24,626
Because if the audience
sees you back off,
1067
00:46:24,709 --> 00:46:25,792
then they got you.
1068
00:46:25,876 --> 00:46:29,292
Pro-life conservatives
are obsessed with a fetus
1069
00:46:29,375 --> 00:46:31,292
from conception to nine months.
1070
00:46:31,375 --> 00:46:33,375
After that, they don't want to
know about you.
1071
00:46:33,459 --> 00:46:35,626
They don't want to
hear from you. No nothing.
1072
00:46:35,709 --> 00:46:37,751
No neonatal care, no daycare,
no Head Start,
1073
00:46:37,834 --> 00:46:40,584
no school lunch, no food stamps,
no welfare, no nothing.
1074
00:46:40,667 --> 00:46:44,209
If you're preborn, you're fine.
If you're preschool,
1075
00:46:44,292 --> 00:46:46,042
-you're fucked.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, CHEERING)
1076
00:46:46,125 --> 00:46:50,751
-You're fucked.
-(LAUGHING, CHEERING)
1077
00:46:52,792 --> 00:46:55,209
Conservatives don't give
a shit about you
1078
00:46:55,292 --> 00:46:57,959
until you reach military age.
1079
00:46:58,959 --> 00:47:01,167
Then they think
you are just fine.
1080
00:47:01,250 --> 00:47:02,834
Just what they've been
looking for.
1081
00:47:02,918 --> 00:47:04,834
Conservatives want live babies
1082
00:47:04,918 --> 00:47:08,375
so they can raise them
to be dead soldiers.
1083
00:47:08,459 --> 00:47:11,667
Pro-life, they're not pro-life.
You know what they are?
1084
00:47:11,751 --> 00:47:14,334
They're anti-woman.
Simple as it gets,
1085
00:47:14,417 --> 00:47:16,667
anti-woman.
They don't like them.
1086
00:47:16,751 --> 00:47:19,918
(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1087
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,292
Here's another question I have.
1088
00:47:21,375 --> 00:47:23,709
How come when it's us,
it's an abortion,
1089
00:47:23,792 --> 00:47:25,792
and when it's a chicken,
it's an omelet?
1090
00:47:33,500 --> 00:47:36,918
Are we so much better
than chickens all of a sudden?
1091
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,876
Name six ways
we're better than chickens.
1092
00:47:39,959 --> 00:47:42,083
See, nobody can do it.
1093
00:47:42,167 --> 00:47:45,626
You know why? Because
chickens are decent people.
1094
00:47:47,209 --> 00:47:48,876
Is a fetus a human being?
1095
00:47:48,959 --> 00:47:51,000
This seems to be
the central question.
1096
00:47:51,083 --> 00:47:52,584
Well, if a fetus
is a human being,
1097
00:47:52,667 --> 00:47:55,083
how come the census
doesn't count them?
1098
00:47:55,167 --> 00:47:57,250
Just looking for
a little consistency here
1099
00:47:57,334 --> 00:47:59,292
in these
anti-abortion arguments...
1100
00:47:59,375 --> 00:48:01,751
No one is ever more himself
1101
00:48:01,834 --> 00:48:04,709
than at that moment
when he laughs
1102
00:48:04,792 --> 00:48:08,000
because it's very Zen-like,
that moment.
1103
00:48:08,083 --> 00:48:09,584
You are completely yourself
1104
00:48:09,667 --> 00:48:13,834
when the message hits that brain
and you understand it
1105
00:48:13,918 --> 00:48:15,959
and then the laugh begins.
1106
00:48:16,042 --> 00:48:18,709
If a new idea slips
into that moment,
1107
00:48:18,792 --> 00:48:23,167
it gets in and has a place
to start to grow a little.
1108
00:48:24,667 --> 00:48:25,751
At the same time,
1109
00:48:25,834 --> 00:48:28,500
you've had to surrender yourself
to that moment,
1110
00:48:28,584 --> 00:48:29,959
and it's a perfect union.
1111
00:48:31,167 --> 00:48:34,626
It's a genuine,
momentary communion.
1112
00:48:34,709 --> 00:48:37,584
They wouldn't have
experienced it without you,
1113
00:48:37,667 --> 00:48:39,876
and you wouldn't have
experienced it without them.
1114
00:48:41,584 --> 00:48:43,083
Maybe it's one of the things
1115
00:48:43,167 --> 00:48:46,250
that you seek
by following this path
1116
00:48:46,334 --> 00:48:50,292
is to have some power like that.
To be able to say,
1117
00:48:50,375 --> 00:48:53,959
"Stop in your tracks
and consider me."
1118
00:48:54,042 --> 00:48:55,459
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
1119
00:48:55,542 --> 00:48:57,250
I'm speaking to my friends,
the Catholics,
1120
00:48:57,334 --> 00:48:59,250
when John Cardinal O'Connor
of New York
1121
00:48:59,334 --> 00:49:00,500
and some of these
other cardinals
1122
00:49:00,584 --> 00:49:02,626
and bishops have experienced
their first pregnancies
1123
00:49:02,709 --> 00:49:03,959
and their first labor pains
1124
00:49:04,042 --> 00:49:05,918
and they've raised a couple
of children on minimum wage,
1125
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:07,042
then I'll be glad to hear
1126
00:49:07,125 --> 00:49:08,792
what they have to say
about abortion.
1127
00:49:08,876 --> 00:49:10,751
-(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-I'm sure it'll be interesting.
1128
00:49:10,834 --> 00:49:15,083
Enlightening, too. But... but...
1129
00:49:18,417 --> 00:49:20,292
in the meantime,
what they ought to be doing
1130
00:49:20,375 --> 00:49:22,626
is telling these priests
who took a vow of chastity
1131
00:49:22,709 --> 00:49:25,042
to keep their hands off
the altar boys.
1132
00:49:25,125 --> 00:49:26,125
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1133
00:49:26,209 --> 00:49:28,417
When Jesus said,
"Suffer the little children,
1134
00:49:28,500 --> 00:49:31,459
"come unto me," that's not what
He was talking about.
1135
00:49:31,542 --> 00:49:34,167
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1136
00:49:36,292 --> 00:49:39,000
This will be the best fair ever!
1137
00:49:39,083 --> 00:49:42,626
-Mr. Conductor?
-Look what I won at the fair!
1138
00:49:42,709 --> 00:49:44,542
Besides winning
all these prizes,
1139
00:49:44,626 --> 00:49:46,667
I had a whole baked bean.
1140
00:49:46,751 --> 00:49:48,167
HASAN MINHAJ: Like most kids,
1141
00:49:48,250 --> 00:49:52,167
my introduction to comedy
was my freshman year of college.
1142
00:49:52,250 --> 00:49:54,417
I was one of those kids where
I only knew Carlin
1143
00:49:54,500 --> 00:49:56,792
as the dude
from Shining Time Station.
1144
00:49:56,876 --> 00:49:58,918
Honestly, he was just the dude
1145
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:00,667
from Bill and Ted's
Excellent Adventure.
1146
00:50:00,751 --> 00:50:03,500
Greetings, my excellent friends.
1147
00:50:03,584 --> 00:50:06,542
ALEX WINTER:
The Rufus that you see
1148
00:50:06,626 --> 00:50:09,292
is the Carlin
that we knew off-camera.
1149
00:50:09,375 --> 00:50:12,751
Right, it was this gentle,
paternal...
1150
00:50:12,834 --> 00:50:15,209
It wasn't like, "Hey, now
I'm doing my thing." You know.
1151
00:50:15,292 --> 00:50:17,167
And I think
everyone expected that.
1152
00:50:17,250 --> 00:50:18,584
Like, no one complained
about this.
1153
00:50:18,667 --> 00:50:20,292
I'm not like going to
create some mythology.
1154
00:50:20,375 --> 00:50:22,918
I'm only telling you
what the set vibe was.
1155
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,584
And that was
what the set vibe was.
1156
00:50:24,667 --> 00:50:26,751
♪ (MID-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1157
00:50:26,834 --> 00:50:29,500
ALEX: One of the thingsI respected about him so much,
1158
00:50:29,584 --> 00:50:30,709
and I think one of the things
1159
00:50:30,792 --> 00:50:33,626
that drew me to him
when I was young,
1160
00:50:33,709 --> 00:50:36,125
there was a kind of
open-heartedness to him.
1161
00:50:36,209 --> 00:50:38,083
-Gentlemen...
-ALEX: And front and center
1162
00:50:38,167 --> 00:50:40,500
-were his values.
-...we're history.
1163
00:50:40,584 --> 00:50:42,083
Whoa!
1164
00:50:42,792 --> 00:50:44,209
Hi, Tom. Hot baked goods.
1165
00:50:45,167 --> 00:50:46,584
KELLY:
I don't think he ever gave up
1166
00:50:46,667 --> 00:50:47,751
on the Danny Kaye dream.
1167
00:50:47,834 --> 00:50:49,125
Well, hello, Susan.
1168
00:50:49,209 --> 00:50:53,167
You look fabulous this morning.
I'm so glad you both got laid.
1169
00:50:53,250 --> 00:50:55,250
He loved doing
Shining Time Station.
1170
00:50:55,334 --> 00:50:57,125
He loved being Rufus.
1171
00:50:57,209 --> 00:50:59,792
Then he calls me up.
He said, "I got a TV show."
1172
00:50:59,876 --> 00:51:01,334
I said, "Oh, how cool is that?"
1173
00:51:01,417 --> 00:51:03,626
Hey, don't buy any book
by a stand-up comedian
1174
00:51:03,709 --> 00:51:04,667
who's got a sitcom.
1175
00:51:04,751 --> 00:51:06,209
They don't know
what they're talking about.
1176
00:51:06,292 --> 00:51:07,584
He says,
"Yeah, you're on the payroll."
1177
00:51:07,667 --> 00:51:09,417
I said, "What's my job?"
1178
00:51:09,500 --> 00:51:13,292
And he says, "To help maintain
my New York attitude."
1179
00:51:14,667 --> 00:51:16,417
With a broomstick!
1180
00:51:16,500 --> 00:51:18,417
HOST: George Carlin starsin The George Carlin Show
1181
00:51:18,500 --> 00:51:20,751
on Sunday nights.
He plays George O'Grady.
1182
00:51:20,834 --> 00:51:22,500
If I was willing to apologize,
1183
00:51:22,584 --> 00:51:24,083
I could have
stayed in the altar boys,
1184
00:51:24,167 --> 00:51:26,918
the Boy Scouts, the choir,
three Catholic schools,
1185
00:51:27,042 --> 00:51:28,250
and the Air Force.
1186
00:51:28,334 --> 00:51:30,918
First of all, my acting bug
has never been satisfied,
1187
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,584
and I had Sam Simon.Sam's credentials include Taxi,
1188
00:51:34,667 --> 00:51:37,083
Cheers, Tracy Ullman,
and The Simpsons.
1189
00:51:37,167 --> 00:51:40,167
I thought at 56, maybe
I owe Brenda, my wife,
1190
00:51:40,250 --> 00:51:42,834
and me a shot
at a real home run.
1191
00:51:42,918 --> 00:51:45,000
♪ (PLAYFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1192
00:51:45,083 --> 00:51:46,459
GEORGE:
I've always been an outsider
1193
00:51:46,542 --> 00:51:49,417
and a loner,
in my life and in my career.
1194
00:51:50,292 --> 00:51:51,792
Onstage, out there alone,
1195
00:51:51,876 --> 00:51:53,334
you've written
everything yourself,
1196
00:51:53,417 --> 00:51:54,626
you deliver it yourself,
1197
00:51:54,709 --> 00:51:56,751
you're directing and producing.
It's a complete solo act.
1198
00:51:56,834 --> 00:51:58,292
And I just think
there's a part of me
1199
00:51:58,375 --> 00:51:59,292
that wants to belong,
1200
00:51:59,375 --> 00:52:00,959
that wants to be
a part of a group
1201
00:52:01,042 --> 00:52:02,375
that wants to collaborate.
1202
00:52:02,459 --> 00:52:04,959
And that's what acting is,
the ultimate collaborative art.
1203
00:52:07,459 --> 00:52:08,792
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
1204
00:52:08,876 --> 00:52:13,709
My dad did it... because
he wanted to stay at home
1205
00:52:13,792 --> 00:52:17,334
and spend time with my mom
and get off the fucking road.
1206
00:52:17,417 --> 00:52:22,459
He was tired.
He was sold the idea
1207
00:52:22,542 --> 00:52:26,709
that you can stay home
and have a life.
1208
00:52:27,959 --> 00:52:31,334
But Dad started working
14-hour days
1209
00:52:31,417 --> 00:52:33,667
and realizing that
he was not home with my mom.
1210
00:52:33,751 --> 00:52:37,834
And he was exhausted.
And irritated and at war
1211
00:52:37,918 --> 00:52:40,500
with his other
executive producer.
1212
00:52:40,584 --> 00:52:42,834
SAM SIMON: At the time,this is when Seinfeld
1213
00:52:42,918 --> 00:52:46,209
was looking at 250 million
dollars from his show.
1214
00:52:46,292 --> 00:52:48,918
And he said it,
he felt he owed it to his family
1215
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:50,667
to hit a home run,
1216
00:52:50,751 --> 00:52:55,167
but they wanted to change
the tone of the network.
1217
00:52:55,250 --> 00:52:57,209
So, in spite
of pretty good numbers,
1218
00:52:57,292 --> 00:52:58,751
the show was canceled.
1219
00:52:59,834 --> 00:53:02,584
He's a guy that wrote
all his own material
1220
00:53:02,667 --> 00:53:04,918
and got on the stage by himself,
1221
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:09,292
and just the nature of what
we were doing isn't that.
1222
00:53:09,375 --> 00:53:11,876
So it's just weird
that he considers it
1223
00:53:11,959 --> 00:53:13,459
this black mark and this failure
1224
00:53:13,542 --> 00:53:15,959
'cause you just go,
"Well, that's TV."
1225
00:53:17,834 --> 00:53:22,375
That's why most comedians fail.
We're not good collaborators,
1226
00:53:22,459 --> 00:53:24,209
obviously. (CHUCKLES)
1227
00:53:24,292 --> 00:53:26,000
Why the hell are you
up there by yourself?
1228
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:28,626
Because that's how
you feel comfortable.
1229
00:53:29,751 --> 00:53:32,584
I remember
somebody asking me once,
1230
00:53:33,709 --> 00:53:37,292
"Would you ever consider
doing a Broadway play?"
1231
00:53:37,375 --> 00:53:40,959
And I went, "You mean
where I would have to wait"
1232
00:53:41,042 --> 00:53:44,042
till someone else
finishes talking before I talk?
1233
00:53:45,167 --> 00:53:46,292
"Why would I do that?"
1234
00:53:47,500 --> 00:53:50,792
That's when you have to
melt yourself down
1235
00:53:50,876 --> 00:53:53,125
and pour yourself into
a different bottle,
1236
00:53:53,709 --> 00:53:54,751
to collaborate.
1237
00:53:54,834 --> 00:53:58,751
Hey, the streets are safer
with you behind bars.
1238
00:53:58,834 --> 00:53:59,918
GEORGE:
When they called me...
1239
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:01,083
Well, I won't be in here long!
1240
00:54:01,167 --> 00:54:02,417
...and told me
it had been canceled...
1241
00:54:02,500 --> 00:54:05,667
They haven't made the jail
that can hold George O'Grady.
1242
00:54:05,751 --> 00:54:07,459
...I said, "Thank you."
1243
00:54:07,542 --> 00:54:11,083
It was a detour that
I had to make one final time.
1244
00:54:11,167 --> 00:54:13,250
And there'll be a trial
of dead screws behind me.
1245
00:54:13,334 --> 00:54:15,000
CALLER: Hi, George.I'm a big fan of yours.
1246
00:54:15,083 --> 00:54:17,167
I loved your show.
It didn't make it.
1247
00:54:17,250 --> 00:54:19,000
Are we going to
see you on TV again?
1248
00:54:19,083 --> 00:54:21,250
No, I'm very happy
that it didn't make it
1249
00:54:21,334 --> 00:54:23,000
because I really didn't fit
1250
00:54:23,083 --> 00:54:25,667
in that kind of
commercial comedy setting.
1251
00:54:25,751 --> 00:54:27,000
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
1252
00:54:27,083 --> 00:54:28,959
GEORGE: Trouble is it was funon the stage,
1253
00:54:29,042 --> 00:54:31,500
it wasn't fun in the offices,
and that's fine.
1254
00:54:31,584 --> 00:54:33,125
I'm happy
to be doing what I love
1255
00:54:33,209 --> 00:54:34,375
and that is my stand up.
1256
00:54:34,459 --> 00:54:37,292
This next piece of material
is real simple.
1257
00:54:37,375 --> 00:54:40,500
It's called
"Free-Floating Hostility."
1258
00:54:40,584 --> 00:54:44,042
Cultural items I'm bored with,
tired of, and pissed at.
1259
00:54:44,125 --> 00:54:47,667
People who make quote marks
in the air with their fingers.
1260
00:54:47,751 --> 00:54:49,500
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
-What about these people
1261
00:54:49,584 --> 00:54:51,667
who tell you
their needs aren't being met?
1262
00:54:51,751 --> 00:54:53,125
What about these guys
who tell you,
1263
00:54:53,209 --> 00:54:55,209
"I heard that."
Too many vehicles.
1264
00:54:55,292 --> 00:54:58,709
White guys who wear
their baseball hats backwards?
1265
00:54:58,792 --> 00:55:00,417
What is all this shit
about angels?
1266
00:55:00,500 --> 00:55:03,459
What the fuck do White people
have to be blue about?
1267
00:55:03,542 --> 00:55:04,667
Something else
I don't understand,
1268
00:55:04,751 --> 00:55:05,834
-motivation tapes.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGH)
1269
00:55:05,918 --> 00:55:08,542
Banana Republic
ran out of khakis?
1270
00:55:08,626 --> 00:55:10,584
Now suddenly,
everyone is walking around
1271
00:55:10,667 --> 00:55:12,918
with their own
personal bottle of water.
1272
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,709
When did we get
so thirsty in America?
1273
00:55:15,792 --> 00:55:18,918
Three out of four people
now believe in angels.
1274
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:21,792
-What, are you fucking stupid?
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1275
00:55:21,876 --> 00:55:24,125
Besides, if you're motivated
enough to go to the store
1276
00:55:24,209 --> 00:55:25,167
to buy a motivation book,
1277
00:55:25,250 --> 00:55:26,626
aren't you motivated enough
to do that?
1278
00:55:26,709 --> 00:55:28,209
So you don't need the book.
Put it back, tell the court,
1279
00:55:28,292 --> 00:55:29,667
"Fuck you. I'm motivated.
I'm going home.
1280
00:55:29,751 --> 00:55:31,167
-I'm going home."
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1281
00:55:32,918 --> 00:55:34,876
I'm getting a little tired
of hearing
1282
00:55:34,959 --> 00:55:37,083
that after six policemen
get arrested
1283
00:55:37,167 --> 00:55:40,000
for shoving a floor lamp
up some Black guy's ass
1284
00:55:40,083 --> 00:55:42,918
and ripping his intestines out,
the Police Department announces
1285
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,334
they're going to
have sensitivity training.
1286
00:55:45,417 --> 00:55:46,500
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1287
00:55:46,584 --> 00:55:49,167
I say, "Hey, if you need
special training to be told"
1288
00:55:49,250 --> 00:55:51,292
not to jam a large
cumbersome object
1289
00:55:51,375 --> 00:55:54,250
up someone else's asshole,
maybe you're too fucked up
1290
00:55:54,334 --> 00:55:56,417
to be on the police force
in the first place.
1291
00:55:56,500 --> 00:55:58,751
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, CHEERING)
-Maybe. Maybe not.
1292
00:55:58,834 --> 00:56:02,375
Maybe not. I don't know.
You know what they oughta do?
1293
00:56:02,459 --> 00:56:03,876
They oughta have
two new requirements
1294
00:56:03,959 --> 00:56:07,626
for being on the police,
intelligence and decency.
1295
00:56:07,709 --> 00:56:10,209
You never can tell.
It might just work.
1296
00:56:10,292 --> 00:56:12,918
It certainly
hasn't been tried yet.
1297
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,167
(CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1298
00:56:15,250 --> 00:56:17,375
REPORTER: George Carlin,the hippy-dippie weatherman,
1299
00:56:17,459 --> 00:56:21,959
turned 60 this month, 60,
and this ninth-grade dropout...
1300
00:56:22,042 --> 00:56:23,542
Yeah, Cardinal Hayes...
1301
00:56:23,626 --> 00:56:25,876
REPORTER: ...I know.I didn't believe it either,
1302
00:56:25,959 --> 00:56:29,292
somewhere along the way
fell in love with ideas
1303
00:56:29,375 --> 00:56:32,667
and words and has just written
his first book,
1304
00:56:32,751 --> 00:56:36,125
Braindroppings, which questionssome of the major issues
1305
00:56:36,209 --> 00:56:37,542
of our time.
1306
00:56:37,626 --> 00:56:42,751
When it comes to bullshit,
truly Major League bullshit,
1307
00:56:42,834 --> 00:56:45,751
you have to
stand back in awe,
1308
00:56:45,834 --> 00:56:49,000
in awe of the all-time
heavyweight champion
1309
00:56:49,083 --> 00:56:50,167
of false promises
1310
00:56:50,250 --> 00:56:52,542
and exaggerated claims,
religion.
1311
00:56:52,626 --> 00:56:53,500
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
1312
00:56:53,584 --> 00:56:57,667
Organized religion,
it's no contest.
1313
00:56:58,334 --> 00:57:00,500
Religion easily, easily,
1314
00:57:00,584 --> 00:57:05,417
has the best bullshit story
of all time. Think about it.
1315
00:57:05,500 --> 00:57:11,125
Religion has convinced people
that there's an invisible man
1316
00:57:11,209 --> 00:57:16,042
living in the sky
who watches everything you do
1317
00:57:16,125 --> 00:57:19,292
-every minute of every day.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1318
00:57:19,375 --> 00:57:20,834
And the invisible man
1319
00:57:20,918 --> 00:57:24,167
has a list
of ten specific things
1320
00:57:24,250 --> 00:57:26,292
-he doesn't want you to do.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1321
00:57:26,375 --> 00:57:28,709
And if you do
any of these things,
1322
00:57:28,792 --> 00:57:31,542
he will send you
to a special place...
1323
00:57:33,626 --> 00:57:38,167
of burning and fire and smoke
and torture and anguish
1324
00:57:38,250 --> 00:57:43,209
for you to live forever
and suffer and burn and scream
1325
00:57:43,292 --> 00:57:45,042
until the end of time.
1326
00:57:46,584 --> 00:57:49,209
-But he loves you.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1327
00:57:49,292 --> 00:57:51,167
-He loves you.
-(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
1328
00:57:54,626 --> 00:57:58,167
He loves you and he needs money.
1329
00:57:58,250 --> 00:58:00,792
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1330
00:58:02,167 --> 00:58:04,292
He always needs money.
1331
00:58:05,918 --> 00:58:10,250
He's all-powerful, all-present,
all-knowing, and all-wise.
1332
00:58:10,334 --> 00:58:14,000
-Just can't handle money.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1333
00:58:14,083 --> 00:58:15,375
Do you feel your place
in comedy now?
1334
00:58:15,459 --> 00:58:16,667
Do you feel that place?
Is that...
1335
00:58:16,751 --> 00:58:17,709
That is growing on me.
1336
00:58:17,792 --> 00:58:20,459
I think longevity
is a wonderful thing.
1337
00:58:20,542 --> 00:58:22,500
Sometimes you get applause
just for not being dead
1338
00:58:22,584 --> 00:58:23,667
-when you say...
-(LAUGHS)
1339
00:58:23,751 --> 00:58:26,125
It's true. When you say,
"I'm going to be 60,"
1340
00:58:26,209 --> 00:58:29,459
they applaud that.
Wonderful, he's not dead, 60.
1341
00:58:29,542 --> 00:58:33,584
Uh, so, but,
but I'm getting a sense of it.
1342
00:58:33,667 --> 00:58:36,042
You know, when you're in planes
three days a week.
1343
00:58:36,125 --> 00:58:37,751
I go out every Friday,
I come home every Monday.
1344
00:58:37,834 --> 00:58:39,584
It's three different cities,
three different nights,
1345
00:58:39,667 --> 00:58:42,292
airports, hotel lobbies,
and people are wonderful.
1346
00:58:42,375 --> 00:58:45,542
People-- I love individuals.
I hate groups of people.
1347
00:58:45,626 --> 00:58:46,542
I hate people who have
1348
00:58:46,626 --> 00:58:49,083
a group of people
with a common purpose,
1349
00:58:49,167 --> 00:58:51,042
because pretty soon
they have little hats...
1350
00:58:51,125 --> 00:58:54,626
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
-...you know, and armbands,
1351
00:58:54,709 --> 00:58:57,542
and fight songs,
and a list of people
1352
00:58:57,626 --> 00:59:00,167
they're going to visit
at 3:00 a.m.
1353
00:59:00,250 --> 00:59:02,626
So, I dislike
and despise groups of people,
1354
00:59:02,709 --> 00:59:06,083
but I love individuals.
And so, cumulatively,
1355
00:59:06,167 --> 00:59:08,584
I have gotten the feeling
that I'm in this big family.
1356
00:59:08,667 --> 00:59:10,417
A family life I never had,
by the way,
1357
00:59:10,500 --> 00:59:12,792
this so to say, extended family
1358
00:59:12,876 --> 00:59:14,834
of people who feel like
you're their cousin.
1359
00:59:14,918 --> 00:59:17,500
Just like,
"Georgie, in 1961, I saw you.
1360
00:59:17,584 --> 00:59:18,959
Hey, remember that?" "Yes."
1361
00:59:19,042 --> 00:59:21,125
"Oh, and you know
what you said?" I said, "Did I?"
1362
00:59:21,209 --> 00:59:24,292
"Oh, yes." It's just great.
And so, cumulatively,
1363
00:59:24,375 --> 00:59:27,375
you say, "Well,
I guess I'm in the family.
1364
00:59:27,459 --> 00:59:28,918
I guess it's okay."
1365
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:31,500
JOURNALIST:
He's there, George! George.
1366
00:59:31,584 --> 00:59:35,292
GEORGE: I met my wife, Brenda,35 years ago in a nightclub
1367
00:59:35,375 --> 00:59:36,500
in Dayton, Ohio.
1368
00:59:36,584 --> 00:59:40,751
And she has taken every step
of this trip with me.
1369
00:59:40,834 --> 00:59:42,000
In the beginning,
1370
00:59:42,083 --> 00:59:44,459
she sat back
of those bad nightclubs
1371
00:59:45,334 --> 00:59:47,292
and had to watch my second show
1372
00:59:48,417 --> 00:59:50,000
when the 12 people
in the audience
1373
00:59:50,083 --> 00:59:52,334
had already seen my first show
1374
00:59:52,417 --> 00:59:55,125
and I was forced to do
the B material.
1375
00:59:55,209 --> 00:59:57,459
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1376
00:59:59,292 --> 01:00:02,167
She gave birth to our
miraculous daughter, Kelly,
1377
01:00:02,250 --> 01:00:04,834
who once slept
on the stage right near me
1378
01:00:04,918 --> 01:00:08,334
all through a show I did
at a college in Georgia.
1379
01:00:08,417 --> 01:00:12,083
She was nine years old.
Kelly, not Brenda.
1380
01:00:12,167 --> 01:00:14,876
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1381
01:00:14,959 --> 01:00:18,626
Then, in 1970, when I discovered
I had to follow my heart
1382
01:00:18,709 --> 01:00:22,459
and go from a suit and tie
to a beard and jeans,
1383
01:00:22,542 --> 01:00:25,459
and take a pay cut
of about 80 percent,
1384
01:00:25,542 --> 01:00:28,334
Brenda never blinked.
Never blinked.
1385
01:00:28,417 --> 01:00:30,542
Even though
it meant walking away
1386
01:00:30,626 --> 01:00:32,876
from the purchase
of our very first home,
1387
01:00:32,959 --> 01:00:36,834
which was in escrow at the time.
And you know what she said?
1388
01:00:37,709 --> 01:00:40,375
When I told her
what I wanted to do,
1389
01:00:40,459 --> 01:00:45,125
she said, "I'm going to make up
your new press kit."
1390
01:00:45,209 --> 01:00:47,375
She's the best
I could ever have wished for.
1391
01:00:47,959 --> 01:00:50,626
So, Brenda, thank you.
1392
01:00:50,709 --> 01:00:53,834
-Thank you.
-(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
1393
01:00:59,459 --> 01:01:01,584
And Brenda,
as they say on these occasions,
1394
01:01:01,667 --> 01:01:03,876
half of this belongs to you.
1395
01:01:03,959 --> 01:01:08,417
I promise you, later on,
when we sell this thing...
1396
01:01:08,500 --> 01:01:09,918
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1397
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:11,792
...I'll split the money
with you.
1398
01:01:11,876 --> 01:01:15,292
Thanks, everybody,
very, very much. Thank you.
1399
01:01:15,375 --> 01:01:16,667
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1400
01:01:16,751 --> 01:01:18,626
CROWD: Surprise!
1401
01:01:18,709 --> 01:01:23,250
(CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1402
01:01:29,292 --> 01:01:30,959
HOST:
You've had a long, successful,
1403
01:01:31,042 --> 01:01:32,876
-happy marriage.
-GEORGE: Yes, sir.
1404
01:01:32,959 --> 01:01:34,626
HOST: In a societywhere that's unusual,
1405
01:01:34,709 --> 01:01:36,876
in a profession
where it's very unusual.
1406
01:01:36,959 --> 01:01:40,167
GEORGE: Brenda and I were luckyto have found one another.
1407
01:01:40,250 --> 01:01:42,000
We had our problems
as everyone has.
1408
01:01:42,083 --> 01:01:44,209
We had to get past
some bad things,
1409
01:01:44,292 --> 01:01:46,626
but we always had
our senses of humor.
1410
01:01:46,709 --> 01:01:49,876
And we always had
a kind of loyalty to each other.
1411
01:01:49,959 --> 01:01:52,542
"I think there's
a little aspect of, "You know,
1412
01:01:52,626 --> 01:01:54,292
we did this and here we are.
1413
01:01:54,375 --> 01:01:57,751
"It's us. It's not you and me.
It's us."
1414
01:02:01,709 --> 01:02:04,000
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
1415
01:02:04,083 --> 01:02:07,292
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1416
01:02:17,292 --> 01:02:22,209
KELLY: When my mom got sick...from liver cancer,
1417
01:02:23,125 --> 01:02:25,417
the oncologist said to us
1418
01:02:25,500 --> 01:02:28,375
she has maybe
three months to live.
1419
01:02:28,459 --> 01:02:32,792
And so he was in denial a bit
about it. I certainly was.
1420
01:02:32,876 --> 01:02:34,792
We have a family meeting,
and we were going to have
1421
01:02:34,876 --> 01:02:37,667
a big 60th birthday
for my dad. And my dad says,
1422
01:02:37,751 --> 01:02:41,876
"We're not going to
do this birthday party.
1423
01:02:41,959 --> 01:02:44,876
Let's do it when Mom stabilizes
in a few months."
1424
01:02:46,375 --> 01:02:49,500
And none of us are talking about
what's actually going on,
1425
01:02:49,584 --> 01:02:52,792
which is my mother's not
going to be alive in six months.
1426
01:02:53,876 --> 01:02:55,667
Nobody's talking about it.
1427
01:02:57,542 --> 01:02:58,876
And then my dad says,
1428
01:02:59,709 --> 01:03:01,125
"I have to go on the road."
1429
01:03:01,209 --> 01:03:04,250
And it's like a ten-day trip
he's got to go on the road.
1430
01:03:04,334 --> 01:03:06,125
And I'm like, "What?"
1431
01:03:08,375 --> 01:03:13,500
I'm furious inside,
and at the same time,
1432
01:03:13,584 --> 01:03:18,083
stupefied by my own inability
to say, "You have to stay home."
1433
01:03:21,959 --> 01:03:23,375
JEFF ABRAHAM: You know,he had his first book
1434
01:03:23,459 --> 01:03:27,209
coming out, Braindroppings.
And he had this press tour.
1435
01:03:27,292 --> 01:03:29,125
You know, we had started
probably about a month or so
1436
01:03:29,209 --> 01:03:31,876
just prior to that.
And he would go out,
1437
01:03:31,959 --> 01:03:34,667
do a couple dates,
race home, see Brenda.
1438
01:03:34,751 --> 01:03:36,709
And he was all set
to do Letterman.
1439
01:03:36,792 --> 01:03:39,000
You know, he flew to New York
1440
01:03:39,083 --> 01:03:41,834
"and he got the call, "Brenda's
probably not going to make it
1441
01:03:41,918 --> 01:03:43,209
through the weekend."
1442
01:03:46,417 --> 01:03:48,334
JERRY:
I don't know if she was dead
1443
01:03:48,417 --> 01:03:50,459
when he walked in the room
or not,
1444
01:03:52,709 --> 01:03:56,876
but I do remember
that she had a teardrop.
1445
01:03:56,959 --> 01:04:02,250
And George took a Kleenex
and wiped her eye
1446
01:04:02,334 --> 01:04:05,375
and saved that Kleenex
till the day he died.
1447
01:04:06,125 --> 01:04:07,209
Brenda.
1448
01:04:12,417 --> 01:04:15,542
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
1449
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:20,542
KELLY: She died on Mother's Day.
1450
01:04:23,209 --> 01:04:25,000
But to watch my dad...
1451
01:04:29,083 --> 01:04:34,542
take her, um...
face in his hands,
1452
01:04:34,626 --> 01:04:37,959
and he was just like,
"Oh, Brenny. Oh, Brenny.
1453
01:04:38,042 --> 01:04:41,250
I'm so sorry."
And it was just like...
1454
01:04:42,375 --> 01:04:44,250
you know,
they loved each other so much,
1455
01:04:44,334 --> 01:04:46,083
and, um...
1456
01:04:46,167 --> 01:04:49,083
it was such a fucked way
for it to end.
1457
01:04:51,918 --> 01:04:55,626
I just pretty much after that
dedicated myself, you know,
1458
01:04:55,709 --> 01:04:57,125
"I'm not going to
pretend anymore.
1459
01:04:57,209 --> 01:05:00,292
I'm not pretending
with my dad anymore."
1460
01:05:00,375 --> 01:05:02,751
My dad and I actually,
after that, we were like,
1461
01:05:02,834 --> 01:05:05,167
"All right, we need to learn
how to talk to each other."
1462
01:05:05,250 --> 01:05:08,375
Because we got
how fucked up it all was.
1463
01:05:11,500 --> 01:05:14,000
LARRY KING: Tragedy came intoGeorge Carlin's life recently
1464
01:05:14,083 --> 01:05:16,500
after a long
and very happy marriage,
1465
01:05:16,584 --> 01:05:18,417
the death of his wife.
And this book wasn't--
1466
01:05:18,500 --> 01:05:20,083
-You didn't time it this way.
-GEORGE: No.
1467
01:05:20,167 --> 01:05:21,584
So you're committed
to this tour.
1468
01:05:21,667 --> 01:05:23,000
I'm sure
you wouldn't be out on it.
1469
01:05:23,083 --> 01:05:26,167
Brenda was ill at the time
the book tour was being booked.
1470
01:05:26,250 --> 01:05:27,709
And I like to say,
1471
01:05:27,792 --> 01:05:29,918
Brenda not only
was the light of my life,
1472
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:31,709
she was the keeper
of my dreams.
1473
01:05:31,792 --> 01:05:32,876
How do you
deal with it, George?
1474
01:05:32,959 --> 01:05:36,209
Well, you just have to
get each day done
1475
01:05:36,292 --> 01:05:37,584
a little bit at a time.
1476
01:05:37,667 --> 01:05:39,459
And you go
from emotion to logic.
1477
01:05:39,542 --> 01:05:40,751
During the first few weeks,
1478
01:05:40,834 --> 01:05:42,959
there's so many things to do
and think about
1479
01:05:43,042 --> 01:05:46,792
that you bounce back and forth
between feeling and thinking.
1480
01:05:46,876 --> 01:05:49,375
And there are times
when you hit a low.
1481
01:05:49,459 --> 01:05:52,459
And there are times
when you're okay, sort of.
1482
01:05:52,542 --> 01:05:53,626
Do you live lots of memories
1483
01:05:53,709 --> 01:05:55,125
-when you have that many years?
-Oh, yes.
1484
01:05:55,209 --> 01:05:57,334
Every city that I've been in
on my own,
1485
01:05:57,417 --> 01:06:00,584
I've been in with Brenda.
Almost every one.
1486
01:06:00,667 --> 01:06:03,042
We drove every mile
of this country together.
1487
01:06:03,125 --> 01:06:05,876
Early in the marriage,
we lived out of our Dodge Dart.
1488
01:06:05,959 --> 01:06:10,000
It's not just sorrow and loss.
It's savoring what you had.
1489
01:06:10,834 --> 01:06:14,083
♪ (SORROWFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1490
01:06:16,459 --> 01:06:17,584
Excuse me.
1491
01:06:19,584 --> 01:06:22,167
Fill them pews, people.
That's the key.
1492
01:06:22,250 --> 01:06:25,334
Grab the little ones as well.
Hook them while they're young.
1493
01:06:25,417 --> 01:06:28,667
So, in 1998, we get ready
to make this picture, Dogma.
1494
01:06:28,751 --> 01:06:31,417
When we were casting,
they were like...
1495
01:06:31,500 --> 01:06:33,334
All right. Mistakes were made.
1496
01:06:33,417 --> 01:06:35,959
..."Who do you see
as Cardinal Glick?"
1497
01:06:36,042 --> 01:06:37,500
And I said, "George Carlin."
1498
01:06:37,584 --> 01:06:40,667
Now, we all know
how the majority and the media
1499
01:06:40,751 --> 01:06:43,375
in this country
view the Catholic Church.
1500
01:06:43,459 --> 01:06:45,209
KEVIN: One dayhe came up to me on set,
1501
01:06:45,292 --> 01:06:48,083
"he goes, "As you know,
my wife just passed away.
1502
01:06:48,167 --> 01:06:52,083
I'm not ready to take off
my wedding band yet."
1503
01:06:52,167 --> 01:06:55,459
So what I came up with is,
if it's okay with you
1504
01:06:55,542 --> 01:06:59,292
and if it's okay for the movie,
if I put a Band-Aid,
1505
01:06:59,375 --> 01:07:02,918
if Cardinal Glick has a Band-Aid
on his finger the whole movie,
1506
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:05,876
it would allow me
to keep my wedding band on
1507
01:07:05,959 --> 01:07:07,584
"because it's just too soon."
1508
01:07:10,042 --> 01:07:11,375
ROCCO URBISCI:
There's a period of healing
1509
01:07:11,459 --> 01:07:13,042
you have to go through,
and then you realize,
1510
01:07:13,125 --> 01:07:14,876
you know, you're still here.
1511
01:07:14,959 --> 01:07:16,834
And they would want you
to do what you do.
1512
01:07:18,250 --> 01:07:21,709
That's a gift you were given,
and for you not to do it
1513
01:07:22,209 --> 01:07:23,375
would be a sin.
1514
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:28,125
So George did
what he always did,
1515
01:07:28,584 --> 01:07:29,876
went home...
1516
01:07:29,959 --> 01:07:32,459
(LIGHT TAPPING)
1517
01:07:32,542 --> 01:07:34,000
...and wrote.
1518
01:07:34,083 --> 01:07:36,709
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1519
01:07:51,417 --> 01:07:53,083
GEORGE:
Religion tries to tell us
1520
01:07:53,167 --> 01:07:55,292
that there's meaning
and that there's purpose
1521
01:07:55,375 --> 01:07:57,918
and there's design,
and there isn't.
1522
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:02,292
It is all chaos
and random and chance.
1523
01:08:02,375 --> 01:08:04,751
Religion takes a basic impulse
we all have,
1524
01:08:04,834 --> 01:08:06,417
which is a spiritual yearning.
1525
01:08:06,500 --> 01:08:10,167
To be reunited somehow
with the universe.
1526
01:08:10,250 --> 01:08:11,959
And that's what religion
exploits.
1527
01:08:12,042 --> 01:08:13,125
They call it God.
1528
01:08:13,209 --> 01:08:16,083
They say he has rules,
and I think it's cruel.
1529
01:08:16,167 --> 01:08:20,042
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
1530
01:08:26,417 --> 01:08:28,209
GEORGE: I have pulled awayand I now reside out
1531
01:08:28,292 --> 01:08:31,375
where the Oort cloud is,
where the comets gather.
1532
01:08:31,459 --> 01:08:34,918
I finally decided
that I would dissociate myself,
1533
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:38,834
view all of this as an absurd,
tragic comedy,
1534
01:08:38,918 --> 01:08:42,125
and really have a point of view
that allowed me
1535
01:08:42,209 --> 01:08:45,167
to say anything that felt right,
1536
01:08:45,250 --> 01:08:48,334
that expressed how I was
reacting to all of this,
1537
01:08:48,417 --> 01:08:50,500
and how it made me feel.
1538
01:08:50,584 --> 01:08:53,334
I sort of gave up
on the human race
1539
01:08:53,417 --> 01:08:56,375
and decided that
I didn't care about the outcome.
1540
01:08:56,459 --> 01:08:58,709
"Not caring about the outcome."
What do you mean by that?
1541
01:08:58,792 --> 01:08:59,918
Right. Not having
an emotional stake
1542
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:02,542
in whether this experiment
with human beings works.
1543
01:09:02,626 --> 01:09:05,500
I really don't care.
I love people as I meet them
1544
01:09:05,584 --> 01:09:08,667
one by one. People are
just wonderful as individuals.
1545
01:09:08,751 --> 01:09:10,250
You see the whole universe
in their eyes
1546
01:09:10,334 --> 01:09:11,250
if you look carefully.
1547
01:09:11,334 --> 01:09:12,667
But as soon as they begin
to group,
1548
01:09:12,751 --> 01:09:15,334
as soon as they begin to clot,
when there are five of them
1549
01:09:15,417 --> 01:09:17,459
or ten, or even groups
as small as two,
1550
01:09:17,542 --> 01:09:18,542
they begin to change.
1551
01:09:18,626 --> 01:09:20,667
They sacrifice the beauty
of the individual
1552
01:09:20,751 --> 01:09:21,834
for the sake of the group.
1553
01:09:21,918 --> 01:09:25,459
I decided it was all
under the control of groups now,
1554
01:09:25,542 --> 01:09:28,792
whether it's business, religion,
political people or what.
1555
01:09:28,876 --> 01:09:32,751
And I would distance myself
from wishing for a good outcome.
1556
01:09:32,834 --> 01:09:34,417
Let it do what it's going to do
1557
01:09:34,500 --> 01:09:36,292
and I'll enjoy it
as an entertainment.
1558
01:09:36,375 --> 01:09:37,792
And not reflect on
what it is on its own?
1559
01:09:37,876 --> 01:09:41,834
And when you say to yourself,
"I don't care what happens."
1560
01:09:41,918 --> 01:09:44,125
It just gives you
a broader perspective
1561
01:09:44,209 --> 01:09:46,334
for the art,
for the words to emerge.
1562
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:54,209
JON: The only other person
1563
01:09:54,292 --> 01:09:57,375
that I had a similar feeling
about was Kurt Vonnegut,
1564
01:09:57,459 --> 01:10:00,751
who struck me
as incredibly humanistic.
1565
01:10:01,834 --> 01:10:04,209
Someone with great care
for the individual,
1566
01:10:04,292 --> 01:10:11,375
of great empathy, but of a real
mistrust of institutions.
1567
01:10:11,459 --> 01:10:15,125
When you'd talk to him,
everything was so rational.
1568
01:10:15,209 --> 01:10:18,292
If that was his spirituality,
I think,
1569
01:10:18,375 --> 01:10:21,459
it was in the rational mind.
1570
01:10:21,542 --> 01:10:26,709
But I think he also
felt outside of life.
1571
01:10:32,042 --> 01:10:35,459
JERRY: He would never talk like,"Oh, I'm going to die,"
1572
01:10:35,542 --> 01:10:40,250
but I think he felt that way,
that his days were numbered.
1573
01:10:40,334 --> 01:10:43,334
There are so many dates
that I had to cancel
1574
01:10:43,417 --> 01:10:46,417
because George had to
go to the hospital.
1575
01:10:46,500 --> 01:10:49,125
So I know he was afraid of it.
1576
01:10:49,209 --> 01:10:52,751
And what George needed,
you know, he couldn't be alone.
1577
01:10:52,834 --> 01:10:55,292
He didn't...
It was a funny combination,
1578
01:10:55,375 --> 01:10:57,500
he didn't really want to
interact with people,
1579
01:10:57,584 --> 01:10:59,292
but he wanted somebody around.
1580
01:11:01,042 --> 01:11:02,709
You know, if he was going to
get on the phone
1581
01:11:02,792 --> 01:11:05,918
after a show and call
and talk about his show,
1582
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:08,584
he wanted somebody
to pick up the phone.
1583
01:11:08,667 --> 01:11:11,167
And, you know, he could
throw the I love you's around,
1584
01:11:11,250 --> 01:11:13,334
but what I think
he really wanted
1585
01:11:13,417 --> 01:11:15,584
was to say,
"Hey, I tried that joke."
1586
01:11:15,667 --> 01:11:18,250
♪ (PLAYFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1587
01:11:18,334 --> 01:11:19,626
JERRY: And then he met Sally.
1588
01:11:25,709 --> 01:11:27,626
SALLY WADE: One day,I went to the bookstore
1589
01:11:27,709 --> 01:11:29,542
with my dog, Spot.
1590
01:11:29,626 --> 01:11:33,626
And the only two people in there
were George and myself.
1591
01:11:35,167 --> 01:11:37,792
I told myself, if he bent down
to pet Spot,
1592
01:11:37,876 --> 01:11:39,751
that I would say hello to him.
1593
01:11:41,584 --> 01:11:44,334
And he bent down
and pet Spot right away.
1594
01:11:48,125 --> 01:11:51,042
Our conversation
at the time was,
1595
01:11:51,125 --> 01:11:54,667
he was trying to transform
from being--
1596
01:11:54,751 --> 01:11:57,042
from doing into being
1597
01:11:57,125 --> 01:11:59,959
and he was tired of always doing
1598
01:12:00,042 --> 01:12:02,500
and he wanted to just
be who he was.
1599
01:12:04,334 --> 01:12:06,292
He walked me out to my car
1600
01:12:06,375 --> 01:12:09,000
and said that he'd call me
in eight months.
1601
01:12:09,083 --> 01:12:10,167
He wanted to wait.
1602
01:12:10,250 --> 01:12:12,459
He wanted to honor
the marriage that he'd lost.
1603
01:12:12,542 --> 01:12:16,834
And it would take eight months
for it to be a year.
1604
01:12:16,918 --> 01:12:20,417
I figured I'd never see him
again. And eight months later,
1605
01:12:20,500 --> 01:12:25,209
he called and asked me
if I wanted to go get a bagel.
1606
01:12:25,292 --> 01:12:28,834
My instincts told me
that he was a really nice guy.
1607
01:12:28,918 --> 01:12:33,125
And my instincts were wrong.
He was much nicer than that.
1608
01:12:33,209 --> 01:12:34,459
He was sweeter than that.
1609
01:12:34,542 --> 01:12:36,834
I mean,
he was the sweetest person
1610
01:12:37,500 --> 01:12:39,459
I think I've ever met.
1611
01:12:39,542 --> 01:12:42,000
AUTOMATED VOICE:
Thursday, 3:46 a.m.
1612
01:12:42,083 --> 01:12:43,626
GEORGE:
Hi, baby. How are you doing?
1613
01:12:43,709 --> 01:12:46,042
Well, it's over.
It went very well.
1614
01:12:46,125 --> 01:12:48,292
A lot of laughs.
They were a good audience.
1615
01:12:48,375 --> 01:12:51,083
AUTOMATED VOICE:
Saturday, 6:51 p.m.
1616
01:12:51,167 --> 01:12:53,792
GEORGE: We're on the air todayfrom Connecticut.
1617
01:12:53,876 --> 01:12:54,792
How do you like that?
1618
01:12:54,876 --> 01:12:56,709
A special broadcast
to one person.
1619
01:12:56,792 --> 01:12:59,626
A fine, fine girl.
Her name is Sally Wade.
1620
01:12:59,709 --> 01:13:02,292
Wow-ee, I say,
"Wow, look at that Sal',
1621
01:13:02,375 --> 01:13:04,375
she is some dish. Wow-ee."
1622
01:13:04,459 --> 01:13:07,709
SALLY: We just startedwriting notes to each other.
1623
01:13:07,792 --> 01:13:12,292
And those evolved into us
being from a different planet,
1624
01:13:12,375 --> 01:13:15,751
and that we were just a couple
of five-year-olds
1625
01:13:15,834 --> 01:13:19,250
writing as very astute kids
from Jupiter.
1626
01:13:19,334 --> 01:13:22,125
GEORGE: The Jupiterian kingis out there goofing.
1627
01:13:22,209 --> 01:13:23,459
I'm out there goofing.
1628
01:13:23,542 --> 01:13:27,542
We were weird.
And our weirdness connected.
1629
01:13:29,542 --> 01:13:31,584
So we married ourselves.
1630
01:13:31,667 --> 01:13:33,751
We didn't have
the proper paperwork,
1631
01:13:33,834 --> 01:13:36,542
but we didn't think
we needed that.
1632
01:13:37,334 --> 01:13:39,292
Saturday, 5:18 a.m.
1633
01:13:39,375 --> 01:13:43,542
GEORGE: ♪ As the sunComes up in Baltimore ♪
1634
01:13:43,626 --> 01:13:47,000
♪ And the ships
Sail out to sea ♪
1635
01:13:47,083 --> 01:13:51,167
♪ I get out of bed
And stretch my balls ♪
1636
01:13:51,250 --> 01:13:54,792
♪ And I take a fucking pee ♪
1637
01:13:54,876 --> 01:13:58,167
There's a lovely tune for you.
I love you. Goodbye, baby.
1638
01:13:58,250 --> 01:13:59,209
(RECEIVER CLATTERS)
1639
01:13:59,292 --> 01:14:00,459
KEVIN:
So, we were sitting around,
1640
01:14:00,542 --> 01:14:03,250
doing rehearsal.
It was me, him, and Ben.
1641
01:14:03,334 --> 01:14:06,250
And he started talking
about Sally and he talked about,
1642
01:14:06,334 --> 01:14:08,209
he's like, "I love it.
It makes me feel young."
1643
01:14:08,292 --> 01:14:10,751
We play this game where
we're not really a part
1644
01:14:10,834 --> 01:14:12,500
of this fucking world anymore,
1645
01:14:12,584 --> 01:14:14,459
where we enter
the kingdom of the fairies
1646
01:14:14,542 --> 01:14:16,876
"and she's the fairy queen
and I'm the fairy king."
1647
01:14:16,959 --> 01:14:20,459
And he went on
this, like, very eloquent,
1648
01:14:20,542 --> 01:14:23,500
very uncharacteristic
of George Carlin,
1649
01:14:23,584 --> 01:14:29,209
you know, almost
fucking Ren Fest-y explanation.
1650
01:14:29,292 --> 01:14:30,834
I wanted to wave him off
and be like,
1651
01:14:30,918 --> 01:14:32,876
"Not in front of Affleck."
1652
01:14:32,959 --> 01:14:35,209
Um, because as soon as we left,
1653
01:14:35,292 --> 01:14:38,209
Ben just immediately cornered me
and was just like,
1654
01:14:38,292 --> 01:14:41,792
"Did you hear the part
where he's the fairy king?"
1655
01:14:41,876 --> 01:14:44,167
♪ (CALM MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1656
01:14:45,584 --> 01:14:48,292
ALLEY MILLS-BEAN:
He seemed like a little boy.
1657
01:14:48,375 --> 01:14:52,042
(CHUCKLES) I mean,
I don't know George from before,
1658
01:14:52,125 --> 01:14:56,834
so I don't know what he was like
as a man earlier in his life,
1659
01:14:56,918 --> 01:15:01,459
but I felt like...
both of them were like children.
1660
01:15:01,542 --> 01:15:03,000
GEORGE: I'm so in love...
1661
01:15:03,083 --> 01:15:04,334
ALLEY:
You could just see the way
1662
01:15:04,417 --> 01:15:08,042
that George looked at her.
He was madly in love with her.
1663
01:15:08,125 --> 01:15:11,709
GEORGE: ...Best baby dollin the whole wide world,
1664
01:15:11,792 --> 01:15:14,083
and I love you so...
1665
01:15:14,167 --> 01:15:18,375
ALLEY: I never saw him angry.I only saw him happy.
1666
01:15:23,584 --> 01:15:25,500
FILM CREW MEMBER:
George Carlin promo.
1667
01:15:28,292 --> 01:15:30,292
-B-roll, b-roll.
-SALLY: That's me.
1668
01:15:30,375 --> 01:15:31,626
There you go. What's your name?
1669
01:15:31,709 --> 01:15:33,334
-SALLY: I'm Findlay.
-No, you're not.
1670
01:15:33,417 --> 01:15:34,834
-SALLY: Yes, I am.
-GEORGE: Findlay?
1671
01:15:34,918 --> 01:15:37,209
-SALLY: Yes, that's me.
-Findlay, Ohio.
1672
01:15:37,292 --> 01:15:38,375
GEORGE:
Artists are on a journey.
1673
01:15:38,459 --> 01:15:39,584
They don't know
where it is going.
1674
01:15:39,667 --> 01:15:41,083
They just know
there's something else.
1675
01:15:41,167 --> 01:15:42,292
There's something more.
1676
01:15:42,375 --> 01:15:43,792
There's more in me.
There's more to talk about.
1677
01:15:43,876 --> 01:15:44,959
-(LAUGHS)
-Yeah, that's good.
1678
01:15:45,042 --> 01:15:46,667
Yeah, that's good.
It does look real.
1679
01:15:46,751 --> 01:15:49,751
Pablo Casals, the great cellist.
1680
01:15:49,834 --> 01:15:52,459
He was in his nineties,
and someone said to him,
1681
01:15:52,542 --> 01:15:55,834
"Master Casals,
why, at your age,
1682
01:15:55,918 --> 01:15:58,375
do you bother practicing
three hours a day?"
1683
01:15:58,459 --> 01:15:59,500
Hello.
1684
01:15:59,584 --> 01:16:01,459
"And he said, "Well,
1685
01:16:01,542 --> 01:16:04,209
I'm beginning to notice
some improvement."
1686
01:16:04,292 --> 01:16:06,500
It's interesting and it's true.
1687
01:16:06,584 --> 01:16:09,209
And that's the thing
that's in me.
1688
01:16:09,292 --> 01:16:11,751
I notice myself
getting better at this.
1689
01:16:11,834 --> 01:16:16,918
Statistics show that every year,
a million people commit suicide.
1690
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:21,500
That's 2,800 a day.
One every 30 seconds.
1691
01:16:24,167 --> 01:16:25,500
-(FILM CREW LAUGHS)
-You know?
1692
01:16:25,584 --> 01:16:26,834
It's up to-- you sort of--
1693
01:16:26,918 --> 01:16:29,000
It's the viewer's interpretation
of that.
1694
01:16:29,083 --> 01:16:30,751
Like,
"Is that an invitation to them?"
1695
01:16:30,834 --> 01:16:32,542
-FILM CREW 1: Yeah.
-FILM CREW 2: Marking.
1696
01:16:34,918 --> 01:16:37,667
SALLY: The only thingI didn't know in all of this,
1697
01:16:37,751 --> 01:16:40,542
until he ended up
in the hospital,
1698
01:16:40,626 --> 01:16:42,542
was that he did have
heart problems.
1699
01:16:42,626 --> 01:16:45,167
I didn't know that
in the beginning.
1700
01:16:45,250 --> 01:16:49,500
There were a few times when
he needed stents in his heart
1701
01:16:49,584 --> 01:16:53,959
and a few times when I had to
drive through every red light
1702
01:16:54,042 --> 01:16:57,334
there was
to get to the hospital in time.
1703
01:16:59,042 --> 01:17:04,167
And we were just able
to manage that somehow.
1704
01:17:13,459 --> 01:17:14,876
The closer you get to death,
1705
01:17:14,959 --> 01:17:18,000
the more you think
there's something there.
1706
01:17:18,959 --> 01:17:20,542
He didn't believe in a sky God,
1707
01:17:20,626 --> 01:17:25,792
but he was spiritual
in a way that meant magic
1708
01:17:25,876 --> 01:17:27,792
and positive things happening.
1709
01:17:27,876 --> 01:17:30,918
Like, he always had
a stage crystal with him.
1710
01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:32,542
And I think
most people would agree...
1711
01:17:32,626 --> 01:17:34,000
SALLY:
So, when he was performing,
1712
01:17:34,083 --> 01:17:36,834
he had that kind of magic
in his pocket.
1713
01:17:36,918 --> 01:17:39,083
And he could draw from that.
1714
01:17:39,167 --> 01:17:41,125
...I'll bet you can have
an all-suicide channel
1715
01:17:41,209 --> 01:17:42,584
-in this country.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1716
01:17:42,667 --> 01:17:45,000
I bet you. Well, shit,
they got all-golf.
1717
01:17:45,083 --> 01:17:48,459
-What the fuck? Goddamn.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1718
01:17:48,542 --> 01:17:50,584
JEFF: George washaving health problems,
1719
01:17:50,667 --> 01:17:53,751
checking himself into hospitals
with heart conditions.
1720
01:17:53,834 --> 01:17:56,542
And I remember seeing George
at the Comedy & Magic Club.
1721
01:17:56,626 --> 01:17:58,626
He pulled into the parking lot
at 7:00.
1722
01:17:58,709 --> 01:18:00,334
I pulled in like at 7:01.
1723
01:18:00,417 --> 01:18:02,209
So our cars were there
at the same time.
1724
01:18:02,292 --> 01:18:04,250
I go, "George, how you doing?"
1725
01:18:04,334 --> 01:18:07,042
He goes, "Oh, I just came back
from the doctor."
1726
01:18:07,125 --> 01:18:09,334
And he lifted up his shirt...
1727
01:18:09,417 --> 01:18:11,792
and it looked like
a science project.
1728
01:18:11,876 --> 01:18:13,083
It looked like
something out of Alien.
1729
01:18:13,167 --> 01:18:16,542
It was black and blue
with scars, and this is a man
1730
01:18:16,626 --> 01:18:18,751
who had his chest open
a number of times.
1731
01:18:18,834 --> 01:18:20,000
Oh, what he went through.
1732
01:18:20,083 --> 01:18:21,918
We're gonna start at the bottom
with the homeless people
1733
01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:23,334
because nobody gives a fuck
about them.
1734
01:18:23,417 --> 01:18:24,500
Ain't nobody
got no money for them.
1735
01:18:24,584 --> 01:18:25,959
They have no plans.
They got no ideas.
1736
01:18:26,042 --> 01:18:27,918
They got nobody. Five hundred
thousand of them are veterans,
1737
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:29,834
and they still don't give a fuck
about these people...
1738
01:18:29,918 --> 01:18:32,876
KELLY: I hadn't seen himfor about three months.
1739
01:18:32,959 --> 01:18:35,000
And by the way, there's another
bunch of homeless coming soon
1740
01:18:35,083 --> 01:18:37,626
when the housing bubble bursts
and the dollar gets devalued
1741
01:18:37,709 --> 01:18:39,542
and you get a lot of
middle-class homeless assholes,
1742
01:18:39,626 --> 01:18:40,792
and they'll be in there too.
1743
01:18:40,876 --> 01:18:43,876
KELLY: And he is going to dothis big HBO special.
1744
01:18:43,959 --> 01:18:46,042
And he never let me see
his HBO stuff
1745
01:18:46,125 --> 01:18:48,042
before the actual taping.
1746
01:18:48,959 --> 01:18:50,709
And I walk
into his dressing room
1747
01:18:50,792 --> 01:18:54,375
and his back is to me
and I see this person
1748
01:18:54,459 --> 01:18:56,250
standing in front of me
and I think,
1749
01:18:56,334 --> 01:18:59,584
"Who's that elderly man?"
First thought in my head was,
1750
01:18:59,667 --> 01:19:01,000
"Who's that--
Who's this this old guy
1751
01:19:01,083 --> 01:19:02,250
in my dad's dressing room?"
1752
01:19:02,334 --> 01:19:05,792
And he turns around
and he is noticeably shorter,
1753
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:09,709
and he is puffy,
1754
01:19:09,792 --> 01:19:12,209
and he's having
difficulty breathing.
1755
01:19:12,292 --> 01:19:13,584
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
1756
01:19:13,667 --> 01:19:16,375
KELLY: I thought to myself,"There's no way
1757
01:19:16,459 --> 01:19:18,709
he's about to go on stage
and do an HBO special.
1758
01:19:18,792 --> 01:19:20,959
"There's no way he's going to
make it through it."
1759
01:19:24,500 --> 01:19:26,000
Assassination.
1760
01:19:26,083 --> 01:19:28,083
You know what's interesting
about assassination?
1761
01:19:28,167 --> 01:19:31,167
Well, not only does it
change those popularity polls
1762
01:19:31,250 --> 01:19:32,334
in a big fucking hurry,
1763
01:19:34,042 --> 01:19:35,250
but it's also interesting
to notice
1764
01:19:35,334 --> 01:19:36,751
who it is we assassinate.
1765
01:19:36,834 --> 01:19:39,667
Do you ever notice who it is?
Stop to think who it is we kill?
1766
01:19:39,751 --> 01:19:41,125
It's always people
who've told us
1767
01:19:41,209 --> 01:19:44,375
to live together in harmony
and try to love one another.
1768
01:19:44,459 --> 01:19:47,709
Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln,
John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy,
1769
01:19:47,792 --> 01:19:49,500
Martin Luther King,
Medgar Evers,
1770
01:19:49,584 --> 01:19:50,918
Malcolm X, John Lennon.
1771
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:54,292
They all said, "Try to live
together peacefully." Bam!
1772
01:19:54,375 --> 01:19:57,125
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
-Right in the fucking head.
1773
01:19:59,542 --> 01:20:00,500
It did go really dark.
1774
01:20:00,584 --> 01:20:01,876
He didn't think
it went really dark.
1775
01:20:01,959 --> 01:20:05,375
He went really dark.
And he lost me a bit at the end.
1776
01:20:05,459 --> 01:20:06,542
It was too dark for me.
1777
01:20:06,626 --> 01:20:08,709
I like things
that are excessive.
1778
01:20:08,792 --> 01:20:11,584
I like excessive behavior,
excessive language,
1779
01:20:11,667 --> 01:20:15,959
excessive violence. It's fun.
It's interesting. It's exciting.
1780
01:20:16,042 --> 01:20:18,459
I like it
when nature is excessive.
1781
01:20:18,542 --> 01:20:21,334
That's why
I like natural disasters.
1782
01:20:21,417 --> 01:20:23,667
All these natural disasters
that have been going on,
1783
01:20:23,751 --> 01:20:27,834
I fucking love them.
I can't get enough of them.
1784
01:20:27,918 --> 01:20:30,834
If it's a bit,
then God bless him.
1785
01:20:30,918 --> 01:20:35,167
For... Or whatever. Nothing
bless him, as he might prefer,
1786
01:20:35,250 --> 01:20:39,083
but to pursue
that level of darkness...
1787
01:20:41,500 --> 01:20:43,417
in the hope that actually
it would point
1788
01:20:43,500 --> 01:20:45,459
toward something hopeful
1789
01:20:45,542 --> 01:20:48,292
is expecting a lot
from your audience.
1790
01:20:48,375 --> 01:20:49,417
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1791
01:20:49,500 --> 01:20:51,751
Because all you're stating
is the dark part.
1792
01:20:51,834 --> 01:20:55,584
For centuries now,
man has done everything he can
1793
01:20:55,667 --> 01:20:59,209
to destroy, defile,
and interfere with nature,
1794
01:20:59,292 --> 01:21:02,375
so when nature strikes back
and smacks man in the head
1795
01:21:02,459 --> 01:21:05,709
and kicks him in the nuts,
I enjoy that.
1796
01:21:05,792 --> 01:21:09,417
I have absolutely no sympathy
for human beings whatsoever.
1797
01:21:09,500 --> 01:21:11,042
None.
1798
01:21:11,125 --> 01:21:12,876
You know what makes me happy?
1799
01:21:12,959 --> 01:21:15,125
Watching my species
destroy itself.
1800
01:21:15,209 --> 01:21:18,792
I really, I take it as a sport,
as a kind of a hobby
1801
01:21:18,876 --> 01:21:22,334
and I root for the complete
destruction of this culture
1802
01:21:22,417 --> 01:21:23,459
that we live in.
1803
01:21:23,542 --> 01:21:26,209
I root for underdogs,
I root for nature.
1804
01:21:26,292 --> 01:21:28,292
Because on this planet,
at this time,
1805
01:21:28,375 --> 01:21:30,292
nature is the underdog.
1806
01:21:30,375 --> 01:21:32,250
You know the best thing
I can hear on television?
1807
01:21:32,334 --> 01:21:35,584
-"We interrupt this program."
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, CHEERING)
1808
01:21:35,667 --> 01:21:38,626
You know the worst thing
I can hear? "No one was hurt."
1809
01:21:38,709 --> 01:21:42,042
George's next special,
November 17th on HBO Live.
1810
01:21:42,125 --> 01:21:43,125
What are you calling it?
1811
01:21:43,209 --> 01:21:45,584
I Kinda Like It
When a Lot of People Die.
1812
01:21:45,667 --> 01:21:48,334
No, he did not like it
when a lot of people died.
1813
01:21:48,417 --> 01:21:50,250
He did like it
when a lot of people died.
1814
01:21:50,334 --> 01:21:52,500
GEORGE: I kinda like itwhen a lot of people die.
1815
01:21:52,584 --> 01:21:55,918
Some people like needlepoint,
some people like miniature golf,
1816
01:21:56,000 --> 01:21:57,667
doing the mambo, shit like that.
1817
01:21:57,751 --> 01:22:00,000
-Me, I like a nice train wreck.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1818
01:22:00,083 --> 01:22:02,959
I always hope
things are going to get worse.
1819
01:22:03,042 --> 01:22:05,459
Don't you?
Don't you secretly hope
1820
01:22:05,542 --> 01:22:07,083
that everything gets worse?
1821
01:22:07,167 --> 01:22:11,250
When you see a big fire on TV,
don't you hope it spreads?
1822
01:22:11,334 --> 01:22:14,000
Are you on the verge of losing
your temper or are you...
1823
01:22:14,083 --> 01:22:15,834
-You're shaking your head.
-No, it's not that.
1824
01:22:15,918 --> 01:22:17,042
It's-- It's a contempt.
1825
01:22:17,125 --> 01:22:20,751
I really think
this species is a foolish,
1826
01:22:20,834 --> 01:22:24,876
failed species that has
organized itself poorly.
1827
01:22:24,959 --> 01:22:28,292
And I think this culture
in particular leads the way.
1828
01:22:28,375 --> 01:22:30,751
I think we have put property
ahead of people,
1829
01:22:30,834 --> 01:22:33,626
we have put competition
ahead of cooperation,
1830
01:22:33,709 --> 01:22:35,792
and I don't think the balance
can ever be
1831
01:22:35,876 --> 01:22:37,292
brought back into line.
1832
01:22:37,375 --> 01:22:39,292
You know, philosophers say,
"Why are we here?
1833
01:22:39,375 --> 01:22:42,292
What is this all about?"
I'm here for the entertainment.
1834
01:22:42,375 --> 01:22:44,000
Fuck these humans.
Let them do their thing.
1835
01:22:44,083 --> 01:22:46,167
I'll watch.
It's fun. I'm out here.
1836
01:22:46,250 --> 01:22:48,250
I have no stake
in the outcome anymore.
1837
01:22:48,334 --> 01:22:50,000
I don't care
what happens to you.
1838
01:22:50,083 --> 01:22:51,459
I don't care
what happens to your country.
1839
01:22:51,542 --> 01:22:53,042
I don't care
what happens to your species.
1840
01:22:53,125 --> 01:22:54,209
You can go get fucked.
1841
01:22:54,292 --> 01:22:56,417
Because it's fun to watch you
destroy each other.
1842
01:22:56,500 --> 01:23:01,459
-It's entertaining. Look at...
-(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1843
01:23:01,542 --> 01:23:03,250
You got any dates
you want to push?
1844
01:23:03,334 --> 01:23:04,918
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
-GEORGE: Yeah, right.
1845
01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:06,626
I'm not interested
in the budget.
1846
01:23:06,709 --> 01:23:08,667
I don't care
about tax negotiations.
1847
01:23:08,751 --> 01:23:10,000
I don't want to know
what country
1848
01:23:10,083 --> 01:23:11,667
the fucking pope is in,
1849
01:23:11,751 --> 01:23:13,667
but you show me a hospital
that's on fire,
1850
01:23:13,751 --> 01:23:15,584
and people on crutches
are jumping off the roof,
1851
01:23:15,667 --> 01:23:17,000
and I'm a happy guy!
1852
01:23:17,083 --> 01:23:20,167
-(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
-I'm a happy guy!
1853
01:23:20,250 --> 01:23:22,334
HASAN: One of the things I'mstill trying to figure out is,
1854
01:23:22,417 --> 01:23:28,250
was Carlin ultimately a nihilist
or was he an actual optimist
1855
01:23:28,334 --> 01:23:33,459
who was using comedy
to display a nihilist worldview?
1856
01:23:33,542 --> 01:23:36,083
Sirens, flames, smoke, bodies,
graves being filled,
1857
01:23:36,167 --> 01:23:37,751
parents weeping,
exciting shit, my kind of TV...
1858
01:23:37,834 --> 01:23:40,417
-HASAN: Is he the Joker?
-I just want some entertainment,
1859
01:23:40,500 --> 01:23:41,834
It's just the kind of guy I am!
1860
01:23:41,918 --> 01:23:43,626
-It's the kind of guy I am!
-HASAN: Is he happy?
1861
01:23:43,709 --> 01:23:46,876
(CHUCKLES) Like, shit is
unraveling in front of our eyes.
1862
01:23:46,959 --> 01:23:48,417
Most people won't admit
to those feelings.
1863
01:23:48,500 --> 01:23:50,167
Most people see something
like that on television,
1864
01:23:50,250 --> 01:23:52,417
they'll say, "Oh, isn't that
awful? Isn't that too bad?"
1865
01:23:52,500 --> 01:23:54,083
(BLOWS RASPBERRY)
Lying asshole.
1866
01:23:54,167 --> 01:23:56,417
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING)
-Lying assholes.
1867
01:23:56,500 --> 01:23:59,125
GEORGE: This is what I root for.This is my joy.
1868
01:23:59,209 --> 01:24:01,709
Wait till I do my next show,
you got to see the next one.
1869
01:24:01,792 --> 01:24:05,167
Two years from now,
tune in. It's called Fuck Hope.
1870
01:24:08,250 --> 01:24:09,959
That was fun.
Try to use a lot of that.
1871
01:24:10,042 --> 01:24:11,042
(FILM CREW LAUGHING)
1872
01:24:11,125 --> 01:24:12,709
GEORGE: You know,
it's just, it's how I am.
1873
01:24:12,792 --> 01:24:15,792
It's how I feel. It's so real.
You could tell.
1874
01:24:15,876 --> 01:24:18,042
It was really evident
from the first time I met him
1875
01:24:18,125 --> 01:24:19,417
that he was fully committed
1876
01:24:19,500 --> 01:24:23,042
to, like, whatever that fuse was
that he lit.
1877
01:24:23,125 --> 01:24:25,250
Probably back in high school,
if not before,
1878
01:24:25,334 --> 01:24:28,918
that he never ever stomped out.
And then over the years,
1879
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:33,584
I just watched that, sort of,
get overtaken by a ferocity.
1880
01:24:33,667 --> 01:24:36,417
You know, it wasn't really
just a bitterness.
1881
01:24:36,500 --> 01:24:38,250
It was just a ferocity.
It was just like,
1882
01:24:38,334 --> 01:24:39,751
"This world is fucked up
1883
01:24:39,834 --> 01:24:41,751
and no one's doing
anything about it,"
1884
01:24:41,834 --> 01:24:44,459
and like, "I've tried to explore"
1885
01:24:44,542 --> 01:24:47,417
the human condition,
and I've come up fucking empty."
1886
01:24:47,500 --> 01:24:51,167
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1887
01:24:51,250 --> 01:24:53,042
-♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
-GEORGE: Gertie, Gertie.
1888
01:24:53,125 --> 01:24:54,792
Good girl. Yes.
1889
01:24:54,876 --> 01:24:58,626
The movie star Gertie.
Oh, you is a good girl.
1890
01:24:58,709 --> 01:25:01,667
I know you want to say,
"Is he goofy?"
1891
01:25:01,751 --> 01:25:05,042
SALLY: People have differentaspects of themselves.
1892
01:25:05,125 --> 01:25:07,334
And they have
different identities.
1893
01:25:07,417 --> 01:25:09,167
GEORGE: Gertrude says,
"I got to go now.
1894
01:25:09,250 --> 01:25:10,959
I got business downtown."
1895
01:25:11,042 --> 01:25:14,292
He would express all this anger
on stage,
1896
01:25:14,375 --> 01:25:18,959
and then walk off. That's it.
1897
01:25:19,042 --> 01:25:22,125
That's my anger.
Here's a big pile of it.
1898
01:25:22,209 --> 01:25:24,042
You guys deal with it.
1899
01:25:24,125 --> 01:25:26,250
I'll be your guide to this tape.
1900
01:25:26,334 --> 01:25:28,250
One of the patients here
has been wanting me
1901
01:25:28,334 --> 01:25:30,250
to make a tape for a long time.
1902
01:25:30,334 --> 01:25:33,042
A lot of people like to say
he got bitter when he was old
1903
01:25:33,125 --> 01:25:34,667
and all that shit.
1904
01:25:34,751 --> 01:25:39,250
Bullshit. He got tired
of the fucking people,
1905
01:25:39,334 --> 01:25:41,375
the fucking stupidity,
1906
01:25:41,459 --> 01:25:48,000
and the just hopelessness
of expecting anything from them.
1907
01:25:48,083 --> 01:25:50,500
He gave up. He gave up.
1908
01:25:50,584 --> 01:25:54,167
I'm not a shrink. (CHUCKLES)
I'm not a fucking shrink,
1909
01:25:54,250 --> 01:26:00,417
but I sensed the disappointment
in the human race.
1910
01:26:01,417 --> 01:26:05,125
And it hurt him, I'm sure.
1911
01:26:08,209 --> 01:26:10,834
KELLY:
It was rare moments in our life
1912
01:26:10,918 --> 01:26:16,417
when he would be settled,
fully present,
1913
01:26:16,500 --> 01:26:20,083
but we had these breakfasts
we would have,
1914
01:26:20,167 --> 01:26:22,083
and he would
put the world aside.
1915
01:26:23,500 --> 01:26:25,167
I'd been wrestling a lot
1916
01:26:25,250 --> 01:26:29,709
with his darker take
on humanity.
1917
01:26:29,792 --> 01:26:32,000
And, I finally just said to him,
I said,
1918
01:26:32,083 --> 01:26:34,042
"Dad, if you've really given up,
1919
01:26:34,959 --> 01:26:37,709
then why the fuck do you
get on stage?
1920
01:26:37,792 --> 01:26:40,459
Why do you bother? Like, really?
1921
01:26:40,542 --> 01:26:43,792
Like, is this just an ego thing?
Like, is this just about you
1922
01:26:43,876 --> 01:26:47,125
"satisfying yourself?
Clearly not."
1923
01:26:47,209 --> 01:26:50,209
And I felt like he had to
fess up to me.
1924
01:26:50,292 --> 01:26:54,083
He was like, "You know,
you've got me there."
1925
01:26:56,542 --> 01:27:00,125
I really believe
that he was always
1926
01:27:00,209 --> 01:27:02,876
trying to be in service
of some way
1927
01:27:02,959 --> 01:27:06,959
to this species, and it is hard.
It is really hard
1928
01:27:07,042 --> 01:27:09,334
keeping your heart open
for that.
1929
01:27:10,626 --> 01:27:13,292
When I listen to your comedy,
I don't get the feeling that,
1930
01:27:13,375 --> 01:27:16,417
you know, that you have
that no hope thing.
1931
01:27:16,500 --> 01:27:17,918
-I get just the opposite.
-GEORGE: Really?
1932
01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:19,709
HOST: I think you've got
a big defense thing going
1933
01:27:19,792 --> 01:27:22,000
because you really are
the hopeful guy.
1934
01:27:22,083 --> 01:27:24,417
I think you really are the guy
who really believes
1935
01:27:24,500 --> 01:27:26,375
-all the good of humanity.
-I do that. I do that.
1936
01:27:26,459 --> 01:27:29,042
-HOST: I know. It's all
the opposite of what you think.
-I believe as an individual.
1937
01:27:29,125 --> 01:27:30,209
HOST: You're coming in
a mirror way.
1938
01:27:30,292 --> 01:27:31,751
I know you're coming
in the back door.
1939
01:27:31,834 --> 01:27:32,959
All comics do it,
1940
01:27:33,042 --> 01:27:36,083
but I think you are
a very high spiritual person.
1941
01:27:36,167 --> 01:27:38,000
Well, they say
if you scratch a cynic,
1942
01:27:38,083 --> 01:27:40,000
you'll find
a disappointed idealist.
1943
01:27:40,083 --> 01:27:41,959
-HOST: Right.
-And I do cop to that.
1944
01:27:42,042 --> 01:27:44,167
I am that. And you're right.
1945
01:27:44,250 --> 01:27:46,209
That's a very intelligent
analysis.
1946
01:27:46,292 --> 01:27:48,000
And I've gone through that
without using the words
1947
01:27:48,083 --> 01:27:49,876
you used. I've gone
through that myself.
1948
01:27:49,959 --> 01:27:51,918
Thought about myself
in those terms,
1949
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:53,626
but it's more fun this way.
1950
01:28:01,209 --> 01:28:02,500
STEVEN WRIGHT:
He's on the Mount Rushmore
1951
01:28:02,584 --> 01:28:05,292
of creative artists
in this country.
1952
01:28:05,375 --> 01:28:06,751
Any kind of art.
1953
01:28:06,834 --> 01:28:11,083
And he was always nice.
He was always very supportive.
1954
01:28:11,167 --> 01:28:13,000
You felt like he was your buddy.
1955
01:28:13,083 --> 01:28:15,125
And you were a comedian,
he's a comedian.
1956
01:28:15,209 --> 01:28:17,375
You're two guys
doing this thing.
1957
01:28:17,459 --> 01:28:20,959
You were in the same boat
with him. You were with him.
1958
01:28:21,042 --> 01:28:23,209
He would even mail me a joke.
1959
01:28:23,292 --> 01:28:25,918
He'd write it down
and mail it to me,
1960
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:31,000
but he's like a...
you know, like a great painter.
1961
01:28:31,083 --> 01:28:34,667
Like a Rembrandt of comedy.
You know, there's Rembrandt
1962
01:28:34,751 --> 01:28:38,709
and then this guy's doing
a postcard of a sailboat.
1963
01:28:42,125 --> 01:28:43,834
(LAUGHS)
1964
01:28:43,918 --> 01:28:46,125
GEORGE:
This is workshop night for me.
1965
01:28:46,209 --> 01:28:47,751
Roll with it.
Just listen to the words.
1966
01:28:47,834 --> 01:28:49,125
That's what I want you doing.
1967
01:28:49,209 --> 01:28:51,250
I'm reading and I'm kind of
fucked up on where I'm going,
1968
01:28:51,334 --> 01:28:53,334
just listen to the words,
because this shit, I love it,
1969
01:28:53,417 --> 01:28:55,083
but I don't know it all yet,
okay?
1970
01:28:55,167 --> 01:28:56,292
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1971
01:28:56,375 --> 01:28:58,334
If you follow your heart,
if you do the right thing,
1972
01:28:58,417 --> 01:28:59,918
if you do what's on your mind,
1973
01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:01,250
and in your heart,
and in your brain,
1974
01:29:01,334 --> 01:29:03,167
or whatever
you want to say about it,
1975
01:29:03,250 --> 01:29:06,751
good things will happen from it.
Good things will come.
1976
01:29:06,834 --> 01:29:08,959
By the way, I'm not trying
this stuff out on you.
1977
01:29:09,042 --> 01:29:11,250
I'm not trying it.
I don't do that.
1978
01:29:11,334 --> 01:29:14,292
The audience doesn't
really figure into my plans.
1979
01:29:14,375 --> 01:29:17,584
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1980
01:29:17,667 --> 01:29:19,751
Here's the way I look at it,
I'm here for me,
1981
01:29:19,834 --> 01:29:22,334
you're here for me
and no one's here for you.
1982
01:29:22,417 --> 01:29:24,042
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING)
-Okay?
1983
01:29:24,125 --> 01:29:27,584
By just doing what pleased me
in these shows, I had an effect.
1984
01:29:27,667 --> 01:29:30,292
The kind of effect that I can't
have on people in Darfur.
1985
01:29:30,375 --> 01:29:33,792
Even if I give money, if I send
all my old sweaters to Darfur,
1986
01:29:33,876 --> 01:29:35,709
it will not have
the effect on them
1987
01:29:35,792 --> 01:29:37,542
that one person
sitting and listening
1988
01:29:37,626 --> 01:29:38,876
when he's 12 years old,
1989
01:29:38,959 --> 01:29:40,876
and I've heard them
from people of all ages,
1990
01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:42,292
and I've heard them
from parents.
1991
01:29:42,375 --> 01:29:44,751
I've heard parents say,
"My kid saw that show.
1992
01:29:44,834 --> 01:29:46,334
This and that.
His marks got better."
1993
01:29:46,417 --> 01:29:48,542
I swear to God.
I hear this kind of shit.
1994
01:29:48,626 --> 01:29:50,751
And that gave me such power.
1995
01:29:50,834 --> 01:29:53,584
I don't mean power to use,
power to have.
1996
01:29:53,667 --> 01:29:57,667
Gave me such a feeling of,
"Yeah, man.
1997
01:29:57,751 --> 01:30:00,792
I'm okay. I'm fucking okay."
1998
01:30:02,042 --> 01:30:04,959
DIRECTOR:
Okay. We're still rolling, guys.
1999
01:30:06,667 --> 01:30:10,751
And we're in the shot.
And, George.
2000
01:30:10,834 --> 01:30:13,000
Now, the last time
I rolled through these parts,
2001
01:30:13,083 --> 01:30:15,334
and I do roll through
with some frequency,
2002
01:30:15,417 --> 01:30:18,417
I'm a little bit like herpes,
I keep coming back,
2003
01:30:18,500 --> 01:30:19,417
but since the last time
2004
01:30:19,500 --> 01:30:21,417
I might have seen
some of you folks,
2005
01:30:21,500 --> 01:30:23,584
I've had my 70th birthday.
2006
01:30:23,667 --> 01:30:27,709
So I'm now 70 years old,
and I like 70.
2007
01:30:27,792 --> 01:30:29,876
Not as much as I like 69.
2008
01:30:29,959 --> 01:30:32,709
Well, 69 was always
my favorite number,
2009
01:30:32,792 --> 01:30:36,292
but now I figure I'm 69
with one finger up my ass.
2010
01:30:36,375 --> 01:30:37,334
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
2011
01:30:37,417 --> 01:30:39,626
GEORGE:
What I am is an old fuck.
2012
01:30:39,709 --> 01:30:41,667
It's like a fat fuck.
2013
01:30:41,751 --> 01:30:44,584
Fat fuck, tall fuck,
skinny fuck, short fuck,
2014
01:30:44,667 --> 01:30:46,918
but now that I'm an old fuck,
I'm beginning to notice
2015
01:30:47,000 --> 01:30:50,250
there are some advantages
to putting on a few extra years.
2016
01:30:50,334 --> 01:30:51,459
The first one is,
2017
01:30:51,542 --> 01:30:54,292
you never have to carry
anything heavy ever again.
2018
01:30:54,375 --> 01:30:55,250
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
2019
01:30:55,334 --> 01:30:58,417
Everybody wants to
help an old fuck.
2020
01:30:58,500 --> 01:31:00,459
If you got a big suitcase
or something like that,
2021
01:31:00,542 --> 01:31:02,375
you just kinda
go like this a little bit.
2022
01:31:02,459 --> 01:31:04,083
You say, "Yeah,
could you help me with this?"
2023
01:31:04,167 --> 01:31:06,417
They say, "Yeah. Hey, how far
are you going?" "Indianapolis."
2024
01:31:06,500 --> 01:31:08,584
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
2025
01:31:08,667 --> 01:31:12,709
I still refer to him
all the time, which for a comic,
2026
01:31:12,792 --> 01:31:18,709
I mean, you know... Comedy is so
ephemeral in so many ways.
2027
01:31:18,792 --> 01:31:20,626
It takes him out
of the class of pop star
2028
01:31:20,709 --> 01:31:23,792
and puts him in the class of,
like, Bach and Beethoven,
2029
01:31:23,876 --> 01:31:24,918
and classicists.
2030
01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:29,626
People that created something
that was timeless,
2031
01:31:29,709 --> 01:31:31,667
because it wasn't based
on the moment,
2032
01:31:31,751 --> 01:31:33,375
it was based on a deeper truth.
2033
01:31:33,459 --> 01:31:35,667
But the best thing
about getting old is,
2034
01:31:35,751 --> 01:31:39,042
you're not responsible
for remembering things anymore.
2035
01:31:39,959 --> 01:31:41,667
Even important things.
2036
01:31:41,751 --> 01:31:44,417
"But it was
your daughter's funeral."
2037
01:31:44,500 --> 01:31:48,250
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
2038
01:31:48,334 --> 01:31:50,626
-I forgot.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
2039
01:31:50,709 --> 01:31:54,083
Oh, every time there's some
weird psychopathic news story
2040
01:31:54,167 --> 01:31:55,417
that happens, people are like,
2041
01:31:55,500 --> 01:31:58,167
"Oh, I wish George Carlin
were here to talk about that."
2042
01:31:58,250 --> 01:32:01,834
(CHUCKLES) It almost seems like
the weirder things get in life,
2043
01:32:01,918 --> 01:32:04,000
the more you want to hear
the voice of George Carlin
2044
01:32:04,083 --> 01:32:05,209
talking about it.
2045
01:32:05,292 --> 01:32:08,876
Even God can go
on sensory overload.
2046
01:32:08,959 --> 01:32:12,209
That's why he wanted
one day off a week.
2047
01:32:12,292 --> 01:32:16,042
Christians gave him Sunday,
Jews gave him Saturday,
2048
01:32:16,125 --> 01:32:20,876
Muslims gave him Friday.
God has a three-day weekend.
2049
01:32:20,959 --> 01:32:22,542
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
2050
01:32:22,626 --> 01:32:23,876
I mean, we all love Lenny Bruce,
2051
01:32:23,959 --> 01:32:26,375
but nobody's sharing
a Lenny Bruce bit to explain
2052
01:32:26,459 --> 01:32:28,584
anything that's happening
in the culture right now.
2053
01:32:28,667 --> 01:32:30,792
You know,
there's lots of comedians
2054
01:32:30,876 --> 01:32:32,334
from even ten, 15 years ago
2055
01:32:32,417 --> 01:32:34,167
where we're sort of
done with their things
2056
01:32:34,250 --> 01:32:35,459
as being relevant to now.
2057
01:32:35,542 --> 01:32:37,626
There's enough bullshit
as it is...
2058
01:32:37,709 --> 01:32:39,375
W. KAMAU BELL:
He was still a comedian
2059
01:32:39,459 --> 01:32:41,709
that the culture as a whole
cared about
2060
01:32:41,792 --> 01:32:43,709
up until his last special.
2061
01:32:43,792 --> 01:32:45,626
...there's just enough bullshit
2062
01:32:45,709 --> 01:32:49,125
to hold things together
in this country.
2063
01:32:49,209 --> 01:32:54,167
Bullshit is the glue
that binds us as a nation.
2064
01:32:54,250 --> 01:32:57,167
Where would we be
without our safe,
2065
01:32:57,250 --> 01:32:59,751
familiar, American bullshit?
2066
01:32:59,834 --> 01:33:00,792
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
2067
01:33:00,876 --> 01:33:02,083
GEORGE:
America's leading industry
2068
01:33:02,167 --> 01:33:05,083
is still the manufacture,
distribution, packaging
2069
01:33:05,167 --> 01:33:07,417
-and marketing of bullshit.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
2070
01:33:07,500 --> 01:33:10,042
This country was founded
by a group of slave owners
2071
01:33:10,125 --> 01:33:12,459
who told us that all men
are created equal.
2072
01:33:12,542 --> 01:33:16,876
That is what's known as
being stunningly full of shit.
2073
01:33:16,959 --> 01:33:17,959
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
2074
01:33:18,042 --> 01:33:19,375
GEORGE: There's a reasoneducation sucks,
2075
01:33:19,459 --> 01:33:21,334
and it's the same reason
that it will never,
2076
01:33:21,417 --> 01:33:22,542
ever be fixed.
2077
01:33:22,626 --> 01:33:25,876
Because the owners
of this country don't want that.
2078
01:33:25,959 --> 01:33:28,167
This country is owned
by eight or nine hundred people
2079
01:33:28,250 --> 01:33:29,667
who run everything,
do everything,
2080
01:33:29,751 --> 01:33:32,751
control everything.
It's all one big ownership class
2081
01:33:32,834 --> 01:33:33,792
in this country.
2082
01:33:33,876 --> 01:33:35,125
We're led to feel free
2083
01:33:35,209 --> 01:33:37,542
by the exercise
of meaningless choices.
2084
01:33:37,626 --> 01:33:40,125
Ice cream flavors,
what do you want? We got 31.
2085
01:33:40,209 --> 01:33:42,626
Got the flavor of the week,
got the flavor of the month.
2086
01:33:42,709 --> 01:33:45,125
But political parties,
we're down to two.
2087
01:33:45,209 --> 01:33:46,834
Politicians are put there
to give you the idea
2088
01:33:46,918 --> 01:33:50,542
that you have freedom of choice.
You don't. You have owners.
2089
01:33:50,626 --> 01:33:51,834
They own you.
2090
01:33:51,918 --> 01:33:53,792
They own and control
the corporations.
2091
01:33:53,876 --> 01:33:55,709
They've long since bought
and paid for the Senate,
2092
01:33:55,792 --> 01:33:57,334
the Congress, the state houses,
the city halls.
2093
01:33:57,417 --> 01:33:59,209
They got the judges
in their back pockets,
2094
01:33:59,292 --> 01:34:00,876
and they own
all the big media companies,
2095
01:34:00,959 --> 01:34:02,542
so they control
just about all of the news
2096
01:34:02,626 --> 01:34:06,250
and information you get to hear.
They got you by the balls.
2097
01:34:07,459 --> 01:34:09,292
It's a big club...
2098
01:34:09,918 --> 01:34:11,626
and you ain't in it.
2099
01:34:11,709 --> 01:34:14,000
Nobody questions things
in this country anymore.
2100
01:34:14,083 --> 01:34:17,709
Americans have been bought off
and silenced by toys and gizmos
2101
01:34:17,792 --> 01:34:20,375
with our microwave hot dogs
and plastic vomit,
2102
01:34:20,459 --> 01:34:22,667
fake dog shit,
and cinnamon dental floss,
2103
01:34:22,751 --> 01:34:24,542
and lemon-scented toilet paper,
2104
01:34:24,626 --> 01:34:26,042
and sneakers
with lights in the heels.
2105
01:34:26,125 --> 01:34:27,751
-♪ (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
-(CROWD CLAMORING)
2106
01:34:27,834 --> 01:34:29,667
GEORGE: Millionsof semi-conscious Americans
2107
01:34:29,751 --> 01:34:32,083
day after day,
shopping and eating.
2108
01:34:32,167 --> 01:34:33,918
It is the new national pastime.
2109
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:36,292
Fuck baseball. It's consumption.
2110
01:34:36,375 --> 01:34:39,083
So, where do people think
these politicians come from?
2111
01:34:39,167 --> 01:34:40,292
They come from American parents
2112
01:34:40,375 --> 01:34:41,709
and American families,
American homes,
2113
01:34:41,792 --> 01:34:43,584
American schools,
American churches,
2114
01:34:43,667 --> 01:34:45,500
American businesses,
and American universities,
2115
01:34:45,584 --> 01:34:48,167
and they're elected
by American citizens.
2116
01:34:48,250 --> 01:34:50,876
This is the best
we can do, folks.
2117
01:34:50,959 --> 01:34:55,042
This is what we have to offer.
It's what our system produces.
2118
01:34:55,125 --> 01:34:58,250
-Garbage in, garbage out.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
2119
01:34:58,334 --> 01:35:00,209
GEORGE: If you have selfish,ignorant citizens,
2120
01:35:00,292 --> 01:35:02,334
you're going to get selfish,
ignorant leaders.
2121
01:35:02,417 --> 01:35:03,542
Machine gun bacon.
2122
01:35:03,626 --> 01:35:05,042
GEORGE:
That's what the owners count on.
2123
01:35:05,125 --> 01:35:08,959
They want obedient workers.
People who are just smart enough
2124
01:35:09,042 --> 01:35:10,834
to run the machines
and do the paperwork,
2125
01:35:10,918 --> 01:35:13,459
and just dumb enough
to passively accept
2126
01:35:13,542 --> 01:35:15,500
all these
increasingly shittier jobs
2127
01:35:15,584 --> 01:35:17,042
with the lower pay,
the longer hours,
2128
01:35:17,125 --> 01:35:19,292
the reduced benefits,
the end of overtime
2129
01:35:19,375 --> 01:35:22,125
and now, they want
your fucking retirement money.
2130
01:35:22,209 --> 01:35:23,959
-They want it back.
-(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
2131
01:35:24,042 --> 01:35:25,626
So they can give it
to their criminal friends
2132
01:35:25,709 --> 01:35:27,709
-on Wall Street.
-♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
2133
01:35:27,792 --> 01:35:29,125
GEORGE: Of course,there's a reason why
2134
01:35:29,209 --> 01:35:30,167
we're all drugged.
2135
01:35:30,250 --> 01:35:31,584
The drug companies
want it that way.
2136
01:35:31,667 --> 01:35:33,375
The drug industry has us
taking things to get awake,
2137
01:35:33,459 --> 01:35:35,209
things to go to sleep,
things to pep up,
2138
01:35:35,292 --> 01:35:37,250
things to forget about the grief
you had from something.
2139
01:35:37,334 --> 01:35:38,626
"There's a drug problem
in this country."
2140
01:35:38,709 --> 01:35:40,125
Where do you hear that?
At the drugstore.
2141
01:35:40,209 --> 01:35:41,459
-(ALL LAUGH)
-(MISSILE BLASTS)
2142
01:35:41,542 --> 01:35:43,167
GEORGE: You don't have tobe a political scientist
2143
01:35:43,250 --> 01:35:46,209
to see the bigger dick
foreign policy theory at work.
2144
01:35:46,292 --> 01:35:47,667
It goes something like this,
2145
01:35:47,751 --> 01:35:49,792
"What? They have bigger dicks?
Bomb them."
2146
01:35:49,876 --> 01:35:53,500
-(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
-(BOMB BLASTS)
2147
01:35:53,584 --> 01:35:55,125
GEORGE:
That's our new job in the world,
2148
01:35:55,209 --> 01:35:56,751
bombing Brown people.
2149
01:35:56,834 --> 01:35:58,959
Isn't that roughly
our job everywhere?
2150
01:35:59,042 --> 01:36:01,334
We kind of free people
and whip industry on them
2151
01:36:01,417 --> 01:36:03,792
so that they can have
all the benefits of industry
2152
01:36:03,876 --> 01:36:05,542
that we have come to love.
2153
01:36:05,626 --> 01:36:07,125
Wasn't there something noble
they could do
2154
01:36:07,209 --> 01:36:09,000
to be helping this planet heal?
2155
01:36:09,083 --> 01:36:12,751
Mother Earth raped again.
Guess who.
2156
01:36:12,834 --> 01:36:14,584
Hey, she was asking for it.
2157
01:36:14,667 --> 01:36:16,876
You know there's another
bunch of homeless coming soon
2158
01:36:16,959 --> 01:36:19,125
when the housing bubble bursts
and the dollar gets devalued,
2159
01:36:19,209 --> 01:36:20,626
and you get a lot of
middle class homeless...
2160
01:36:20,709 --> 01:36:22,959
I said a long time ago,
when fascism comes to America,
2161
01:36:23,042 --> 01:36:24,792
it won't wear jackboots
and brown shirts.
2162
01:36:24,876 --> 01:36:27,125
It'll have on a smiley face
and a T-shirt
2163
01:36:27,209 --> 01:36:29,125
and designer jeans and Nikes.
2164
01:36:29,209 --> 01:36:30,584
CROWD: (CHANTING)
Black lives matter!
2165
01:36:30,667 --> 01:36:31,834
GEORGE:
You know what they ought to do?
2166
01:36:31,918 --> 01:36:33,417
They ought to have
two new requirements
2167
01:36:33,500 --> 01:36:37,000
for being on the police.
Intelligence and decency.
2168
01:36:37,083 --> 01:36:38,250
(POLICE SIREN WAILING)
2169
01:36:38,334 --> 01:36:40,167
GEORGE: You never can tell.It might just work.
2170
01:36:40,250 --> 01:36:42,584
It certainly
hasn't been tried yet.
2171
01:36:42,667 --> 01:36:44,626
-Come on! You're full of shit!
-(SCREAMS)
2172
01:36:44,709 --> 01:36:46,792
CROWD: Black lives matter!Black lives matter!
2173
01:36:46,876 --> 01:36:48,709
GEORGE: That's all you ever hearabout in this country,
2174
01:36:48,792 --> 01:36:51,959
is our differences.
Race, religion, sexuality.
2175
01:36:52,042 --> 01:36:54,709
That's the way the ruling class
operates in any society.
2176
01:36:54,792 --> 01:36:57,042
They try to divide
the rest of the people.
2177
01:36:57,125 --> 01:36:59,375
Anything they can do to
keep us fighting with each other
2178
01:36:59,459 --> 01:37:01,959
so that they can
keep going to the bank.
2179
01:37:02,042 --> 01:37:03,500
(INDISTINCT CHANTING)
2180
01:37:03,584 --> 01:37:05,584
GEORGE: But I'll tell youwhat they don't want.
2181
01:37:05,667 --> 01:37:07,542
They don't want
a population of citizens
2182
01:37:07,626 --> 01:37:10,334
capable of critical thinking.
They're not interested in that.
2183
01:37:10,417 --> 01:37:13,500
That doesn't help them.
That's against their interests.
2184
01:37:15,876 --> 01:37:17,167
They don't give a fuck
about you.
2185
01:37:17,250 --> 01:37:18,834
They don't
give a fuck about you.
2186
01:37:18,918 --> 01:37:21,626
They don't care
about you at all. At all.
2187
01:37:21,709 --> 01:37:24,834
The table is tilted, folks.
The game is rigged.
2188
01:37:24,918 --> 01:37:26,792
(GRUNTS, SHOUTS)
2189
01:37:26,876 --> 01:37:28,709
GEORGE: Land of the free.Home of the brave.
2190
01:37:28,792 --> 01:37:30,751
-(OFFICER SCREAMING)
-GEORGE: All men are equal.
2191
01:37:30,834 --> 01:37:32,959
-OFFICER: (SCREAMING) Help!
-GEORGE: Justice is blind.
2192
01:37:33,042 --> 01:37:36,250
-The good guys win.
-CROWD: USA! USA!
2193
01:37:36,334 --> 01:37:39,209
GEORGE: And everythingis going to be just fine.
2194
01:37:39,292 --> 01:37:42,584
CROWD: USA! USA! USA!
2195
01:37:42,667 --> 01:37:49,125
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
2196
01:37:53,626 --> 01:37:55,459
GEORGE:
It's called the American dream
2197
01:37:55,542 --> 01:37:58,375
because you have to be asleep
to believe it.
2198
01:37:58,459 --> 01:38:00,250
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
2199
01:38:08,042 --> 01:38:12,876
(WAVES CRASHING)
2200
01:38:12,959 --> 01:38:15,209
KELLY:
My last memory of my dad is,
2201
01:38:15,292 --> 01:38:20,250
I went to Hawaii and I drive up
to the Napili Kai,
2202
01:38:20,334 --> 01:38:25,542
which is where I had my parents
sign the UN peace treaty.
2203
01:38:25,626 --> 01:38:29,459
And there's no angst there,
there's no chaos,
2204
01:38:29,542 --> 01:38:32,918
there's no bad memories.
It's just pure, pure love.
2205
01:38:34,125 --> 01:38:37,667
So I call my dad, and my dad
never picks up his phone,
2206
01:38:37,751 --> 01:38:39,751
and he picks up the phone,
2207
01:38:39,834 --> 01:38:42,709
and he says, "Hey, kiddo."
I'm like, "Hey, Dad,
2208
01:38:42,792 --> 01:38:49,167
I was just at the Napili Kai,
and I want to tell you that
2209
01:38:49,250 --> 01:38:52,375
everything that happened to us
40 years ago,
2210
01:38:52,459 --> 01:38:55,626
all the pieces of ourselves
that we left there,
2211
01:38:55,709 --> 01:38:57,667
I've brought them home,
2212
01:38:57,751 --> 01:39:02,000
and it's done, and it's really,
really over, Dad.
2213
01:39:02,083 --> 01:39:04,083
It's done. There's no more.
2214
01:39:05,250 --> 01:39:07,250
There's no more pain
inside of me about this
2215
01:39:07,334 --> 01:39:10,125
"or suffering or any of that."
2216
01:39:10,209 --> 01:39:12,209
I can tell
my dad's very choked up
2217
01:39:12,292 --> 01:39:14,876
on the other end of the phone.
He can barely speak.
2218
01:39:15,918 --> 01:39:18,250
And, um, and he's like,
2219
01:39:18,334 --> 01:39:21,918
"That's... that's great."
You know.
2220
01:39:22,000 --> 01:39:25,417
And it was one of these moments,
it was just incredible.
2221
01:39:25,500 --> 01:39:28,000
I'd felt like on the phone
with my dad...
2222
01:39:30,459 --> 01:39:32,751
like we had met each other
in this place
2223
01:39:32,834 --> 01:39:35,709
that we had never met
each other before.
2224
01:39:35,792 --> 01:39:37,709
And I knew this was
so important to him
2225
01:39:37,792 --> 01:39:40,209
because I knew
the biggest regret he had
2226
01:39:40,292 --> 01:39:42,459
of his entire life
about everything
2227
01:39:42,542 --> 01:39:45,042
was what those years did to me.
2228
01:39:45,125 --> 01:39:48,125
And, we had this
beautiful conversation.
2229
01:39:48,209 --> 01:39:51,042
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
2230
01:39:51,125 --> 01:39:54,542
SALLY: He was going intothe hospital early on a Sunday.
2231
01:39:55,167 --> 01:39:57,083
He wasn't feeling bad.
2232
01:39:57,167 --> 01:40:01,209
He was just going in to get
an adjustment for his heart.
2233
01:40:04,667 --> 01:40:07,083
And then the hospital
called me... (SNIFFLES)
2234
01:40:07,167 --> 01:40:10,834
...and said...
(CLEARS THROAT)
2235
01:40:11,834 --> 01:40:13,167
..."Come in as soon as you can."
2236
01:40:14,918 --> 01:40:20,000
And, uh...
he kept telling me he was sorry.
2237
01:40:22,000 --> 01:40:26,876
Which he didn't have to do.
He didn't have to apologize.
2238
01:40:28,751 --> 01:40:31,375
And, then he stopped breathing.
2239
01:40:31,459 --> 01:40:32,834
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
2240
01:40:34,459 --> 01:40:36,042
♪ (AMBIENT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
2241
01:40:36,125 --> 01:40:40,500
GEORGE: Uh, y'all people,this is the afterlife sergeant.
2242
01:40:40,584 --> 01:40:42,000
A couple of notes for you.
2243
01:40:42,083 --> 01:40:44,709
Just things where people
are curious about.
2244
01:40:44,792 --> 01:40:47,167
Hitler. Hitler is in heaven.
2245
01:40:47,250 --> 01:40:50,542
Listen, don't blame me.
I don't make the rules.
2246
01:40:50,626 --> 01:40:52,417
Technically, he was a Catholic.
2247
01:40:52,500 --> 01:40:55,834
He got absolution
before he died.
2248
01:40:55,918 --> 01:40:57,209
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
2249
01:40:57,292 --> 01:41:01,876
Yes, you're all...
you're all going to die.
2250
01:41:01,959 --> 01:41:04,584
Didn't mean to remind you of it,
but it is on your schedule.
2251
01:41:04,667 --> 01:41:07,250
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
2252
01:41:07,334 --> 01:41:09,709
Comedians don't want to die.
2253
01:41:09,792 --> 01:41:12,375
It's only a metaphor,
but it's so true of all of us.
2254
01:41:12,459 --> 01:41:16,125
We don't want to die out there.
The comics wanna die.
2255
01:41:16,209 --> 01:41:18,626
I don't want to die.
Geez, I was dying out there.
2256
01:41:18,709 --> 01:41:19,751
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
2257
01:41:19,834 --> 01:41:21,959
Of course,
if the comedian doesn't die,
2258
01:41:22,042 --> 01:41:24,375
you know, if he succeeds,
2259
01:41:24,459 --> 01:41:28,459
if he makes you laugh,
then he can say,
2260
01:41:28,542 --> 01:41:32,792
-"I killed them."
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
2261
01:41:33,834 --> 01:41:37,500
-"I killed them."
-(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
2262
01:41:37,584 --> 01:41:39,792
So it's either me or you,
you know?
2263
01:41:41,417 --> 01:41:43,250
See, I don't worry
about the little things.
2264
01:41:43,334 --> 01:41:45,500
I think we're part
of a greater wisdom
2265
01:41:45,584 --> 01:41:47,626
than we will ever understand.
2266
01:41:47,709 --> 01:41:50,042
A higher order.
Call it what you want.
2267
01:41:50,125 --> 01:41:53,167
You know what I call it?
The big electron.
2268
01:41:53,876 --> 01:41:57,250
The big electron. Whoa.
2269
01:41:57,334 --> 01:42:01,417
-Whoa. Whoa.
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
2270
01:42:01,500 --> 01:42:04,000
It doesn't punish.
It doesn't reward.
2271
01:42:04,083 --> 01:42:05,459
It doesn't judge at all.
2272
01:42:05,542 --> 01:42:09,459
It just is, and so are we,
for a little while.
2273
01:42:09,542 --> 01:42:12,167
Thanks for being here with me
for a little while tonight.
2274
01:42:12,250 --> 01:42:14,167
(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
2275
01:42:14,250 --> 01:42:18,042
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
2276
01:42:18,125 --> 01:42:24,083
(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
2277
01:42:24,167 --> 01:42:28,292
GEORGE: Take care of yourself.Take care of yourself,
2278
01:42:28,375 --> 01:42:31,667
and take care of somebody else.
Thank you. Goodnight.
2279
01:42:31,751 --> 01:42:38,542
(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
2280
01:42:43,417 --> 01:42:46,500
♪ ("BRING ON THE LUCIE"
BY JOHN LENNON PLAYING) ♪
2281
01:42:49,834 --> 01:42:53,000
♪ We don't care
What flag you're waving ♪
2282
01:42:55,751 --> 01:42:58,834
♪ We don't even
Want to know your name ♪
2283
01:43:01,500 --> 01:43:03,167
♪ We don't care
Where you're from ♪
2284
01:43:03,250 --> 01:43:04,667
♪ Or where you're going ♪
2285
01:43:07,375 --> 01:43:10,334
♪ All we know it that you came ♪
2286
01:43:13,042 --> 01:43:18,626
-♪ Free the people now ♪
-♪ Do it, do it, do it ♪
2287
01:43:18,709 --> 01:43:22,209
♪ Do it, do it, do it,
Do it, do it now ♪
2288
01:43:22,292 --> 01:43:24,542
♪ Do it, do it, do it ♪
2289
01:43:24,626 --> 01:43:29,876
-♪ Free the people now ♪
-♪ Do it, do it, do it ♪
2290
01:43:29,959 --> 01:43:32,709
♪ Do it, do it, do it,
Do it, do it now ♪
2291
01:43:35,334 --> 01:43:38,959
♪ Well, we were caught
With our hands in the air ♪
2292
01:43:39,042 --> 01:43:41,959
♪ Don't despair,
Paranoia's everywhere ♪
2293
01:43:42,042 --> 01:43:44,709
♪ We can shake it with love
When we're scared ♪
2294
01:43:44,792 --> 01:43:47,292
♪ So let's shout it aloud
Like a prayer ♪
2295
01:43:47,375 --> 01:43:52,709
-♪ Free the people now ♪
-♪ Do it, do it, do it ♪
2296
01:43:52,792 --> 01:43:56,375
♪ Do it, do it, do it,
Do it, do it now ♪
2297
01:43:56,459 --> 01:43:58,751
♪ Do it, do it, do it ♪
2298
01:43:58,834 --> 01:44:04,083
-♪ Free the people now ♪
-♪ Do it, do it, do it ♪
2299
01:44:04,167 --> 01:44:07,834
♪ Do it, do it, do it,
Do it, do it now ♪
2300
01:44:10,125 --> 01:44:13,167
♪ We understand your paranoia ♪
2301
01:44:15,834 --> 01:44:19,584
♪ But we don't wanna
Play your game ♪
2302
01:44:21,584 --> 01:44:25,459
♪ You think you're cool
And know what you're doing ♪
2303
01:44:27,459 --> 01:44:31,334
♪ 666 is your name ♪
2304
01:44:33,250 --> 01:44:38,626
-♪ Free the people now ♪
-♪ Do it, do it, do it ♪
2305
01:44:38,709 --> 01:44:42,417
♪ Do it, do it, do it,
Do it, do it now ♪
2306
01:44:42,500 --> 01:44:44,500
♪ Do it, do it, do it ♪
2307
01:44:44,584 --> 01:44:47,626
-♪ Free the people now ♪
-♪ Do it, do it, do it ♪
2308
01:44:47,709 --> 01:44:49,125
♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪
2308
01:44:50,305 --> 01:45:50,758
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