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organicAnt  ·  3830 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So I built a free documentary library. Thoughts?

    Ah, I like to call that the George Carlin mindset. He just rejects everything and ridicules it for the rest of our entertainment.

What a legend, one of my favourite comedians.

    Saturday is 24 hour comic day, so I'm wondering how they will affect my comic. I'm excited to watch them though!

I'd love to see the end result : )





deiki  ·  3829 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do you enjoy him before or after his wife died? The way he is afterwards is pretty dark, but I love how straight-edged his comedy becomes. If anything, I imagine that's probably how Mark Twain was on stage. I would give my unborn child to time travel to one of his talks.

    I'd love to see the end result : )

We can talk about the films when I get my comic back!

organicAnt  ·  3828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not sure in what phase of his life he was when his comedy became more political and like you say darker. When he stopped with fluffy superficial comedy and went deep and to the core of the ugly of society. That's the part of his work that I really admire. His brutal honesty, even if he's insulting you, you still love him for pointing out the absurd and rotten in society.

deiki  ·  3827 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes! God, that still influences me to this day.

btw, I just watched both. Excellent. I have to leave now, so we shall talk about that later. It's nice to know that we share a common interest in UFOs and dark humour.

organicAnt  ·  3827 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Good to know you liked them : )

There are a few other documentaries on the subject under the Universe category of Lucid Tree if you're interested.