For me, George Carlin defined “funny.”

At the tender age of 15, I memorized every word of his 1982 post-heart-attack-recovery concert at Carnegie Hall (which you can watch here in its entirety — thank you Google). It wasn’t just his ability to see the irony and absurdity in everyday language and situations — or the ensemble of characters and voices he housed (each with their own peculiar brand of lunacy). Carlin perfected the Outraged Curmudgeon — a character which, I can now admit, has probably exerted an inappropriate degree of influence on the formation of my own personality!

So, go watch that video… It’s dirty and pretty outrageous at times, but there is definitely a kind of genius at work.

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