most comedians rely on the medium of comedic distortion for their jokes but george carlin didn’t distort anything. while other comedians project a world composed of their own internal logic, george carlin relentlessly and unabashedly picked apart the many threads of illogic that drive a very real world. luv u buddy.
r.i.p.
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from Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine (1998)
Though an official release date hasn’t been set, the album will likely drop between July and September of this year on Comedy Central Records.
to fill that mitch-shaped hole in your heart 
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few sketches can withstand this amount of buildup and sustain the hilariousness. yay kristen wiig!
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From The Hollywood Reporter, about the “criminal” finding an alibi confirmation via cutting room floor footage from the show Curb Your Enthusiasm, created by Larry David:
Catalan had been jailed as the primary suspect in the May 2003 killing of a 16-year-old girl. His alibi? He was attending a Dodger game with his 6-year-old daughter at the time of the murder. But because it couldn’t immediately be proven, Catalan remained locked up.
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“It just so happened we had a camera rolling with a wide-enough lens to have Catalan in the shot. But we didn’t shoot in very many sections that night. If we’d picked a different section, the man is still in jail.”
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“You know, I think Larry did enjoy this whole thing,” Weide maintains. “The fact that it was so clearly inadvertent is what’s most important to him. This didn’t implicate him as having directly helped someone.”
photo from google search
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“and i have been paying very close attention … but when you put it all together like that”
haha John Stewart. (2:12)
Eek — I hope this film is funny. I thought the same thing about Night at the Museum, which turned out to be pretty funny although for children. Especially the parts where he talks to the civil war guys.
“Who left the fridge open?” haha
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First of all, there is a website to combat liberal bias? Is that because Tracy Morgan is able to find the humor in the fact that this country isn’t as racism-free as it likes to think?
Meh whatever. The kinda of a-hole that needs to contribute to a site like that just promotes the fact that controlling the media is more important than the issues.
They warn their readers that the following quote from Tina Fey on SNL a few weeks earlier contains sacrilege:
And maybe what bothers me the most is that people say that Hillary is a bitch. And let me say something about that: yeah, she is, and so am I. And so is this one (pointing at Amy Poehler). And you know what, bitches get stuff done. That’s why Catholic schools use nuns as teachers and not priests. Those nuns are mean old clams, and they sleep on cots and are allowed to hit you. And at the end of the school year, you hated those bitches, but you knew the capital of Vermont. So, I’m saying it’s not too late Texas and Ohio. Get on board. Bitch is the new black!
Is that not conservative bias toward Jesus-y stuff? Or perhaps prejudice toward the truth leaking out through comedy? Anyway, professional comedians sometimes use an old literary chestnut called “hyperbole,” I’m sure non ALL nuns are psychos. Sorry if you don’t have a sense of humor or a world view based on real life, and don’t tell me “mean old clams” isn’t an awesome phrase.
via | News Busters
btw: News Busters’ tagline is “Exposing and Combating Liberal Media Bias.”
from Associated Press:
NEW YORK – A prominent politician, especially one known for a certain righteousness, is alleged to be a customer of high-priced call girls. For comics, that’s a hanging curveball over the plate.
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Spitzer, accused of being the prostitution ring’s so-called Client 9, was Topic 1 again with late-night comics Tuesday. “Not surprisingly, clients 1 through 8 were Charlie Sheen,” NBC’s “Late Night” host Conan O’Brien cracked.
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[Comics] wondered whether the story would last long enough for [them] to make it a big part of their act and whether Spitzer is known well enough throughout the country.
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For the second day in a row, Spitzer was the topic of Letterman’s top-10 list.
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No. 1: “It’s Arnold Schwarzenegger. Thanks. I’m no longer America’s creepiest governor.”
weird thing is that comedy would be dead without bullshit in the world, so …. thanks for bullshit (?)
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Bob Odenkirk is a comedic genius.
“do hipsters know about this?”
“yeah uh … hipsters … and … everybody else.”
whaaaa?
this is not new or anything but every once in a while i get an itch for some nick swardson.
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comedy central presents nick swardson:
Will Farrel as Jackie Moon. Thx aprilini!
This is after Fred Armisen played Barak Obama and Jon Stewart cracked some political jokes at the Oscars.
checkout this image! it’s made of cats!!!! soylent timanderic is made of cats i tell you! caaaaaaaats!
organize your midi files while you wait for them to arrive:
i love the harrison ford cameo
http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/cc_insider/2008/02/rumors-are-flyi.html
I always love new blood at SNL. People generally don’t like cast member rotation but look at what Kristen Whig has brought to the table. That girl rocks.
But this guy, Donald Glover seems pretty good. Here’s a good one from his site:
Mike Myers and Deepak Chopra were on the Sundance Channel’s program Iconoclasts recently. It was basically a fusion/comparison of comedy and spirituality, which was pretty illuminating.
Here’s stuff Mike Myers said, or that he said other people said. I felt this was worth logging just because these types of utterances are such rare gems:
It is amazing to have this insider look at comedy. It’s very meta. I don’t know if Mike Meyers would be who he was if he had all this “behind the laughter / behind the music / the making of / DVD extras” type of stuff available to him while he was developing his art. Nowadays there’s a SHITload, including another one to checkout, History of the Joke hosted by Lewis Black.
When you are actually amidst the act of creation, I don’t think it’s possible or even beneficial to actually be thinking of any of those things. You have to just let that kind of stuff sink in by giving it time, but just empty your head of any of it when you are live.
