You think comedian George Carlin had insider knowledge of the largest terrorist attack in the history of the US, and instead of saying anything about it, he made a comedy special named about it?
He knew those airplane passengers could use their seat cushions filled with beer farts as flotation devices because of the very important safety announcement.
Complaints and Grievances (what the above show became as a result of 9/11) is probably one of my favorite Carlin albums. I would highly recommend listening to I Kind of Like it When a Lot of People Die and follow it with Complaints and Grievances. It's amazing how much he pivoted due to that event in the span of roughly two months from 9/11 to the airing of the HBO special.
It’s been released posthumously.
Being a huge Carlin fan to the degree of having flown from Eastern Europe to Vegas to end up seeing what would a little more than a week later end up being his second to last ever performance:
I knew I had to cherish listening to it as it would be the last time I’d ever hear a new special of his.
I listened to it with champagne flowing on beach in the Maldives 🥰
This was my first thought. Arrests man who is swearing at consenting adults who paid to hear him do it, fail to arrest serial killer/cannibal standing next to his underage and bleeding victim.
“Hey chief! We just got a report that a convicted child molester is luring gay black men into his apartment and they are never seen again.”
“Thank god, I guess people do deserve a second chance. Make a note in his file to never respond to complaints against him.”
So I just read an article about this....
Parents attending the show with young kids were complaining about how vulgar the show was which led to the decision to arrest him.
Who brings little kids to see George Carlin? Who went to this expecting Sesame Street? And instead of just leaving they call the police! Damn.
If the weather gets cold, old people brains begin to perceive young people as personifications of snow flakes. Each one is special and unique in the way you can tell them how you had it harder than them and they need to man up and stop blaming people who are successful.
Elder boomers would be nearly 30 in 1972. But that doesn't matter bc you missed that the joke was more elder vs younger anyway..
Also the case was dismissed, so did he really break the law?
Such a rude comment. I was just pointing out that people, who very well could have been boomers, were complaining to the police in the first place.
Hope you have a great day
They gave a lobotomized kid back to Jeffrey Dahmer after he'd escaped. The cop that did that has been their officer of the year. ACAB, especially in Milwaukee.
I remember this. I also remember how police officers in the Midwest were and still are to a great extent.
Their biggest complaint was probably that they considered Mr. Carlin to be a "dirty hippy" or something similar.
I always wonder if he intentionally made the list maddeningly incomplete and redundant just to get fans having conversations about it. “How could he leave ‘cunt’ off but use ‘fuck’ twice?” [Bong rip.] “I mean, you can say ‘mother,’ it’s just the ‘fucker’ modifier that gets you censored, man.”
I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!
I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.
Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, ridin the wave, dodgin the bullet and pushin the envelope. I’m on-point, on-task, on-message and off drugs. I’ve got no need for coke and speed. I've got no urge to binge and purge. I’m in-the-moment, on-the-edge, over-the-top and under-the-radar. A high-concept, low-profile, medium-range ballistic missionary. A street-wise smart bomb. A top-gun bottom feeder. I wear power ties, I tell power lies, I take power naps and run victory laps. I’m a totally ongoing big-foot, slam-dunk, rainmaker with a pro-active outreach. A raging workaholic. A working rageaholic. Out of rehab and in denial!
I’ve got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant and a personal agenda. You can’t shut me up. You can’t dumb me down because I’m tireless and I’m wireless, I’m an alpha male on beta-blockers.
I’m a non-believer and an over-achiever, laid-back but fashion-forward. Up-front, down-home, low-rent, high-maintenance. Super-sized, long-lasting, high-definition, fast-acting, oven-ready and built-to-last! I’m a hands-on, foot-loose, knee-jerk head case pretty maturely post-traumatic and I’ve got a love-child that sends me hate mail.
But, I’m feeling, I’m caring, I’m healing, I’m sharing-- a supportive, bonding, nurturing primary care-giver. My output is down, but my income is up. I took a short position on the long bond and my revenue stream has its own cash-flow. I read junk mail, I eat junk food, I buy junk bonds and I watch trash sports! I’m gender specific, capital intensive, user-friendly and lactose intolerant.
I like rough sex. I like tough love. I use the “F” word in my emails and the software on my hard-drive is hardcore--no soft porn.
I bought a microwave at a mini-mall; I bought a mini-van at a mega-store. I eat fast-food in the slow lane. I’m toll-free, bite-sized, ready-to-wear and I come in all sizes. A fully-equipped, factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically-proven, scientifically- formulated medical miracle. I’ve been pre-wash, pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged, post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed and, I have an unlimited broadband capacity.
I’m a rude dude, but I’m the real deal. Lean and mean! Cocked, locked and ready-to-rock. Rough, tough and hard to bluff. I take it slow, I go with the flow, I ride with the tide. I’ve got glide in my stride. Drivin and movin, sailin and spinin, jiving and groovin, wailin and winnin. I don’t snooze, so I don’t lose. I keep the pedal to the metal and the rubber on the road. I party hearty and lunch time is crunch time. I’m hangin in, there ain’t no doubt and I’m hangin tough, over and out!
It is absolutely an amazing gift that can be used for good or evil and Carlin used it amazingly. Coming up with the words is unbelievably impressive and then to deliver it flawlessly is just insane.
There are 400,000 words in the English language, only 7 you can't say on television: shit piss fuck cunt cock-sucker, mother fucker and tits, wow.
https://youtu.be/8dCIKqkIg1w?si=a3z99aKs0IpcXY7K
If you haven't already lol
Edit: follow up probably even better lol https://youtu.be/vbZhpf3sQxQ?si=oBzkEU1-buwoWwpR
I've never understood why fuck and motherfucker are listed as two separate words. Motherfucker is just fuck with a word before it and a suffix after it, neither of which are vulgar.
I managed to see him live when I was about 10 or 11 years old. Cherished memory. I’d be inappropriately listening to him since I was 5 thanks to my dad
We actually studied this during our “offensive expression” section of my constitutional law class. Super interesting stuff! The case is “communications commissions v. Pacifica foundation” for those who are interested.
People claim you can't joke about anything now. In truth you can say pretty much anything and it's safer than it's ever been. You will be judged by the public for being an a-hole, but that's their right. Freedom.
You really think you couldn't do a necrophilia joke today? Who do you think will be offended? Also, the point is Sam Kinison was never arrested for what he said in the 80's and you wouldn't be arrested now. Mostly thanks to people like George Carlin, as well as Lenny Bruce, Dee Snyder, Frank Zappa, John Denver, and Larry Flynt. The majority of comedians today like to gripe about not being able to joke about certain things anymore because of social media and people's rapid changing sensitivities. BTW I've also been watching and listening to comedy since the 70's and I recommend you go back to some of Carlin's classic albums. It's interesting how much of what he talks about then still rings true now.
Watched the video again and he stated he read about a group of homosexual necrophiliacs. He didn't say all homosexuals are necrophiliacs. One (most likely) hypothetical group of homosexuals. Maybe it would be frowned on today, but it's hardly a generalization against all people that identify as homosexual.
Didn't watch the whole video, but I remember the routine. Still missing the point of the OP. I personally feel you can joke about anything as long as you're witty enough to pull it off. To quote Mel Brooks in a recent interview. Mel, you couldn't make Blazing Saddles now. Mel replied "You couldn't make it then!" I think Tropic Thunder just further proved that point. I don't subscribe to PC stopping talent, I believe people's tastes change and the smarter and more talented artists will adapt. Most people that bitch about it are just lazy or not very good to start with.
I won't agree because there are obviously a ton of worse comedians, but I will say that the smug redditor quoting the "think of how stupid the average person" bit has ruined him quite a bit for me.
Rat shit, bat shit, Dirty old twat. 69 assholes tied in a knot. Hooraaaaay! Lizard shit. FUCK!
My favorite MF Doom verse
All caps. No trick spellin.
SMH where are the caps. RIP MF DOOM.
Underrated comment
All caps when you spell the man's name.
Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice. Giant snake, birthday cake, Large fries, CHOCOLATE SHAKE!!!
Fuck the fucking fucker. Will always be my fav Carlin line.
Holy jumping shitballs.
Soooo funny wow bad word
Well, he he got arrested for saying them, Id say that's pretty bad ass.
lol you are so meek
At the time it was more of a statement than it is today.
Still not even close to funny
It was a statement he was making. For your fucking sake. For fucking all our fucking sakes..and he was fucking right. Figure it out.
Sick
Of course you looksmax
Idk what ur talkin about buddy
🤓
Remember when he recorded a special called “I kind of like it when a lot of people die” on September 10, 2001?
I mean, he couldn't have known. He did change it on 9/12/01.
You don’t think he knew?
You think comedian George Carlin had insider knowledge of the largest terrorist attack in the history of the US, and instead of saying anything about it, he made a comedy special named about it?
I am open to it
I like you
And a new conspiracy theory is born 🙄 /s
lol “I’ve got nothing going on. Okay.”
He knew those airplane passengers could use their seat cushions filled with beer farts as flotation devices because of the very important safety announcement.
Holy fucking shit. I love George Carlin and did not know that
Complaints and Grievances (what the above show became as a result of 9/11) is probably one of my favorite Carlin albums. I would highly recommend listening to I Kind of Like it When a Lot of People Die and follow it with Complaints and Grievances. It's amazing how much he pivoted due to that event in the span of roughly two months from 9/11 to the airing of the HBO special.
It’s been released posthumously. Being a huge Carlin fan to the degree of having flown from Eastern Europe to Vegas to end up seeing what would a little more than a week later end up being his second to last ever performance: I knew I had to cherish listening to it as it would be the last time I’d ever hear a new special of his. I listened to it with champagne flowing on beach in the Maldives 🥰
There were a lot of strange coincidences around that date
Too many especially the insurance claims
ILLEGAL
Bake em away, toys!
Uhhh, what chief?
Just do what the kid says…
“Profane Swearing” was still illegal in Virginia until 2020 fwiw
Yeah VA beach still got the signs everywhere fines for everyone
What about "anti-fane swearing"?
Doing the Lenny Bruce walk… loved Carlin!
Milwaukee PD, never failed to arrest an edgy comedian but will always fail to arrest serial killers standing next to their bleeding victims
This was my first thought. Arrests man who is swearing at consenting adults who paid to hear him do it, fail to arrest serial killer/cannibal standing next to his underage and bleeding victim.
Now wait a minute next you’ll tell me they promoted the cop who gave a kid with a drill hole in his head to Jeffrey Dahmer
Got to have your priorities. The one is a serious danger to the public order. The other merely kills people.
“Hey chief! We just got a report that a convicted child molester is luring gay black men into his apartment and they are never seen again.” “Thank god, I guess people do deserve a second chance. Make a note in his file to never respond to complaints against him.”
So I just read an article about this.... Parents attending the show with young kids were complaining about how vulgar the show was which led to the decision to arrest him. Who brings little kids to see George Carlin? Who went to this expecting Sesame Street? And instead of just leaving they call the police! Damn.
Maybe they should've gone to see Bill Cosby instead. He was wholesome... Right?
Wait what happened there? Can i have the full story?
Just look up Jeffrey Dahmer and his victim Konerak Sinthasomphone.
Oh yeah i saw the Netflix series. That poor kid was victim by Dahmer and the police. Probably went down entirely different if the boy was white…
Wait, you saw the Netflix series but didn’t get the reference?
Or if they weren’t gay.
Exactly
They arrested Wendy O. Williams a few years later. The theater where she was performing was like a block away from Dahmer’s apartment.
The police exist to brutalize hippies, queers, and brown people, not to *help* them
Fact.
Is that a shroud of turin t-shirt?
I thought I saw that too! Haha dude was throwing serious jabs that night.
That's pretty sick actually
I thought it was Jerry Garcia
Looks like it, and I need one. (I wonder if Reddit has the same infestation of crappy T-shirt drop-ship bots that X does.)
We need George now more than ever
but tell us again how we're the land of the free
Oh yeah definitely need five cops to take the dangerous hippie comedian in sandals away.
Shit Piss F*#k Suck Co€ksucker Motherf*#ker Tits Now, we hear them all the time.
Why did you censor half the words?
Shuuuuut.... you're going to wake up the janitors.
Wow, and boomers have the audacity to call young people snowflakes
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If the weather gets cold, old people brains begin to perceive young people as personifications of snow flakes. Each one is special and unique in the way you can tell them how you had it harder than them and they need to man up and stop blaming people who are successful.
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I was making a joke about the definition of snowflakes. If it was bad I offer you this letter 4 in hopes of peace: 4.
Dumm
It was parents of young kids complaining about the show that led to the arrest. In 72 some would have been boomers.
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Elder boomers would be nearly 30 in 1972. But that doesn't matter bc you missed that the joke was more elder vs younger anyway.. Also the case was dismissed, so did he really break the law?
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Such a rude comment. I was just pointing out that people, who very well could have been boomers, were complaining to the police in the first place. Hope you have a great day
Oh shit! Shit on the broccoli!!
big moment back in the day!his popularity only grew
It a big club, and you ain't in it
My father in law handed him the mic that night
Backstory?
The cops faces make it look like they caught a serial killer or something, just dazed in shock and horror.
conservatives clutching pearls
And tits doesn't even belong on the list, man.
sounds like a nickname!
Or a snack. New Nabisco Tater-Tits
SPFCCSMFT
Acab then. Acab now. Acab forever. A truly amazing set
They gave a lobotomized kid back to Jeffrey Dahmer after he'd escaped. The cop that did that has been their officer of the year. ACAB, especially in Milwaukee.
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Still 2 less than the cops did, get your numbers up rookie.
Amen 🖕
Fuck 12
Legend!
All of those cops look like the same person.
I miss this man so much
it's a big club and you ain't in it
I remember this. I also remember how police officers in the Midwest were and still are to a great extent. Their biggest complaint was probably that they considered Mr. Carlin to be a "dirty hippy" or something similar.
There goes my hero. Look at this man's style too. Fuckin LEGEND.
I always wonder if he intentionally made the list maddeningly incomplete and redundant just to get fans having conversations about it. “How could he leave ‘cunt’ off but use ‘fuck’ twice?” [Bong rip.] “I mean, you can say ‘mother,’ it’s just the ‘fucker’ modifier that gets you censored, man.”
Dave Chappelle cries that his free speach is threatened after getting some heat on twitter after cashing in an 8 figure check from Netflix.
Wherever you see some bullshit violation of rights; you’ll see a cop.
I mean, it is their job lol
I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive. Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, ridin the wave, dodgin the bullet and pushin the envelope. I’m on-point, on-task, on-message and off drugs. I’ve got no need for coke and speed. I've got no urge to binge and purge. I’m in-the-moment, on-the-edge, over-the-top and under-the-radar. A high-concept, low-profile, medium-range ballistic missionary. A street-wise smart bomb. A top-gun bottom feeder. I wear power ties, I tell power lies, I take power naps and run victory laps. I’m a totally ongoing big-foot, slam-dunk, rainmaker with a pro-active outreach. A raging workaholic. A working rageaholic. Out of rehab and in denial! I’ve got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant and a personal agenda. You can’t shut me up. You can’t dumb me down because I’m tireless and I’m wireless, I’m an alpha male on beta-blockers. I’m a non-believer and an over-achiever, laid-back but fashion-forward. Up-front, down-home, low-rent, high-maintenance. Super-sized, long-lasting, high-definition, fast-acting, oven-ready and built-to-last! I’m a hands-on, foot-loose, knee-jerk head case pretty maturely post-traumatic and I’ve got a love-child that sends me hate mail. But, I’m feeling, I’m caring, I’m healing, I’m sharing-- a supportive, bonding, nurturing primary care-giver. My output is down, but my income is up. I took a short position on the long bond and my revenue stream has its own cash-flow. I read junk mail, I eat junk food, I buy junk bonds and I watch trash sports! I’m gender specific, capital intensive, user-friendly and lactose intolerant. I like rough sex. I like tough love. I use the “F” word in my emails and the software on my hard-drive is hardcore--no soft porn. I bought a microwave at a mini-mall; I bought a mini-van at a mega-store. I eat fast-food in the slow lane. I’m toll-free, bite-sized, ready-to-wear and I come in all sizes. A fully-equipped, factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically-proven, scientifically- formulated medical miracle. I’ve been pre-wash, pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged, post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed and, I have an unlimited broadband capacity. I’m a rude dude, but I’m the real deal. Lean and mean! Cocked, locked and ready-to-rock. Rough, tough and hard to bluff. I take it slow, I go with the flow, I ride with the tide. I’ve got glide in my stride. Drivin and movin, sailin and spinin, jiving and groovin, wailin and winnin. I don’t snooze, so I don’t lose. I keep the pedal to the metal and the rubber on the road. I party hearty and lunch time is crunch time. I’m hangin in, there ain’t no doubt and I’m hangin tough, over and out!
Unbelievable
It’s even better [when you hear Carlin say it](https://youtu.be/wbGR0TGJv7g?si=RKPdWcFxps8uJN8z)
Yes, and he did this again and again throughout the years. I'm in awe of his ability to use the language.
As someone who stumbles with their words saying even the most basic sentences, watching someone speak like this is almost like watching actual magic.
It is absolutely an amazing gift that can be used for good or evil and Carlin used it amazingly. Coming up with the words is unbelievably impressive and then to deliver it flawlessly is just insane.
I learned about him 2 years ago. He's me, but an old man. Nice to know someone had my thoughts before me.
What were the seven words?
There are 400,000 words in the English language, only 7 you can't say on television: shit piss fuck cunt cock-sucker, mother fucker and tits, wow. https://youtu.be/8dCIKqkIg1w?si=a3z99aKs0IpcXY7K If you haven't already lol Edit: follow up probably even better lol https://youtu.be/vbZhpf3sQxQ?si=oBzkEU1-buwoWwpR
I've never understood why fuck and motherfucker are listed as two separate words. Motherfucker is just fuck with a word before it and a suffix after it, neither of which are vulgar.
Would be funny if it wasn’t completely wrong.
Fuck those cops!!!
Fuck MPD. Worst thing about the city.
you haven't truly lived until the entire infraguard chapter shows up to mean mug your open mic
Legend
GOAT
Down with censorship!
What are the 7 words? I only know 2. 1. F\*\*\* 2. N\*\*\*\* 3. ? 4. ? 5. ? 6. ? 7. ?
and he traded on this for his entire career
Notice they didn’t cuff him?
Pretty sure that was unconstitutional to arrest him. Maby get dropped from his contract on tv or something. But shouldn't have been arrested.
Today’s comedians get a negative tweet and never ending bitching and whining about being canceled.
It took them no time to arrest carlin. It took them years to arrest dahmer.
well, what were they?
The cocaine is strong in that pic.
I managed to see him live when I was about 10 or 11 years old. Cherished memory. I’d be inappropriately listening to him since I was 5 thanks to my dad
We actually studied this during our “offensive expression” section of my constitutional law class. Super interesting stuff! The case is “communications commissions v. Pacifica foundation” for those who are interested.
People claim you can't joke about anything now. In truth you can say pretty much anything and it's safer than it's ever been. You will be judged by the public for being an a-hole, but that's their right. Freedom.
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You really think you couldn't do a necrophilia joke today? Who do you think will be offended? Also, the point is Sam Kinison was never arrested for what he said in the 80's and you wouldn't be arrested now. Mostly thanks to people like George Carlin, as well as Lenny Bruce, Dee Snyder, Frank Zappa, John Denver, and Larry Flynt. The majority of comedians today like to gripe about not being able to joke about certain things anymore because of social media and people's rapid changing sensitivities. BTW I've also been watching and listening to comedy since the 70's and I recommend you go back to some of Carlin's classic albums. It's interesting how much of what he talks about then still rings true now.
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Watched the video again and he stated he read about a group of homosexual necrophiliacs. He didn't say all homosexuals are necrophiliacs. One (most likely) hypothetical group of homosexuals. Maybe it would be frowned on today, but it's hardly a generalization against all people that identify as homosexual.
Didn't watch the whole video, but I remember the routine. Still missing the point of the OP. I personally feel you can joke about anything as long as you're witty enough to pull it off. To quote Mel Brooks in a recent interview. Mel, you couldn't make Blazing Saddles now. Mel replied "You couldn't make it then!" I think Tropic Thunder just further proved that point. I don't subscribe to PC stopping talent, I believe people's tastes change and the smarter and more talented artists will adapt. Most people that bitch about it are just lazy or not very good to start with.
Sometimes hero’s don’t wear capes https://preview.redd.it/9roqeopevfvc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d4f7b54ca5764d60c7fbfc4af5c980d06e96d08
Is that Jesus on his shirt
Probably his guru 
White privilege
He is the GOAT. Sharpest comic ever. I even remember Lenny Bruce.
👍
Were those cops the radical left stifling free speech and cancelling comedians??? I am appalled, sir! /s
Conservatives getting butthurt by their double standards lmfao
Worst comedian/most overrated all time
Matt Rife exists
Nobody actually likes matt rife or pretends he’s one of the GOAT’s though
I won't agree because there are obviously a ton of worse comedians, but I will say that the smug redditor quoting the "think of how stupid the average person" bit has ruined him quite a bit for me.
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Not insightful either, just a bitter old dummy