I remember when i first saw him on TV. I must have been 11 or so, laying on the bed with Dan Batey, when i was staying with them in Nacogdoches one summer. I was probably too young to watch it. It was probably a little loose in the tongue for one so young, but i nearly split my sides, and these days i must sound like such an old maid saying anything like "too young." i don't believe it anyhow. I thank Dan for sharing Carlin with me to this day.
Now, when i watch the stand up he has left us, i don't laugh nearly as much. It's not because its not funny, it's because sometimes it's almost more of a lecture than a comedy routine. Watching the way this man's mind worked.
He should have been a court jester. He would have run the court and the country through comedy.
okay. i lie. he cracks me. i can't help but laugh at the human idiocy he turns the mirror on.
what a public service.
originally posted 6/23/08
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