George Carlin • Standup Routine (Indian Staff Sargent) • 1965 [Reelin' In The Years Archive] 

This is a Bizzare sight never seen a young Carlin before 😮

Carlin is really sort of a good barometer as to American television and its tolerances at any given point. He's not that far removed from his time in the Air Force here. He was always pushing boundaries, even back in the 60's on the Sullivan show and such, and his routines were right on the cutting edge of what was acceptable. Obviously then by the 70's he's in court versus the FCC for the seven words, and by the early 80's, he'd become the Carlin we all know by way of the HBO specials. Compare this, which is a pretty good sketch for the era that holds up even today, against his last release, "It's Bad For Ya" just before he died, and it's a whole different world. The man was a genius.

Seeing George Carlin so young and in black and white is incredible.

Carlin was unsatisfied with the limits on his material. By the end of the Sixties, he used the social upheaval to springboard his career to a new phase, loads of legendary comedy albums and stand up specials.

Never saw George, clean cut and in a suite.

I’ve gotten so used to seeing George Carlin when he’s old…. I refuse to believe this is him when he was young. Also ngl, for 1965…. That’s some damn high quality there

Damn, I was 3 when this aired. I do remember seeing him on Ed Sullivan doing the hippie dippy weather man. Hilarious 🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽

This was George "you-are-stupid-because-you-disagree-with-me" Carlin before he pretended to be a philosopher.

This is cool. Thanks for sharing.

I keep forgetting that George Carlin is part of the silent generation

Pure gold

Its funny how his regular talking didnt sound like him very much until he started putting on the voice and then you could really hear it

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Therapist: Young George Carlin isn't real, he can't hurt you. Young George Carlin:

Was this the first show he ever did?

Party on dudes!!!!

Kinda sad people think this is pushing the envelope. Especially while Lenny Bruce was doing it all too, and in a much more profound way. Carlin was good at riding the line of controversy, Lenny crossed that line to demonstrate the line shouldn't be. I'm not comparing the two, I'm just kinda shocked how many people don't know of Lenny Bruce, but praise Carlin, when Lenny was paving the way for the future of Stand Up we all love today. Carlin loved to play the "sides" of the line against each other. Lenny was making people confront the reality of censorship, which Carlin eventually did long after Lenny had died. If you love Carlin, you owe it to yourself to seek out and appreciate Lenny Bruce, because he's responsible for Carlin and all your comedians being able to have a platform at all.

Hilarious

I wonder if this is his first Merv appereance? He was very apprehensive about going on Merv and avoided it for a long time.

Poor George Carlin went straight to hell🔥👹💀

Thank god this clip is available from other channels on RU-vid. Those texts across the screen are a pain in the a$$. Who the heII came up with that? 🤡🤡🤡

Comic genious. The only person better in my opinion in Dave Chapelle.

George is quite attractive when he was a young lady

He was a hypocrit and a liar. The fact that so many people praised him does speak volumes concerning our current societal decline.

Amazing what drugs did to people