Louis C.K - Admiring George Carlin 

I am not the type of person to get upset over celebrity deaths. But I will never forget, I was sitting in the lobby waiting to get brought in for a job interview when I read on my blackberry that George had died. I had to hold back the tears. I am of course not a comedian, but George helped me, more than any other public figure, see the world a different way. Theres probably no single person who taught me more about critical thinking than he did with comical analysis of society. I truly hope his words live on and that younger generations take the time to listen to even a small bit of what he put out there.

Louis is one of my heroes for the same reason.

well said

Similar to what Morm McDonald said..‘It’s one thing to make people laugh, but a whole other thing to make them smile’. Louis just took that to another level here..

He asked Donald Rumsfeld on O&A. However David Icke, the guy who started the lizard people conspiracy theory, has also accused Dick Cheney of being a lizard.

Also, Louie said he was pretty sure the guy who looked like Dick Cheney wasn’t a lizard, because he looked like a nice version of Dick Cheney. Louie was still implying that Dick Cheney is a lizard person.

@@KarldeRavin You're right thanks. I always think of them as the same person lol.

It was Rumsfeld not Cheney.

Limewire was kind of awful though. I would be downloading cartoons and click play just to see a girl putting a football inside her.

Some might say that’s what was great about limewire though

I grew up watching Carlin on Shining Time Station/Thomas the Tank Engine. Wasn't until I was 16 or so and getting into Carlins comedy that I went "Holy shit that's the guy from Thomas!!"

Seriously late 80s early 90s could've been saved for the eulogy

Because we can laugh for many reasons.

I mean your definition of standup is wrong. Being a successful comedy writer or comedic actor doesn’t necessarily mean your a successful standup comedian. It’s not disingenuous

Not at all. They are two completely different jobs. Writing skits is way different than performing live, and most of the people who are successful at one are terrible at the other tbh.

Honestly usually succesful people are way to critikal of their past self, but honestly I checked out Louis' early stand up and to my surprise actually really sucked, which is quite inspiring as that means one can achieve greatness with enough practice.

@@terminalfilms8074 I got I started doing right out of high school started doing stand-ups didn't go to college didn't pursue anything else professionally really I started doing stand up first time I went on stage I did a minute and a half and I bombed it was terrible but I wanted it so badly that I kept trying and I learned how to write jokes and I just had jokes kind of funny thoughts and I about I don't know 15 years later The idea here is that he's presenting a story like he was just this down out of his luck guy who had zero success, then one day 15 years later he mattered that's the vibe of what he's saying. Now, ignoring the vibe, being purely technical, are you correct? Sure. But, if you take in account the vibe my original statement stands: He's being a bit disingenuous here to his actual history, which being funny involves stretching the truth all the time so this isn't totally out of this world wacko he would do this, it's just a bit out of place for someone who just died and he supposedly respects forever.

"Getting big" is subjective only to the artist in question. Your opinion on when some one makes it "big" doesn't really matter. It does suggest that you claim some sort of delusional ownership over the artist and his work, which you might think about keeping in check, considering you've contributed nothing to their career.....

That’s because your sense of humor sucks

Of course he was.