The Madness of King George

Thursday July 3, 2008 | 3 comments

“I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.”
   – G. Carlin

Uh oh!!!

Geez, this has been a tough stretch, with two big-time entertainment legends passing in such close proximity of each other. In mid-June, we lost Stan Winston, which I wrote about the other day. And then, at the beginning of last week, George Carlin exited the world stage after a lifetime of making us all laugh.

“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”

Carlin was a Comedy God – no two words about it. Whipcrack smart, he got you thinking as you were doubled-over laughing. I first encountered him sometime in the late 80’s during one of his great HBO specials. For my mon... Continue reading »