(George) Carlin To Vegas: I HATE YOU

New York Post ^ | 12/07/04 | Richard Johnson

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

December 7, 2004 -- GEORGE Carlin ended his relationship with the MGM Grand in Las Vegas with a devastating diss the other night.

The caustic comic finished his four-year run with a dark set that included riffs on suicides and beheadings, and made it clear that he couldn't wait to get out of "this [bleeping] hotel" and Sin City.

[WesternPacific]

We, locals, who live in Vegas agree with Carlin in that we question the tourist intellect also. They do pay money to see George Carlin.

[Spok]

Translation: they wouldn't renew his contract.

[finnman69]

I love Carlin but he is getting crankier to the point where he's not funny.

[Political Junkie Too]

Carlin hasn't been funny since his heart attack (1981?).

Or when his wife died.

Baseball/Football was probably his last good routine.

-PJ

[jpl]

I used to think that Carlin was the funniest guy I had ever seen, but when I see him on TV nowadays he strikes me as far more bitter and cynical than funny.

[KC_Conspirator]

I used to think Carlin was hilarious. Some of his comedy is quite funny. However, over the years I have come to the conclusion that much of his stuff is really not that funny; its just "edgyness" of shock and swear words. Thats not to say that swearing and shock can't be funny. Sam Kinison was one of the best ever.

[Borges]

He wasn't always like that though! He became that way in the 90s. He used to be this laid back post-hippie type observer of life's minuate.

[SlowBoat407]

Carlin has admitted in interviews as recently as this year that he is disgusted with most of what America stands for. He seems to be anti-everything and pro-nothing. I thought he was clever at times, but my revulsion for his open antagonism to this country has tainted the sound of his voice for me. He is a misanthropic wretch who has spit on the very culture that has made it possible for him to prosper.

[Jokelahoma]

I don't think Carlin is a liberal as much as he is an anarchist. He just hates authority in all its forms. Therefore, he's not funny any more. Humor needs a target, and when EVERYTHING is a target, well, it just loses some of its punch, no?

[skeeter]

The Las Vegas Review-Journal's Norm Clarke reports that Carlin told the crowd of 700 that he was looking forward to going back east "where the real people are."

Moron. Everyone in Las Vegas is from somewhere else.

[Welsh Rabbit]

Like "real people from back east" don't ever visit Vegas... Oh wait, they don't have to with Atlantic City being there, which is totally non-corporate... /s

[jeremiah]

George Carlin is a bitterly disillusioned and deeply unhappy man. It shows in his comedy act, and is extremely unattractive. Some people find him funny, I find him to be demented.

[TChris]

LOL! Loved it!

[bikepacker67]

Traveling hundreds and thousands of miles to essentially give your money to a large corporation is kind of [bleeping] moronic. That's what I'm always getting here is these kind of [bleeping] people with very limited intellects."

LOL... Drop another hit, Georgie.

[Exeter]

It's really sad. I saw him in concert in Houston back in 1979, and he was hysterical. Now he's just a bitter, cynical old crank who makes Scrooge look like Pauly Shore...

[diamond6]

I loved him in "Jersey Girl" but he kept using God's name as a curse word.........I HATE that!

[vetvetdoug]

Ironically, Carlin started in radio in Wichita Falls, Texas, after he was discharged at Sheppard AFB from the USAF. Carlin on local radio station there was hilarious. Somewhere along the way, his cynicism has gone over the edge into abysmal crass mediocrity.

[Borges]

Comedy seems to be a young man's game. It seems most comedians as they get older become deeply cynical and upset. Even Mark Twain became a complete misanthrope at the end of hsi life. though he aged a lot more gracefully then Carlin seems to be.