(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.

[CaRepub4life]

Ok folks. I JUST SAW Carlin at the MGM on the day after Thanksgiving (10 days ago) and paid $60/seat to sit in the 2nd to last row of the 700 seat place.

It was the UN-FUNNIEST set I've EVER heard any comedian give. From autoerotic-asphyxiation to a long rant about suicide to saying that he really really loves it when a lot of people die at once.... even though there's a disclaimer at the door when you go in, it was just a terribly unfunny show!!!

At one point, he said that the people that have been beheaded recently in Iraq deserved what they got for being in someone else's country.

He is simply a hateful, sad man who apparently thinks everything he says is funny.....he is very wrong.

[theFIRMbss]

>(George) Carlin To Vegas: I HATE YOU

66. Last Laugh gs: Bobcat Goldthwait (Michael Boland) Jeffrey Ross (Dougie Max) Gilbert Gottfried (Comic) Bryan Callen (Bartender) Alan Blumenfeld (Club Owner) Jeff Perry (George Stark) Tom Gallop (Stark's Attorney) Wallace Langham (David Hodges) Sandra Purpuro () Maggie Wheeler (Female Comic) Leslie Bega (Lea) Larry Thomas (Convenience Store Clerk) Molly Weber () Bryan Callen (Bartender Barry Yoder) Grissom and Catherine investigate the murder of a despised comic who died onstage, apparently after drinking from a tainted bottle of water. The case grows more puzzling when a 15-year-old boy dies in a convenience store after drinking the same brand of water. Brass reopens a woman's accidental-death case after spotting the deceased's husband in a flashy new car with a trophy date on his arm. b: 24-Apr-2003 pc: 320 w: Bob Harris (V) & Anthony E. Zuiker s: Bob Harris (V) & Carol Mendelsohn d: Richard J. Lewis NOTE: series creator Anthony Zuiker has a cameo appearance as a heckler in the episode's final scene.

[RebelBanker]

Ringo was OK, but Alec Baldwin stunk!

[Question_Assumptions]

Next time, try Penn and Teller. They are sometimes a bit too libertarian and anti-religion for me but their show was good (even a git patriotic at one point, in their own way) and they stood outside to greet the audence afterward. I saw them a about three weeks ago. And, yes, I travelled from New Jersey to Las Vegas for a vaction. If you've ever been to Atlantic City and Las Vegas, you should know why.

[Huck]

I agree with him about Vegas. Went there once. Hope I never go back. Filthy worthless scumhole. And where it's not filthy and worthless, it's fake. A fake Eiffel Tower. A fake Statue of Liberty. A fake Venice canal. A fake Italian villa. Fake fake fake.

[Xenalyte]

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.

Worse yet, they pay to see (get this) Celine Dion.

The horror . . . the horror . . .

(I am dead serious. I cannot abide that nasal, hyperemotive Canuck broad.)

[Radix]

"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."

Agreed! I caught some of one of his live specials the other night on HBO. He is definitely not as funny as before. Maybe it is me, but I just cannot see the what is so funny about abortions.

What I really noticed was that there are people who will laugh at anything just because they think it is supposed to be funny. Carlin has lost it.

[Seeking the truth]

Here's a late breaking score....

New York 5

[taxed2death]

You are 100% correct. I feel empathy for GC. It was painfully obvious he NEVER came to grips with his wife's early demise of cancer, I think it was. I remember seeing his HBO special after she had recently died. All I saw on stage was a bitter, confused and obviously very angry man "lashing out".

I believe his sarcastic "funny bone" was replaced with the grief of a broken heart.

I hope he sees some brighter days in his future.

[dfwgator]

His wife passed away a few years ago, ever since he's just become a bitter old man. But back in the day, noone was funnier.

[JusPasenThru]

He did a good job of narating some Thomas the Tank Engine videos. Compared to Ringo Starr, he sucked as Mr Conductor

"He hasn't a conductor! He hasn't a conductor!"

I have seen those stupid videos so much that I can tell you which one is Henry, Gordon, Thomas, Buckwheat, all of them. The producers are going to have to do an extra 50,000 years in Purgatory for that.

[airborne]

Strangely, though, Carlin isn't ready to leave town yet: He's jumping to the Stardust in February after a falling out with the MGM Grand.

So he insults the paying customers of Las Vegas, and then gets a job across town! What a putz!

[RebelBanker]

I have seen those stupid videos so much that I can tell you which one is Henry, Gordon, Thomas, Buckwheat, all of them. The producers are going to have to do an extra 50,000 years in Purgatory for that.

Somehow I doubt that. Thomas is based on The Railway Series by the Reverend W. Awdry. I agree with the sentiment, though! My son's favorite character is James the red engine...

[Begin]

I'm just glad that he's not bitter.

[JusPasenThru]

I don't like James. I like Henry.

[Hatteras]

"I hope it was positive; if not, well, [bleep] me," using slang for oral sex."

What gives? "Blow" wasn't one of the 7 words!

[Hatteras]

"Say, you are a good sport, aren't you?"

LOL!

Remember me? Jane? I met you at a party about 6 to 8 weeks ago?...

[RebelBanker]

Personally, I find all of them rather annoying. However, somebody got my son started on them so we are kind of stuck with them.

As to the topic at hand - George Carlin - I thought he did a decent job as narrator. Ringo Starr has a better accent for the roles but can be harder to understand at times. Alec Baldwin was just terrible, confusing to little ones when they can not tell which character is speaking because all the voices sound exactly the same.

[katykelly]

Sam Kinison was the best, IMHO.

[Moonman62]

Thats not to say that swearing and shock can't be funny. Sam Kinison was one of the best ever.

It's all in the delivery. That scene he had with Rodney in Back to School was one of the best ever.