You guys who are fans of comedians who made their living acting cynical, ascerbic, grumpy and shocking... you criticize someone for making a joke about them?
I didn't just come on here and say something like "I don't like him." or "I never thought he was funny." No one cares what those pudpullers have to say. I'm a fan of his who made a comment about him, in a similar way he might have.
I made a joke, one that would be quite funny and 'biting' in the hands of a talented comedian with stage presence.
Carlin and the comedians you listed earlier lived pushing other people's buttons. Don't get mad when someone else pushes back, whatever their motivation.
Don’t let the idiots get to you man, Carlin was funny, period. I don’t care how high and mighty they are about this man, there is SOMETHING he said SOMEWHERE that made them snicker into their hand. Whether they admit it or not.
I don’t care for Howard Stern, but I have to admit laughing sometimes when I’m ashamed I’m laughing.
That’s why I asked you “IF” it was an attempt at humor.
You explained that it was an attempt at humor - a decidedly and remarkably poor attempt, true - but, according to you, an attempt, nonetheless. I’ll take you word for it.
Maybe you’re right. Maybe in the hands of a talented comedian with stage presence, he/she may have been able to dig up some acid-humor out of the idea behind what you wrote, rather than what you actually did write.
I thought something along what you wrote too. Carlin was so anti-God, how WOULD he react if he was in God’s presence? It’s like the old Steve Martin routine where he dies, wakes up in heaven and says:”In college we thought this was all bull$hit”.
RIP George