The brilliant American comedian George Carlin has died at age 71.
We are all long-time and enthusiastic fans of George's, here at Casa Litbrit. And I'm afraid I can't think of anything witty or clever to say right now, so I'll just thank George for the all the laughter and joy he has given us over the years. How I wish we could have a few more decades--or years or even months!--of his pitch-perfect observations about the deeply flawed but endlessly comic creature known as Man.
Rest in peace, genius funny man, rest in peace.
This sucks. I just saw in on Sadly, No! I thought for sure he was going to keep going for decades, if I thought about it at all. He had more energy at 71 than most people have at 25.
To echo the words of Kurt Vonnegut, George Carlin is up in heaven now.
Posted by: Corvus9 | June 23, 2008 at 11:41 AM
I'm gonna have to play "Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, and Limbo" in his memory tonight.
Posted by: low-tech cyclist | June 23, 2008 at 01:20 PM
My post about George on my blog is a list of my favorite quotations by him, including "The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live." http://thesethingstoo.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Stan Denski | June 25, 2008 at 12:48 AM