June 23, 2008

George Carlin left us on Sunday, June 22nd. I don’t have to tell you his importance to what we used to call the “counter culture”. Look, I’m not going to review the same issues that will be used in just about every eulogy. I saw Carlin in (I believe) 1974 at the Front Row Theater, and he was rude, funny, brilliant, animated and extremely insightful. You may also recall that he was the very first host of “Saturday Night” as it was called when it first went on the air in 1975. He appeared on the “Mike Douglas Show” with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and it takes a lot to get those two to laugh but he succeeded. Carlin is also a footnote in legal history with his “Seven DirtyWords”…several of which have since become common radio and TV fare.