As some of you may already know, George Carlin was my hero. I consider him one of the funniest men who ever lived and I even had the honor of seeing him perform live during his Complaints and Grievances tour in Raleigh, NC. When he died, it was only the second time that the death of someone outside of my immediate family/friends affected me.*
Anyway, Carlin said a lot of things that stuck with me. I can still deliver a good chunk of his more famous monologues at the drop of a hat, and I tend to quote his stuff a lot in my everyday speech. He was and still is a major influence on my writing and creative style.
I consider him the quintessential master of spoken word, and the base i use to measure all other comedians against.
No real point to this one. I just wanted to say some good stuff about a man who, though he never knew it, had a great deal of influence on my life.
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*The other was Douglas Adams. I'll get into him later, but if you've never read The Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy books then you need to correct that. His lesser known 'Dirk Gently' series is also very good. There's a reason Terry Pratchett (Author of the Discworld novels, another of the greats in my book) has been called the 'Douglas Adams of Fantasy'.
Anyway, I just wanted to share some of that with you. Goodnight, lovelies!
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