iTunes remembers George Carlin

Of all the things said about George Carlin over the past few days, I like what Jon Stewart said on the Daily Show most: he's getting awfully tired of people who we need leaving us. But as Stewart also said, the good thing about Carlin is that he left us "hours and hours of video." iTunes has posted a page of George Carlin's famous standup to honor a comedian that I and many, many other comedy fans looked up to for laughter and inspiration.

If you need a place to start, the "seven dirty words" monologue is probably the most famous, but Carlin often said that his favorite performance was the "Jammin' in New York" show -- he said it was the first time he'd done longer pieces, and talked about stuff that he really put his heart into (it's actually the show that was used for the Moment of Zen on the Daily Show). Definitely a great listen.

Of course, it's probably not quite right that iTunes' system automatically listed "Concert Tickets" as an option on the page. But in the world that Carlin worked his whole life to show us, big companies doing stupid things is nothing new.

Thanks, Steve!

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Andrew

Amazon's MP3 store has the aforementioned album for 1/2 the price:

http://www.amazon.com/Jammin-In-New-York-Explicit/dp/B000S5C6HW/ref=sr_f3_3?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1214477846&sr=103-3

(referrer fees not included)

June 26 2008 at 7:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rest In Peace, Rufus.

June 26 2008 at 2:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Charles R Hamilton

I don't particularly know why "We need" George Carlin? There are plenty of self important celebrities around to tell us how big of a POS we are if we aren't socialists like they are. JK called it right, George was funny at one time. I still liked some of his later stuff as long as he wasn't preaching the leftist line to me.

June 26 2008 at 12:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Noah Ramon

"I'm getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. I'm tired of fucking Earth Day, I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths."

Yeah! What a goddamned leftist socialist!

...Wait, *what*?

June 26 2008 at 12:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Quoth Jim:
There were three Carlins â€“ the early, traditional stand-up who had a weird-guy edge hanging around the margins of his delivery; the â€œcounter-cultureâ€ guy whose album cover taught us all how to pretend to stick our finger up our noses, and the preachy, self-important Teller of Truths who eventually traded comedy for Social Commentary, and always seemed about one blow on the head away from reading Warren Commission transcripts on stage.

June 25 2008 at 5:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

AGS

at least he lived a good life... 71 years of hating everything...

June 25 2008 at 4:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

FoundInTheFlood

Didn't realize he died...damnit ! Despite me being religious, i loved his sarcastic but always very intelligent humor, which was, all of the time, brilliant critique about all our human weaknesses.
I guess the people that didn't like him just didn't like themselves.

June 25 2008 at 4:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Brandon Martinez

I too am quite religious, and I found Carlin hilarious. Just because he makes a joke about religion, doesn't set me off in arms. I could see a lot of where he was coming from - doesn't mean I agree, though.

RIP George...

June 26 2008 at 9:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

feelmyring

Did anyone notice they've still got a link to "concert tickets" on the page?

June 25 2008 at 4:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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feelmyring

And that's what I get for not reading the whole thing. Looking like an idiot on the Internet.

June 25 2008 at 4:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Greg

I think it is up there due to the fact that people still owned tickets to his shows coming up soon. If you click the link, it takes you to the Ticketmaster page, where it clearly states the upcoming shows were canceled. I don't think it is necessarily bad taste, nor something to be up in arms about. I'm sure in the next few days (or after the last planned 'concert' passes) that link will be removed.

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