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Comedian George Carlin sat down with Keith Olbermann on Tuesday’s Countdown and confesses that he’s seen every show and calls it the best news show ever. Never at a loss for words, Carlin gives his take on politics, Governor Bush, illegal wiretapping, Sen. Arlen Specter’s attempt at stand up comedy, Stephen Colbert’s presidential bid and the outrage from the right over the earth shattering Dumbledore controversy;
Carlin: “Don’t these professional Christians have something to do during the day? I mean, isn’t there - didn’t Jesus leave instructions on how to plan your day with something constructive?”
Filed Under: Countdown/Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Racism/Bigotry, Religion, The Colbert Report/Stephen Colbert
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HA! Fiiirst! Mofo’s!
Carlin kicks ass!!!!
damn! second!
Keep on keeping on, Mr. Carlin. You are one of my heroes.
Olbermann/Carlin ‘08!
carlin pointing out that we been anesthetized by tecnology and comsumption, on tv selling his lastest dvd box set. but he is right about keith.
That was great! They should have a special hour long interview next time. Hint, hint…
Carlin is GOD.
These closet gay conservatives making a big fuss over a fictional character’s sexual orientation just means that they need to find an outlet to release their guilty, tortured feelings about their own desires for members of the same sex.
“Everybody’s got a cell phone that makes pancakes so they don’t want to rock the boat…People have been bought off by guizmos and toys in this country.”
This is so true
i like what he said about this country died a long time ago and now we just play with our gizmo’s and want to be left alone…sounds about right.
I’m not so sure it is the ‘cell phone that makes pancakes’ that keeps Americans cowed. I think its the longer worker week, the job insecurity, and maybe the fear someone in the family will get sick beyond the Insurance Company’s willingness to pay. Everyone I talk to is tired. Yeah, I can see the disgust for people who would rather watch American Idol than engage themselves with something that matters. I also understand the feeling that there isn’t anything anyone can do to make things better. America is in such deep shit and has been ever since the Republicans managed to make a blow job an impeachable offense. What can we do? Electing Democrats sure hasn’t helped.
fishtaco @ 5:
Everyone has a business. Besides, why shouldn’t he be able to profit from his work?
Anyways, his point was that Americans have grown fat, lazy, and apathetic to their current situation. They do not want to ask any difficult questions, they would rather just escape off to their fantasy TV, Xbox, computer, text messaging, land. I don’t expect things will change until the economy really takes a dive and it is no longer to keep it floating through foreign debt and war.
Yay for Carlin, yay for atheists.
Would the reich-wingers care about Dumbledore if he had a wide stance, was propositioning underage male pages, or scoring meth from a male hooker? Perhaps Rowling should add one or more of those traits to Dumbledore as to placate the reich-wing.
Frepi @ 9:
—How so? voting on reality tv shows?–how quick you are, hey make your voice heard here as well-like me
I love CARLIN!!!!
George Carlin has been a voice of sanity in an insane world for decades. He once described all religion as a form of mental illness. The current Theocrat (sic) regime is doing their best to prove him right.
I loved how Carlin pointed out that Busholini was NOT elected (twice)!
Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
FYI
Imagine if the Christofascists put as much energy into helping the poor as they do obsessing over fictional characters.
I mean in the Harry Potter books, not the Bible.
ysbaddaden @ 18:
Although you could have easily meant both :)
It’s wonderful to see Carlin looking so healthy and robust, he has a brilliant mind and I admire him greatly.
“Professional Christians.”
ROFLMAO!
Y’all remember when Carlin was the voice of God in an awful TV cartoon, God, The Devil and Bob?
I keep hoping they’ll bring it back with writers from Married with Children, and with actors Ed O’Neal, Katy Segal as Bob and his wife. For the Devil and God I’d want Pee Wee Herman and Tommy Chong.
Seems like only yesterday since Carlin was a nutty hippie. Now he’s a grizzled, wise sage.
“Professional Christians” indeed.
“all my Stuff” can’t wait to get my hands on this.
Carlin, Pryor, Bruce - the greatest standups ever. Bob & Ray is the greatest duo.imho.
Dr. Matt @ 13:
Dr Matt - now that is a brilliant idea.
Doing Dumbledore is a Larry Craig masturbation fantasy The “compassionate conservative’s” have lost their minds
OT, but worth a look:
Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek:
” The American discussion about Iran has lost all connection to reality. Norman Podhoretz, the neoconservative ideologist whom Bush has consulted on this topic, has written that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is “like Hitler … a revolutionary whose objective is to overturn the going international system and to replace it in the fullness of time with a new order dominated by Iran and ruled by the religio-political culture of Islamofascism.” For this staggering proposition Podhoretz provides not a scintilla of evidence.
Here is the reality. Iran has an economy the size of Finland’s and an annual defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater. Israel and every Arab country (except Syria and Iraq) are quietly or actively allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is about to overturn the international system and replace it with an Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on?”
http://www.newsweek.com/id/57346
And the response from David Frum (policy advisor to Rudy Giuliani) on NRO:
“If a non-nuclear Iran is really so weak, that suggests two conclusions:
A) It is really, really important to prevent Iran from going nuclear. Given the vicious record of the Iranian regime, we should prefer that they stay as weak as they are.
B) If they are so weak, then the US has comparatively little to fear from Iranian retaliation for a strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.”
In other words, they’re not a threat, so let’s blow them to shit just to make sure.
http://frum.nationalreview.com/
Dr. Matt @ 13:
Well, she did put the entrance to the “Chamber of Secrets” in the loo. (Okay, so it was the girl’s lavatory.)
WC Fields
Last Comic Sloshing.
And you can’t say his initials in England.
konchster @ 27:
Didn’t they use to tell kids that if they didn’t stop masturbating they’d become addlepated?
ysbaddaden @ 30:
Whaaaa? ’splain thees to me please!
googly69: Carlin is not GOD, I AM!!
Annoyed Canuck @ 23:
That’s short-term memory loss for ya.
Carlin on BushCo: “I like moving in and hurting them. I don’t like being cute and clever. I like smashing them. It’s the only way to deal with them.”
Speaker of the House George Carlin! He knows how to deal with the America destroying self serving criminal thugs of the reich wing.
liberalNmoderation @ 32:
WC was at least one time used to mean Water Closet, another term for toilet or commode.
I seem to recall that at least one American comedian was banned from a comedy show here for making a joke refering to WC’s during a broadcast.
Of course I think broadcast is a funny word. It sounds like an Olympic sport of female throwing.
liberalNmoderation @ 32:
WC = Water Closet. Old term for ‘toilet.’
I’m holding out for a cell phone that makes waffles. Maybe it could be called the iHopPhone.
Jerry Falwell is smiling? In hell? Is hell as bad as Christians preach?
And yes, the term “professional christian” has become a permanent part of my vocabulary.
Thank you George Carlin.
George Carlin is an hack. He really is a liberal wingnut who wishes this country great harm for his amusement.
Carlin proves there is life after cocaine.
Loved George on Countdown. There’s an awesome clip of him from Youtube telling it like it is. There’s some explicit language no it’s NSFW but it is the truth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTfcAyYGg
Oh and “Colbert’s Echo”? You do realize that Colbert is making fun of conservatives.
bobbie @ 11:
I read some comments here on C & L yesterday and I learned that ALL the aid given to the fire refugees is given by private people. The organisers are receiving more food than they need. So yes, there are things people can do, and they are being done.
If people in general see this, and transfer it to everyday life, then changes will happen.
Shadowgm @ 37:
Ah thanks!
Crow @ 43:
Shhhhhh!!! Don’t spoil the joke!!!!
now this is a comedian , not some jerk like mahers, hes got something to say and you dont have to kiss his ass while hes saying it, to bad hes not given mahers show,
The best part was when he said he doesn’t do a lot of political humor — cause what he’d really like to do is smash the wingnuts.
He’s right. Leno and Letterman will take some shots at the admin., but in the end, all they’ve done is further trivialize Bush’s crimes.
love you
George Carlin
you’re the best man
heh…
Yellow Elephant Safari @ 38:
No that would be the one that makes pancakes
The old boy’s still got it!
Colbert’s Echo @ 41:
George Carlin and Keith Olberman are part of a minority of public figures that have never been anaesthetized by the media. They say it the way it is, not caring if apologists like you engage in name calling. I consider them both heroes equivalent to Paul Revere and George Washington.
Christy Hannity @ 43:
But is there life with out?