Anyone who's followed him throughout the decades knew what a cynical phony he was and how carefully crafted his image was.
Plus, he was an angry, bitter nihilist, misanthrope and hypocrite. My favorite line was, "They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it..." all the while enjoying the benefits of upward mobility and being able to bash religion without getting excommunicated, jailed or executed.
In Paraguay there is social conflict caused by underemployment and the enormous economic strife among the poor ass people who are mostly rural inhabitants. Positive steps to correct this have occurred since 1989 ousting of Stroessner, and the occupation by the poor of hundreds of thousands of acres of land, which they claimed for subsistence farming. The country's political system is moving toward a fully functioning gimme-dat democracy. However, the tradition of political hierarchical organizational structures and generous rewarding of political favors prevails. The whispers for Chaco War II to take those damn Bolivians over and stop the crushing land-lock is growing.
Early George Carlin before he got bitter was great.
I DISAGREE WITH EVERY WORD YOU TYPES PLUS SOME YOU DIDNT TYPE...I ABSOLUTELY LOVE AND RESPECT THE LATE GREAT GEORGE CARLIN...TOP TEN COMEDIANS EVER WITHOUT QUESTION...HE HAD SOME ROUGH PATCHES IN HIS LIFE AS WE ALL DO BUT PULLED HIMSELF THROUGH A BETTER PERSON....A LEGEND.
shareYou say that like there is something wrong with being an angry, bitter nihilist and misanthrope. All the brightest people are!
shareAside from yourself, not many. He's one of my faves!
shareI've never had any reason to hate him, but I've never thought that anything he said was even remotely funny. There aren't many standup comedians that I think are funny. Eddie Murphy in Delirious (1983) and Raw (1987) was the funniest I've ever seen, by far.
shareHate is too strong of a word to use on somebody you don't know personally. You can say you aren't a fan of this or that persons work and that's fine, but to say you hate them is as if you're saying you take it personally that they made it in show business just because you don't share the same opinion as his many fans all around the world who loved watching/listening to him then as well as now.
With that being said, No I don't share your opinion of dislike for the man. I'm quite a fan who enjoys revisiting his stuff from time to time. I don't know where you been but stand up comedy has always been the way he presented. His way is no different than any other comedian other than him obviously putting his own spin on his stuff to stand out.
Every comedian ever has talked about what interests/disinterests them based on their own experiences of life in general. People love it because they can relate to what they say throughout it and can sit back and laugh about that and laugh when the comedian mixes in his/her punch lines to get said laughs. I see nothing wrong with this but hey, Maybe stand up just isn't for you and that's fine. You want to see a comedy where it's silliness all the way through I'd suggest cartoons.