seven-word epitaph?
the really sad thing about carlin is that his despair and general old-guy crankiness overtook his sense of humor years ago, and he ran out the clock on an otherwise brilliant career coasting on pure bile thinly disguised as standup. lenny bruce said comedy is pain plus time, but i guess george didn’t have enough of the latter.
regardless, and ironically, i expect he’ll live on in the form of chipper, uplifting witticisms mistakenly attributed to him in the kind of blandly humorous email-forwards my dad likes to pass on. a more fitting version of hell george carlin could not have devised himself.
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