George Carlin
Last night, my friend Andy invited me to go see a George Carlin concert movie at The Actor’s Gang in Culver City. As part of the WTF Festival (whatever that is) they showed Carlin’s 1992 HBO special followed by a reading from his book, “Last Words” by his daughter, Kelly.
The special was incredible. It’s really amazing — and scary — how his comedy from 17 years ago is still relevant. He made jokes about war against “brown people,” Bush (the elder, but it still worked), Cheney, the environment. And his non-political stuff really got me, too. He was a brilliant comedian.
Tim Robbins is directing the next show for the theater and introduced the movie. While he was speaking, a camera flashed from the audience and he said, “Please, no pictures.” A voice in the audience said, “Oops, sorry” and Tim replied, “Oh, it’s you.” I turned around to see who he was talking to…Roseanne Barr. “I’ll give you the picture later,” she said.
After the show was over, Tim was asking for people to sign up on the email list for the theater.
“I’m embarrassed,” I told him. “I was first introduced to George Carlin as the train conductor on the Thomas the Tank Engine Show.” Yep, that’s what I said to one of the greatest actors and activists around. Good work.
Another pretty cool night in Hollywood.
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