Mon 23 Jun 2008
George Carlin, 71, one of the funniest men in America, died tonight of heart failure. Read one of the last interviews he gave to Salon.
Remembrances are starting to pour in.
In this routine he says that there in no God, and that he prefers to worship the Sun, Humpty Dumpty and Joe Pesce instead. He ends the bit saying: “If God exists may he strike me down now”. Well, it seems God was preoccupied and could attend to Carlin’s request only tonight. I’d love to hear Carlin now, after his death, and to know once and for all if it is indeed Humpty Dumpty greeting the deceased at Heaven’s gates.
And here is his 1978 HBO special:
