George Carlin: You Are All Diseased Page #2

Synopsis: Legendary comic Carlin comes back to the Beacon theater to angrily rant about airport security, germs, cigars, angels, children and parents, men, names, religion, god, advertising, Bill Jeff and minorities.
Director(s): Rocco Urbisci
  Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
8.6
TV-MA
Year:
1999
65 min
1,089 Views


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You have to be a realist.

You have to be realistic

about terrorism.

Certain groups of

people, certain groups,

Muslim Fundamentalist,

Christian

Fundamentalist,

Jewish Fundamentalist

and just plain

guys from Montana

are going to continue to

make life in this country

very interesting for

a long, long time.

That's the reality.

Angry men in

combat fatigues

talking to God on

a two-way radio

and mothering incoherent

slogans about freedom

are eventually

going to provide us

with a great deal

of entertainment.

Especially after your

stupid, f***ing economy

collapses all around you

and the terrorist come

out of the woodwork

and you'll have anthrax

in your water supply

and serine gas in

your air conditioners.

They'll be chemical

and biological

suitcase bombs

in every city

and I say enjoy it,

relax. Enjoy the show.

Take a f***ing chance.

Put a little fun

in your life.

To me terrorism

is exciting.

It's exciting.

I think the very

idea that you can

set off a bomb

in a marketplace

and kill several

hundred people

is exciting and

stimulating

and I see it as a

form of entertainment.

Entertainment

that's all it is.

Yeah.

But... but I also know

that most Americans

are soft and frightened

and unimaginative

and they don't realize

there's such a thing

as dangerous fun

and they certainly

don't recognize

a good show when

they see one.

I have always

been willing

to put myself at

great personal risk

for the sake of

entertainment.

And I've always been

willing to put you

at great personal risk

for the same reason.

As far as I'm concerned

all of this

airport security,

all the searches,

the screenings,

the cameras, the questions

it's just one more way

of reducing your liberty

and reminding you

that they can f*** with

you anytime they want

as long as you

put up with it.

As long as you

put up with it,

which means of course

anytime they want

cause that's what

Americans do now.

Their always willing

to trade away

a little of their freedom

in exchange for

the feeling,

the illusion of security.

What we have now

is a completely

neurotic population

obsessed with

security and safety

and crime and drugs

and cleanliness

and hygiene and germs.

There's another

thing, germs.

Where did this

sudden fear of germs

come from in this country?

Had you noticed this,

the media constantly

running stories

about all the

latest infections,

salmonella, ecoli,

hanka virus, bird flu

and Americans

panic easily

so now everybody's

running around

scrubbing this

and spraying that

and overcooking

their food

and repeatedly

washing their hands

trying to avoid all

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George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic. Carlin was noted for his black comedy and reflections on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. He and his "seven dirty words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a 5–4 decision affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comics; one newspaper called Carlin "the dean of counterculture comedians". In April 2004, he placed second on the Comedy Central list of "Top 10 Comedians of US Audiences".The first of Carlin's 14 stand-up comedy specials for HBO was filmed in 1977. From the late 1980s, Carlin's routines focused on sociocultural criticism of American society. He often commented on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirized the excesses of American culture. He was a frequent performer and guest host on The Tonight Show during the three-decade Johnny Carson era, and hosted the first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975. His final HBO special, It's Bad for Ya, was filmed less than four months before his death. In 2008, he was posthumously awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him second (behind Richard Pryor) on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time. more…

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