Ha muerto George Carlin, uno de mis comediantes favoritos. Irreverente, cínico y sin pelos en la lengua. Veía lo que muchos pasaban por alto y le estrujaba en la cara la hipocresía de los que juzgan a los demás. He aquí algunas de sus frases célebres:
- How come when it’s us it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken it’s an omelette?
- Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- This is a little prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen.
- If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
- I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?
- Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?
- Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
- Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.
- I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
- Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
- Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
- Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
- There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
- I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Hace poco vi un especial en el HIstory Channel en donde se investigaba la historia de los chistes. George Carlin fue uno de los personajes principales en el documental. Con él pasa una generación y una época. Un maestro del stand-up del cual muchas han aprendido. Es irónico que cuando pienso en George Carlin no me da pena sino que me río porque me acuerdo de sus chistes, tal vez ese es su legado, nadie se pondrá triste al recordarlo...
ResponderBorrarQué pena me ha dado esta noticia. Como George Carlin, ninguno. Su agudeza mental y destreza verbal son irrepetibles.
ResponderBorrarSaludos,
Ixia
Carlin era fuera de serie, irrepetible. Lo echaré de menos pero como dice Prometeo, la verdad es que nos dejó material para reirnos por buen tiempo.
ResponderBorrarque pena
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