George Carlin, who died Sunday had just been selected for the 2008 Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The award has been given to eleven comedians who have made us look at American culture and human behavior with an unflinching eye. Both Carlin and Twain used humor to expose the hypocrisy of human behavior.
“Everyone driving slower than you is an idiot, everyone driving faster than you is a maniac”.
George Carlin, Wit and Humor Quotationary
“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.”
Mark Twain, Wit and Humor Quotationary
“Everyone driving slower than you is an idiot, everyone driving faster than you is a maniac”.
George Carlin, Wit and Humor Quotationary
“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.”
Mark Twain, Wit and Humor Quotationary
I would like to recommend some new titles in the APL collection about and by the comedians who help us to laugh at ourselves.
Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America
Seriously Funny: the Rebel comedians of the 1950s and 1960s
I Killed: True Stories of the Road from American's Top Comics
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin
Born Standing Up: a Comic's Life by Steve Martin
The Chris Farley Show: a Biography in Three Acts
It's Good to Be King; the Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Just a Guy: Notes from a Blue Collar Life by Bill Engvall
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