When I was a kid my friend Mark Duncan and I would wear out diamond needles listing to George Carlin albums. We were in Catholic school at the time and it was pure rapture (pun intended) to listen to him mock the authority of our overlords.
His shtik was more gentle back then; he seemed to still posses some fondness for Holy Mother Church. Later, perhaps as his own beliefs changed, his routines took on a decisively more aggressive tone.
In an interview with Reuters in 2001 he said, "I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas."
The one thing he did believe in was the sun:
His shtik was more gentle back then; he seemed to still posses some fondness for Holy Mother Church. Later, perhaps as his own beliefs changed, his routines took on a decisively more aggressive tone.
In an interview with Reuters in 2001 he said, "I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas."
The one thing he did believe in was the sun:
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