George Carlin   10/5/2007
Gibson Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, Ca. Seat: Loge 13, Row E, Seat 109, 110

George Carlin who is now seventy years old played a set that was in preperation for his eighteenth HBO special. Although very dirty, even crowds in Las Vegas started to leave the show, the newspaper clipping read. I went to find out for myself if they were right... they were.

Tickets

The man himself

This isn't my father's George Carlin, to pervert a phrase, something Carlin himself has loved to do for years on end. The old Carlin liked to talk about things that connected us, like 'fussy eaters' and phrases that needed to be legitimately phased out of the popular parlance, such as 'Have a nice day', 'Down the tubes', or 'Walking papers'.

But the world has become an awfully cold, sterile and strange place since the timeless comic put on his 'Hippy Dippy Weatherman' schtick and made Johnny Carson laugh so hard he had to hide beneath his desk. And Carlin has always been one of our wise if ornery cultural critics, so it seemed fair to assume that his subject matter would only get more graphic and more, well, raw.