The great thing about Carlin is that he got us to think while making us laugh at the absurdities we put value to at the same time. I'd like to see a present day comedian that can talk about the concept of time for 10 minutes and make it insightful, funny and still hold an audience.

@paulojalaska6896

4 жыл бұрын

perfect! this is the gold dream of all comedians: put value at the joke

@donnebes9421

4 жыл бұрын

Sparksterfu the great thing is he could convince people to give him their hard earned cash to listen to this shit. He’s probably still laughing in his grave.

@milfordcivic6755

4 жыл бұрын

Back in 1978, Carlin didn't have to compete with idiots looking at their phones and taking video of his performance. I miss the days before phones. If you were out for the night and that was it...nobody could contact you...you were in the moment, enjoying what you paid for. Instead everyone has to share every second of everyday with everyone. My take is, if everyone wants to experience what you're doing, they should be there.

@patch_of_briar

4 жыл бұрын

It wasn't really good though...

@AdelaeR

4 жыл бұрын

So true. It was also a time when popular music was still allowed to take it's proper time. This show was around the same time as "Animals" from Pink Floyd. The song "Dogs" on that album is more than 17 minutes long and it's just fantastic the whole time.

Wow this was 40 years ago. Feels like it's only been "a little while"

@Dman9fp

3 жыл бұрын

Some people live 40 years in a month, some live 3 life-times in 5 years. Seems impossible but it happens all the time xD

Man, there are not many comedians who could riff on a subject such as "time" for 10 minutes and make it funny throughout. This man had an amazing mind.

@gentbar7296

6 жыл бұрын

AstralProjector * correct. this conversation proves it.

@Noneofyourfuckingbusiness12

4 жыл бұрын

This whole thing is stupid and makes no sense

@abc456f

4 жыл бұрын

@@Noneofyourfuckingbusiness12 I think it's you, not him.

@wookiejesusofnazarethkashy1940

4 жыл бұрын

@@abc456f No it's definitely him. I've seen good Carlin and this isn't it. Even the best have a bad bit every so often.

@hippa2dahoppa2

4 жыл бұрын

@@wookiejesusofnazarethkashy1940 i agree this was a awful painstaking bit to watch. hes done alot better. this should of been a 2 minute short joke. he could of kept the line "do you know the time, yes" and ended it

“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.” - Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

@hippa2dahoppa2

4 жыл бұрын

thats because unlike animals we have hands and the ability to build. therefore we have more responsibilities. deers are happy just eating foliage everyday. we have the ability to do alot more then animals so our lives move faster therefore we do more and we need to maintain a schedule or else its like driving with no traffic lights

@Alacard0malley

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine if a deer could ask you to imagine what it's like to live in constant fear of being eaten and then see how big our time problem is.

@MothaLuva

4 жыл бұрын

Alacard0malley Who says it lives in constant fear of being eaten? Maybe the fear just kicks in, when it perceives that it’s being stalked and/or attacked. When danger passes, the fear goes away.

@krisellis9682

3 жыл бұрын

Really thoughtful and so true comment and very insightful :)

@eztyson

3 жыл бұрын

Loved Tuesdays with Morrie 😃🙌

What I love about George is he isn't just a comedian, he's a musician of words. This clip is a great example.

@Geronimo_P_

Жыл бұрын

I love that take! A 'Musician of Words'.

"You don't tell time, time tells you" - Geroge Carlin.

I was there! A sophomore in High School. I wanted to get on this film, so a lot of the whistles are mine!

@gentbar7296

6 жыл бұрын

TL Redwine i bet u didn't understand a thing

@iamthewalrus8677

6 жыл бұрын

Lucky

@howardOKC

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I knew a loud one was yours.

@nikmacfarlane6117

3 жыл бұрын

@@gentbar7296 What an absurd thing to say. How old are you? I discovered Carlin as a teenager too.

It's amazing that he can remember all this material during the performance.

George Carlin was absolutley the greatest stand-up comedian of all time. No contest.

@gonjafarma89

6 жыл бұрын

D Sharp Except Richard Prior and all other black comedians.

@abc456f

4 жыл бұрын

@@gonjafarma89 "All" other black comedians? Every single one? I don't think so. There aren't many comedians better than George Carlin. He had a brilliant mind and no one used language as effectively. I'd probably rank three black comedians that are truly funny and intelligent: Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Dave Chappelle. Honorable mention to Eddie Murphy.

@arckocsog253

4 жыл бұрын

I prefer him old and grumpy. Okay, for the looks - he was goodlooking when he was young

@chocolatecoveredgummybears

7 ай бұрын

@@gonjafarma89 lol no

@niranjannaik8787

6 ай бұрын

I agree wholeheartedly. No one even close to GC.

Love this bit. Just brilliant...language we have for time, when we made the whole thing up. Just classic George...

Wow look at all those candid expressions, you really do have to see Carlin when he's on stage to get the full grasp of his performance, I've heard this bit before on Pandora but seeing it really brings it to life, man he really knew how to work the stage didn't he?

His ability to even remember all his thinking is awesome. I must listen to his bits more than once, because you lose so much just being amazed at his memory! Simply the BEST!

GC was my favorite Stand up comedian. He was so right in...Too bad he ran out of time.

@interstategar

10 жыл бұрын

Everybody does, once in a lifetime, eventually,

@reedletters7945

10 жыл бұрын

You get what everybody gets. You get a lifetime ;)

@MySerpentine

9 жыл бұрын

Jaymes Reed --Death, The Sandman ;)

@DavidDsastre

7 жыл бұрын

This comment is a good tribute to Carlin's philosophy

@Mr.Goodkat

6 жыл бұрын

Why he's down there right now screaming up at us.

this shit is moving, Ruth

@johnnymanny2263

7 жыл бұрын

Tim Balch had me in tears lol

Time is always NOW... love you George.Your mind was of the times.

Frankly I'd like to say he went before his time. but he'd probably say he was right on time. that was for you George R.I.P.

I have a lot of these thoughts too but most people think i'm just high when i'm telling them about it.

@user-cc4kq6hl4c

9 жыл бұрын

Me too bro,. I think we're the genius ones lol

@Kleptul

9 жыл бұрын

I remember coming up with my own theory on time's "non-existance" and a possible correlation with the law of conservation of mass, then I googled and found out Stephen Hawking himself beat me to it. I was so pissed.

@safiaiken7752

9 жыл бұрын

He was probably high while he was saying this.

@pierzing.glint1sh76

9 жыл бұрын

You have too much time on your hands. The reason I say that is that George Carlin actually made money off his ramblings unlike you

@TheTony1347

7 жыл бұрын

You sound very cynical

i tell you this: if it was done right, he would have made a BRILLIANT Mad Hatter in an Alice in Wonderland remake.

The 1970s weren't the best American decade, but there was sure a lot to love about those years.

Carlin's facial expressions are amazing in this special, not many comedians do that now days

This guy was doing comedy when I was six years old. He has my way of thinking, he does not have to be high to have these thoughts, just be a critical thinker.

@stevenorton1

8 жыл бұрын

+Zack Gomez He loved cocaine and alcohol.

That shit's moving Ruth. So good.

Such a genius! I've watched this clip 100 times and it's still entertaining!

This man is a pure genius

What BRILLIANT material!

@gentbar7296

6 жыл бұрын

Hermeticism riping relativity yeah

One of my favourite Carlin bits. So thorough and well delivered throughout.

i absolutely love this man. Best momedian ever. George Carlin.

I love that George Carlin was a master with the English language. So much, actually, that all of his act looked like a beautiful painting of words, articulating between each other with such fluency...

Seems like just yesterday when George was prowling the stage, but it feels like an eternity since he's been gone. I guess time waits for no one.

I love how George didn't cut out the mistakes

I love the way he mis-speaks at the start, turns it into a laugh, doesn't break the flow for a moment. A true maestro.

I never laughed during the whole bit, yet I still think this is an astonishing display of comedy in its most original form... He brought back the Art in Comedy. RIP G.Carlin.

George Carlin my hero he will be missed

'Immediately - if not sooner' is one of my favorite expressions for when I need something now.

He was so funny in 1978, it's amazing how he got progressively funnier as time went on. Greatest comedian of all time.

This is so surreal. The delivery, the shooting of it even the subject itself. Reminds me of something that belongs in Twin Peaks.

Oh man, it's weird to see him young. I didn't know his hair was that color!

@shrilleth

7 жыл бұрын

It's hard to imagine that his hair wasn't grey all his life, we see it grey so often

Possibly his cleanest act.

The way he execute ...🙏🏽👌🏽 #classic

I think this may be my favourite Carlin bit. Fantastic ^_^

Actually, a jiffy was originally the amount of time it takes light to go a centimeter, and a flash is the amount of time it takes light to go a distance, so in most cases a jiffy would be faster than a flash.

The present is always happening.

@yaoooy

7 жыл бұрын

as it is always destroyng itself

@spoopbagoot4628

4 жыл бұрын

There is no past or future, only the eternal now.

The best comedy is the kind that can make you both laugh, and think. Rather than trying to hammer people over the head with philosophy, you can turn it into a comedy routine and entertain them with it.

thank you for this upload! George is so inspiring!

almost like saying life is to short...being alive will literally be the longest thing you ever do.. everything else you experience will be short in comparison

for some reason George Carlin when he was young sounds like he should be narrating a Christmas movie

@szymusiek1980

9 жыл бұрын

he sounds like Marky Mark.

@nunyerbidness6417

9 жыл бұрын

Close, Thomas the Tank Engine and Shiny time Station.

@984francis

5 жыл бұрын

He did narrate Thomas The Tank Engine, superbly.

@slantdwave

4 жыл бұрын

Elocution classes

@Alacard0malley

4 жыл бұрын

He started on the radio that might explain something

Classic noone120000! Thanks for sharing. No one like Carlin. Priceless.

Look at that smile. He was such a handsome man. He looks quite dashing here. And he's so smart too. I sure miss him.

I do something weird sometimes that I don't know if anyone else does. I feel like time passes so fast, and yet so inconsistently, and I try to maintain some kind of grip on the continuity of time. So, before I start doing something long and stressful, like work, I will try to establish a single moment as my connection to my future self. My name is Kyle and I will say something like, "Okay, future Kyle, you're starting your shift now, but you can get through it. Just remember this moment and realize you got through it." And then later that night, when I'm getting into my car, in the future, I will remember, and say, "Hey past Kyle, thanks, I did it." It also helps because I have always felt a sort of weird duality to myself. I talk to myself a lot, as if I am talking to another person...am I a complete psycho???

@chalenm1071

6 жыл бұрын

ScienceMusicLove yeah man, you are! But it’s ok, you aren’t alone. I’m a psycho too. Matter of fact, almost everyone you know is a psycho. But you got to keep in mind that people also lie. Most psychos will lie to you, because most psychos are psycho and think you’re out to get them, or that everybody is out to get them. So they lie, but trust me I promise you they are. Point is though you aren’t alone so don’t feel too bad.

Hhahah, this guy is awesome. :D

Isn't forever outside of time? x3 I miss George Carlin. This world definitely needs him.

This isn't comedy, this is goddamn philosophy! What a genius.

Just remember the immortal words of Ted Stryker (Airplane II). We can't live in the past any more, or the present. This is the future.

Master of the English language

@scubyfan

7 жыл бұрын

You're thinking of Hitchens.

Fantastic...before his time.. And there after, presently and to come!

Philosophical comedy. A rare and wondrous achievement.

"Time is a man-made invention." I've been saying that for years. People always look at me funny. From now on, I'll just tell them George Carlin confirms it! =P

Watch how the future goes into the past, good meditation

George Carlin, the man who made me laugh my ass off and also think for myself and question religion. He helped me leave religion and become an atheist. Thank you George :)

Those are the kind of thoughts that go through my head when in home alone and the power goes out

you will never know when you *are*, you can only know when you *were*

This is the best comment section ever.

I don't think there is or will be any comedian that can have as good of a delivery as George Carlin. In my opinion, the best comedian ever. The material he comes up with, how he delivers his jokes, and how he really makes the viewer think about things in a philosophical way, but with amazing humor.

comedy + philosophie = George Carlin. We miss you.

Time... It's all... wibbly-wobbly.

@JMScibra

4 жыл бұрын

Timey-wimey... stuff.

Time is relative. My now, might not be your now.

@ruebenllongoria836

5 жыл бұрын

interstategar yeah. Here’s my now. Damn. 5 years off of yours.

@96Yamari

4 жыл бұрын

@@ruebenllongoria836 There's no NOW!!

My grandfather’s clock had engraved upon it, “Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.” Yes.

This is called smart comedy. Wish we had more of this......

Damn it, video. why do you have to go and end like that? would it hurt you to go on forever?

@chrisjamesr77

8 жыл бұрын

There just wasn't time for it. lol

@schwibz

7 жыл бұрын

+chrisjamesr77 W

@John231984

5 жыл бұрын

They ran out of time.

This is why many suffer from anxiety, because they are always thinking about the future. Also why so many people feel depressed, because they are always thinking about the past. HAHAHA, there is NO now!

@pearlstengel7633

4 жыл бұрын

A wordsmith

There aren't many people born on our planet that have a mindset quite as original as his, I hate to sound arrogant but the main reason I watch Geogre Carlin is because I've thought of things like him ever since I came into the age of reason.

Such a smart skit. Really makes you think about the concept of time.

Non-cynical Carlin is best Carlin.

@Mako561

10 жыл бұрын

I have to agree with you there.

@SkellionPowalskiz

10 жыл бұрын

Non-cynical Carlin is the most fun Carlin, but at least he gives me someone to understand when I'm disgusted and angry about how shit everything is when he's being a cynic.

@Mako561

10 жыл бұрын

SkellionPowalskiz I watched the "cynical" Carlin here on youtube not too long ago, and it really broke my heart to see hear him speak like that. Prior to that, it was more like George had an attitude of " sure things might be weird, and people might be stupid, but in the end we all still do what we want." You said "..when I'm disgusted and angry about how shit everything is.." In my opinion, this attitude is the reason why the world is "shit."

@SkellionPowalskiz

10 жыл бұрын

You have to realize that the only way anyone can do anything about all the shit in this world is to get angry about it. Comedy exists so we can accept the things we'd rather not think about just long enough to make us feel happy, but I believe Carlin was as much of an educator as he was a comedian. I'm sure he wouldn't want everyone to just pretend that the world wasn't fucked and not take things seriously at some point in their lives. I couldn't call myself a fan of George Carlin if I couldn't embrace everything he's done, even if it didn't always make me smile.

@Makoto7494

10 жыл бұрын

That's not the only way to get things done. Sometimes anger only serves to create malice in vain. Also, if you think that happiness is something you only get to feel for a short amount of time, then I got news for you, you're not happy enough. Comedy lets us laugh at everything. The things that are wrong with the world and the things that are right. Later in his life, Carlin became less of a comedian and more of a public speaker. A demotivational speaker. I still think he is one of, if not, the greatest comedian ever, but I think his natural talent for finding stupidity eventually made him less able to laugh at it. So instead, he just points it out. I'll give you an example. In Carlin's less cynical years, he mentioned the hypocrisy of not mentioning farts on television. He didn't get angry about it, but he did point it out. Look at television today. Now, there's fart jokes. No one that I know of ever got angry about it. When Carlin got angry about ideas like the government and society, he just pointed out what was wrong, but nothing's changed. Everything that he mentioned still happens today, and it probably always will. The trick is to not believe that the government is out there solely to control people or anything cynical like that.

"You want that now?" "Yes" "Well, would you like to try again?" LOL

I wish George had more time.

I first saw Goerge Carlin on Ed Sullivan as Al Sleet the Hippie-Dippie Weatherman. But don't you love that no matter when you first turned onto George's humor, he is always as funny as the first time you heard him? He will always be an inspiration to other comics and the source of many laughs for those of us who loved him from the start! Awesome talent right to the end!

"When will 'then' be 'now?" "Soon."

@leonmorte7241

4 жыл бұрын

"What am I looking at?" "Now, sir" "When?"

Am I the only one who thinks that young George Carlin looks a lot like Russell Crowe?

@calebtimes453

6 жыл бұрын

SLEM-P yes

@TCM215

5 жыл бұрын

l scrolled through the comments expecting to find someone saying this. He does here for sure. He didn't when he was younger and older but in his late thirties he does l think

@sarahwebster8927

4 жыл бұрын

Very much so!!

reminded me of my grandfather. in my country sometimes people would ask, do you have a watch? his response was yes, as he continued on his way.

God needed a little laugh in Heaven. Carlin was and will ever be the Greatest Comedian and the Most intelligent of them all.

Back when comedy had class and not cuss words every five seconds

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

4 жыл бұрын

Not like there wasn't Lenny Bruce way before this...

@lunicium

3 жыл бұрын

Watch his "Seven words you're not allowed to say on TV" bit from the same show. That'll change your mind 😂

well portable phones pretty much solved that problem

If this man isnt a comedic genius! So brilliant!

Best comedian of all time. Think of it, half a century and he was still doing shows and everyone still loved (loves!) him! And he was always morphing and changing. I'll miss you, George!

Seems a bit like Robin Williams here..

@cottagechskitty

8 жыл бұрын

ablestmage yeah but he came first :)

@hamarbiljungskile8953

8 жыл бұрын

+cottagechskitty That's what she said.

@averyhunt1890

8 жыл бұрын

+Hamarbi Ljungskile HA!!! Good one XD

@tommyvercetti9413

8 жыл бұрын

+ablestmage to me he looks more like Russell Crowe lol

If shalt thumbs up digitally doth thou thumbs up reality? Doth thou lol in reality whence forth came thou laughter? Doth thou? If time was thou wouldn't thee find a way through thee looking glass on thine timely manner?

I love his analysis of English language expressions:) Also, he was sooo attractive when he was younger

His comedy is timeless!

No now? Why, that's all there is.

@scarfacejasonok

9 жыл бұрын

was*

@politure

9 жыл бұрын

Proxy Scar lol nice

Will be back before you say Jack Robinson...lol!!!

This man is an absolute comedic genius... the best EVER!!!!

I really like young George carlin

The dude's laugh at 1:30 slays me every time

Am I the only one that thinks he resembled Russell Crowe in this clip?

@blake1098

9 жыл бұрын

This was back in 1978.

@AlexRodriguez87

9 жыл бұрын

Well, he did remind me of Jack Nicholson at 5:25

@alghanekar313

9 жыл бұрын

No. I have been thinking this since 2006.

@yagamikyo1162

9 жыл бұрын

wabadie300 You're not the only one, actually a fusion of Mel Gibson and Russell :D and yeah it's more like jack nicholson's voice

time actually exists, but George's context does make sense. love him.

"now" is an infinately thin sliver of a moment thats getting older and older

HAHA Jack Robinson your not back!!

3:15 Was that godzilla laughing?

@carnivorehitman

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

oh my dayz ... he just spoke exactly what i thought about time and i never knew who this guy was a week ago I LOVE HIM

George had a unique view of seeign the world and I miss him