Carlin’s influence
Carlin’s Catholic background accounted for much of his appeal in the Jewish community, Chicago native Warady said.
“I’ve been doing comedy for 20 years,” said Warady. “It’s funny how the Catholics and Jews always related to each other because we were raised with a structure, and as comedians we were always trying to avoid structure… The Protestants do whatever they want. They don’t know what Jews and Catholics go through.”
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Actually, I always thought he was either Arab or Jewish and just changed his name because he was always talking about Jesus in his routines,” Hanania said in an e-mail.
Actually, Carlin told us over and over that religion was bullshit. That religion got us to believe there’s an invisible man in the sky, and he’s watching you. And he’s got a list of things you should never do. And if you do any one of those things, he’s gonna send you to hell to punish you and you will burn and suffer and choke and cry… BUT HE LOVES YOU.
Had I been George Carlin, I would have mentioned that, obviously, the Quran was written by men and NOT inspired by Allah. That the Bible was written by man and NOT inspired by God.
…but the Torah came from G*d. Obviously. No doubt there. Sure…
ADDED: 48 hours after George Carlin’s death, the news of his death finally reaches Google News…
Yesterday, my good friend JIM on youtube had something to say. Fair Warning: HE WAS PISSED, as was I.