[Exeter]

It's really sad. I saw him in concert in Houston back in 1979, and he was hysterical. Now he's just a bitter, cynical old crank who makes Scrooge look like Pauly Shore...

[WestVirginiaRebel]

George Carlin is what Michael Moore will be like in five or ten years.

[RexBeach]

Is there anywhere left in America where George is welcome?

God, he's a bitter sumbitch.

Have you seen the title of his new book? Something like "When Is Christ Bringing the Pork Chops?" My word, that is extraordinarily bad taste, that title. But then, George professes that he does not care two toots in a cuspador...about anything...except getting gigs where he can spout and make the rest of us feel like fools. Pity. He is, I think, a good man spoiled. But he spoiled himself.

[InvisibleChurch]

he does it for the money ... and so people will talk about him

[add925]

George Carlin + Mikhael Moore = Bowling for Bucks

.....and I ain't payin'. So long sukas. Don't let the door hit you 2 in your scrawny & fat arses.

[Ditto]

Seems like the guy has taken a very predictable path from conceited young man to miserable old man.

Thirty years ago, "some people" were idiots.

Fifteen years ago, lots of people became idiots.

Today, everyone but George is an idiot.

He's pleased that he stayed so smart all these years and everyone else became so damn stupid.

It won't be long before all he has to curse at are the "stupid people" changing his diapers for him in the nursing home. And none of them will care what he says.

[Jim Scott]

From the New York Post story:

Strangely, though, Carlin isn't ready to leave town yet: He's jumping to the Stardust in February after a falling out with the MGM Grand.

Carlin, at 67, is no more going to abandon playing Vegas than he is going to stop cursing in his act because they both bring him lots of money, which is probably one of few things aging, bitter men like George Carlin - when they realize that their lives have been basically empty - cling to. Pathetic.

Carlin's obvious belief that he is smarter than everyone else in the room also gets old, fast. He's living on his past fame and celebrity and the fact that he can still curse and swear as well as any rapper while pretending intellectual prowess by mocking everything and everyone. How trite.

If anyone still wants to pay good money to watch this old doper call you names: be our guest....but don't complain about it and don't believe much of what Carlin says, either. He's not leaving Las Vegas anytime soon.

[SmithL]

a dark set that included riffs on suicides and beheadings

Say, you are a good sport, aren't you?

[Texas_Jarhead]

screw Carlin

[theFIRMbss]

>(George) Carlin To Vegas: I HATE YOU

66. Last Laugh gs: Bobcat Goldthwait (Michael Boland) Jeffrey Ross (Dougie Max) Gilbert Gottfried (Comic) Bryan Callen (Bartender) Alan Blumenfeld (Club Owner) Jeff Perry (George Stark) Tom Gallop (Stark's Attorney) Wallace Langham (David Hodges) Sandra Purpuro () Maggie Wheeler (Female Comic) Leslie Bega (Lea) Larry Thomas (Convenience Store Clerk) Molly Weber () Bryan Callen (Bartender Barry Yoder) Grissom and Catherine investigate the murder of a despised comic who died onstage, apparently after drinking from a tainted bottle of water. The case grows more puzzling when a 15-year-old boy dies in a convenience store after drinking the same brand of water. Brass reopens a woman's accidental-death case after spotting the deceased's husband in a flashy new car with a trophy date on his arm. b: 24-Apr-2003 pc: 320 w: Bob Harris (V) & Anthony E. Zuiker s: Bob Harris (V) & Carol Mendelsohn d: Richard J. Lewis NOTE: series creator Anthony Zuiker has a cameo appearance as a heckler in the episode's final scene.

[Huck]

I agree with him about Vegas. Went there once. Hope I never go back. Filthy worthless scumhole. And where it's not filthy and worthless, it's fake. A fake Eiffel Tower. A fake Statue of Liberty. A fake Venice canal. A fake Italian villa. Fake fake fake.

[airborne]

Strangely, though, Carlin isn't ready to leave town yet: He's jumping to the Stardust in February after a falling out with the MGM Grand.

So he insults the paying customers of Las Vegas, and then gets a job across town! What a putz!

[Begin]

I'm just glad that he's not bitter.

[JoeMcNally]

I think that Carlin has had a great career, made us all laugh and think a little. So the guy has one bad show. Big deal. Maybe the MGM was dicking him around, or maybe the vicodin and wine was screwing with him. He is Irish, after all. That much intellect doesn't come free. Give the guy a break. How many of you player-haters have had at least one or two days at work when you though, "Oh geez, I acted like an ass!" I bet everyone has had at least one or two bad days on the job. He did not hurt anyone. He is still the funniest old-school comic on the scene.