Skip to comments.
Leno to Host Carlin, Coulter on Wednesday
Atlanta Journal Constitution ^
| 6/13/06
| AP Wire Story
Posted on 06/13/2006 3:01:11 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-64 next last
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Last night, Leno was already apologizing to audience for having Coulter on two nights later.
41
posted on
06/13/2006 5:51:06 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Non-Sequitur
Then Carlin or no Carlin, what is Coulter doing there?Accepting an invitation for exposure.
Carlin is less than a talking head. He's a moving mouth.
42
posted on
06/13/2006 5:56:57 AM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(Truth is the new lie.)
To: Non-Sequitur
Coulter already cleaned Maher's clock...and changed his oil too!
They dated. ;^)
43
posted on
06/13/2006 6:02:12 AM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
To: DCPatriot
They dated. ;^) Absolutely no accounting for taste on Coulter's part.
To: period end of story
The best thing Ann could possibly do is make them lose their cool, while she keeps hers. That is all that matters on television.
45
posted on
06/13/2006 6:40:03 AM PDT
by
oblomov
(Join the FR Folding@Home Team (#36120) keyword: folding@home)
To: RedRover
KT Tunstall is a woman. And her music is pretty good, too.
46
posted on
06/13/2006 6:42:46 AM PDT
by
BaBaStooey
(I heart Emma Caulfield.)
To: ontos-on
"I heard Ann on Rusty Humphreys last night and she said she was not appearing with Carlin because for their was no point in her debating a professional comedian."
- Subsequent posters don't seem to get the point that Anne was making. She uses sarcasm to deflate self important liberal elitists and make them look silly. She has to play off of their pomposity and indignation to score points.
Carlin also uses sarcasm, is not pompous and too cool to show indignation. So their debate would be a dual of, "can you top this" funny one liners and he, being a professional comedian who has tested his delivery of one liners before many audiences, would win such a meeting.
To: BaBaStooey
She sure has an interesting night ahead of her! The bright side for her, I guess, is that ratings will be high.
48
posted on
06/13/2006 7:00:28 AM PDT
by
RedRover
To: finnigan2
Yes, but would be worse is for Carlin to appear after Ann...in the event she doesn't remain...and have him zing her repeatedly to the cheers of the morons in the audience.
49
posted on
06/13/2006 7:15:43 AM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Oh, that Carlin. I thought it was going to be John Carlin, former Archivist of the United States (a Clintonista finally eased out by the Bush administration).
To: mjolnir
Carlin is one of the originators of the modern stand up persona. He's over the hill now but at his best he was brilliant and deserves to be ranked with the likes of Richard Pryor.
51
posted on
06/13/2006 9:33:54 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
Carlin is one of the originators of the modern stand up persona. He's over the hill now but at his best he was brilliant and deserves to be ranked with the likes of Richard Pryor.I probably shouldn't say this, because I know it'll make my appraisal of Carlin look weaker, but I never thought Richard Pryor was very funny either-- although I did think he was much funnier than Carlin. The stand up guys I've enjoyed--- Seinfeld, Brian Regan, tend to be "throwbacks." Then again, I suppose there wouldn't be an Eddie Murphy (who I've enjoyed a lot) without a Richard Pryor. The whole topical/conscious/serious point phase in comedy whether in Norman Lear shows or stand up in the seventies/ early eighties was in general something that annoyed me.
52
posted on
06/13/2006 9:52:58 AM PDT
by
mjolnir
("All great change in America begins at the dinner table.")
To: mjolnir
Well it makes your point of view easier to understand. It's just a matter of taste after all. Seinfeld was a throwback to observational humor and Mother-in-law jokes of the stand up comedians of old. Actually back then they called them 'Nightclub Comedians'. Mort Sahl was the one who brought current events into this medium.
53
posted on
06/13/2006 10:08:41 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
He's over the hill now but at his best he was brilliant and deserves to be ranked with the likes of Richard Pryor.
Now there's good company to keep. Both Carlin and Pryor made their reputation on being foul-mouthed. But neither of them were anti-establishment. They're part of the entertainment establishment.
Real anti-establishment commedians, like Andrew Dice Clay, who made the mistake of insulting society's true sacred cows, get shown the door in a real hurry.
54
posted on
06/13/2006 10:39:17 AM PDT
by
Antoninus
(I don't vote for liberals -- regardless of party.)
To: Antoninus
Pryor was the Dostoevsky of comedy. At his best he was drop dead brilliant and highly self critical. If you think Clay's smutty nursery rhymes act was anti establishment...
55
posted on
06/13/2006 10:47:02 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
Pryor was the Dostoevsky of comedy.
Give me a break. I don't remember Fyodor dropping the f-bomb (or equivalent) 20 times per page. He didn't need to because he was a great writer.
56
posted on
06/13/2006 10:52:10 AM PDT
by
Antoninus
(I don't vote for liberals -- regardless of party.)
To: Antoninus
That's what Pauline Kael called him. There was a lot more to him then expletives. Check out 1979's 'Richard Pryor in concert' If only his many imitators understood that.
57
posted on
06/13/2006 1:03:20 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: finnigan2
I don't know if many have seen Carlin on political shows but he is 10 times more nasty and viscous than Michael Moore.
58
posted on
06/13/2006 1:06:35 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
(Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
So what does happen when you bring matter and antimatter together?
59
posted on
06/13/2006 1:07:00 PM PDT
by
Buggman
(L'chaim b'Yeshua HaMashiach!)
To: Borges
Yep nothing agitates "The Man" like:
Little Boy Blue
He needed the money!
60
posted on
06/13/2006 1:08:59 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-64 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson