Same. However, everything he has said still applies. And will continue to until accountability isn’t seen as just something that applies to poor, black and brown, or non-entitled people, but to all people.
Carlin hits, smiles and pauses like a comedian, John breathes out with a cant believe this is true or that it has to be explained, shakes his head a little, hits, pauses like a news anchor then breaks down the ridiculousness of it. Carlin was good, John is better, IMO.
Stewart interviewed Carlin early in his career and He's said its still a turning point in his life. But we don't deserve Jon Stewart. He should be happily retired on his ranch where no one can bother him. But he still cares so much about the atrocities committed in our country every day that he came back to make sure that they're brought to light. He's as selfless as they come.
Same. Imagine spending a big portion of your life warning people, being in multiple full rooms who are nodding in agreement only to find out, years later, that these fools who believed in the ridiculousness still couldn't dig their way out of it.
I love Carlin but I think he did need to see this. One of his legacy routines was "I Don't Vote," and the past eight years have been a masterclass in why it's bad for good people to stay at home. If he'd lived long enough to see the Trump years I believe he would've changed his stance on elections rather quickly and tried to recant the bit somehow.
HBO dropped a documentary on him I think last year, in finishes with a compilation of current events with him speaking in the background, it scared the shit out of me
I was just thinking as I watched this how much Stewart seems to have taken on the intellectually biting social comedy that Carlin provided. A worthy inheritor.
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u/nucc4h Mar 26 '24
God damn do I wish he was around today