GEORGE CARLIN ~ May 12, 1937 to June 22, 2008

Thank you George Carlin for keeping it REAL!

You will be terribly missed...

"American's don't question things anymore. We don't question things because everybody is fat and happy." ~ by George Carlin

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Click here to read the entire HBO.com EXCLUSIVE George Carlin interview. I've typed a little of the interview below:

HBO:

How did you come up with the title for your new special?

George Carlin:

It's BAD FOR YA refers to the bullshit in America that's all around us, from birth to death. It's part of a longer thought - the total sentence is, "It's Bullshit folks. It's ALL Bullshit, and it's Bad For Ya." And it is. A lot of Bullshit is poisonous and toxic to you. So you have to spot the Bullshit, and know which Bullshit to walk around and which Bullshit to meet head on.

HBO:

So besides "Bullshit", what can the audience expect to hear in the show?

George Carlin:

A lot of this show has to do with things we don't question. Americans don't question things anymore. We don't question things because everybody is fat and happy - and way to f**ken prosperous for their own good. Everybody has got a cell phone that'll make pancakes now. So they don't want to rock the boat. Everybody just goes along. That's how you get bullshitted; by NOT looking at things carefully and questioning them.

HBO:

So what do you say to people who take it the wrong way... or take offense?

George Carlin:

If you are not offending someone, you are not doing your job as a comedian. No matter what kind of material you are doing, you have to be rubbing them a bit against the grain they have grown use to. For the artistic tension to arise: for the fun to start. If you are just, OK'ing everything, it's NOT much of a night. People who don't like me - I never hear from, so I don't know what their story is. But I don't blame them. I have my own little cut of the pie in America. My people, who like my stuff.