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...George Carlin's top 10 funniest lines...
...with a joint degree in VES and Social Anthropology, Wing became a photographer. She currently examines spaces such as elevators or parking lots as sites for play and social interaction and spoke to The Crimson via email.THC: Can you tell us about your artistic developments after graduating from college?Carlin Wing: After college I spent some time playing on the professional squash tour. When I started my graduate studies at CalArts I no longer had time to train and compete, but the sport began to make its way into my artwork as subject matter. THC: What made you participate...
Political satire, of course, has had its ups and downs in American comedy. The Eisenhower 1950s proved a fruitful time for outsider satirists like Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce, and the counterculture years of the late '60s and '70s gave rise to stand-up social commentators like George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Robert Klein. By the '80s, however, stand-up had mostly retreated to the home front (Roseanne Barr), the trivia of everyday life (Jerry Seinfeld) and the carefully nonpartisan "topical" jokes of Johnny Carson. In the George W. Bush years, political comedy came back in style, not just...
...Read TIME's Appreciation "How George Carlin Changed Comedy...
...difference here is that Pynchon finally makes one of those characters a licensed gumshoe, albeit one with an incongruous hippie backstory. "Doc" Sportello is an ambling longhair with links to the surfer world and an appetite for controlled substances that would give Hunter S. Thompson pause. Think George Carlin as Philip Marlowe and you're getting there...