A Few Last Words with George Carlin and Tony Hendra: Comedy High Video
www.georgecarlin.com Never before heard conversations between the late, great George Carlin and his friend and co-author, Tony Hendra. Tony Hendra Going back to that willingness to expose that part of yourself that you know everyone else will like and then having people laugh at that, or respond to that, whatever, laughter is just a mouth opening saying I recognize. Therefore, there is a heightened level of reality for you and for the people you are exposed to. It seems to me that would be an end worth achieving, if only for a few minutes to live on another level of reality that isnt normally admitted. George Carlin: Thats right. Its adventuresome. Its risky. Its titillating. Exciting. Its stimulating. TH: Not unlike drug taking. GC: Yeah, yeah, thats true. Thats good. Yeah, yeah, I see your point. Its Try this. Think thats good, try this. Ive got some shit from fuckin Jamaica. My uncle— TH: Thatll put you on another level. GC: Yeah, this is a thing no ones heard of. You put it in your eye. You put this in your eyes, and you dont flinch and youre gonna love it. Ill take some too if you will. I think youre on to something. And I hope you can use some of these threads and thoughts in explaining me and therefore us, you as well, by proxy. You know if theres useful meat in that, thats wonderful because it sure has a basis in hard fact in terms of my career and writing. TH: It also has a kind of perverse logic in the sense that the story of your life that you have gone from ...
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