A Few Last Words with George Carlin and Tony Hendra: Shining Time Station Video

www.georgecarlin.com Never before heard conversations between the late, great George Carlin and his friend and co-author, Tony Hendra. Tony Hendra Anyway, Shining Time Station, you never told me much about that and you always seemed to be very pleased by it. George Carlin: Yeah, I would like to say I think children are overrated, but that having been said.Shining Time station was presented to me as an acting opportunity. Im always trying to show a little different color or two to the folks who decide whos gonna act. You know, have ambitions to one day strangle six children in the street preferably as a priest. Jerry and I, thats the way we characterized it, the kind of role wed like, I want something where my eyes bulge out. I want something to really stretch my eyeballs and shit. When the Shining Time lady came to me I thought Hey heres a chance to show something else, this is could be a side that I could show, you know, gentle, child-like. I was taking the place of Ringo, Ringo Starr played it before me, so that makes me the anti-Pete Best. One of the nice things about it that has won me a whole generation, apparently, of admirers who know nothing about me except little man in the little blue suit, and when I do run into one of these kids at the airport and the parents say Thats him, thats him, go over an say hello and the child is completely fucking traumatized because Im out of uniform and Im way too big. And I had to say to them gently, Im not on the Island of Sodor ...