If you haven’t been paying attention to what’s been happening around you, perhaps you should start paying closer attention, because it’s happening.  It happening, your country is being overthrown and it isn’t going to stop happening until you’ve been completely overrun by a brutal and unaccountable corporatocracy without a face and a regenerative head.  As I stated before in a couple other posts, I grew up enjoying standup comedy with my father ever since I was a kid.  Rare were such moments when I would feel emotional about a famous person passing away, but I actually wept when George Carlin died.  I grew up listening to him, since the days when he was more of a wordsmith who would do wonderful routines about the English language, some of them were even moderately clean comedy routines.  Hit such as “Icebox Man” and “Fussy Eater”, from his album, A Place For My Stuff, were personal childhood favorites of mine.  But as he got older, he held back less and opened up more in ways that truly spoke the truth about American culture, our government, politics, and the true owners and controllers of our country.  Rather than getting into a big opine of him and trying to convince you how awesome he was, I’ll let him speak for himself and you can decide for yourself.

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One of my favorite things as a kid was watching standup comedy laser discs with my father when laser disc preceded the Betamax. I’m sure plenty of you are aware of the laser disc players that came out after VHS some years before DVD, Blu-Ray and streaming came along and put Laser Blazer in West L.A. out of business (before Jay and Silent Bob relocated their Secret Stash), but I’m not talking about that laser disc. My love for the religion of standup comedy started back when you shoved a big thick plastic laser disc into the machine like an 8-track. How in the Hell that the true comic genius had escaped my radar for so many years, being that he’s been doing it for well over 20 years, is beyond me. I don’t know, maybe it was because I grew up on Richard Pryor and Redd Fox. But as I’ve stated before, I’m a Pandora fanatic, and I discovered him a bit too late in my life on the Political Comedy channel.  I won’t go into a huge long diatribe on him nor his material, because his comedy speaks for itself and though I’ve not been booed off a stage at an open mic, I still haven’t done enough reps to criticize or critique or say who’s good and who isn’t.  I was just so shocked to find someone whom I could almost call my spirit animal.

But for fuck’s sake, you cheap fucker, buy his material and support independent standup comedians who are out there grinding and making people laugh.  This was only a small excerpt of a fantastic show, No Refunds, which I saw on Netflix.  But you can find lots of great stuff here.

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