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Originally posted by: A1WOLF1
It’s been a few years now, obviously since he’s been dead for a while but he still holds the record for my worst show ever and that was George Carlin at the MGM. I’m pretty sure they were $80 tickets, pretty expensive in my opinion even back then. I started a thread about it right after I got home and I was surprised how many people agreed with me. He sounded like a very bitter and out-of-touch old man, a couple of people said that MGM had canceled his contract that summer so they speculated that’s why he was so poisonous. I have never walked out of a movie or a show, I always stay till the bitter end but that time we walked out with about 20 minutes left. His opening 10-15 minute monologue was classic Carlin with his brand of observation-ist humor, that was pretty funny but the rest of it went downhill very quickly right after that.
Best – Terry Fator
I saw Carlin over ten years ago at the MGM. He was about to film the same show for HBO. The first bit was about how he picks scabs off his body and saves them. You could have heard crickets in the audience. He told the audience to F off. He then went into a routine about his hatred of cops. There is one guy who gets up and walks out. Carlin blasted him as he was walking out of the theatre. I thought the rest of the show was pretty good. He talked about white guys who shave their heads and try to act black (he called them "wiggers") and he talked about how much he hated people who use their young children to record answering machine recordings.
