Ms. Amused

No George NO!!

I’m in tears now to read that George Carlin is dead.

My introduction to George Carlin was in Outrageous Fortune which was also my introduction and the beginning of my fondness for Bette Midler. It was also the first time I saw Shelley Long in and while I loved her in in it, can’t say so much for the rest of her stuff, it’s hit or miss for me.

But George stole the show…. as he always does any time I see him in something. I love Kevin Smith for casting him in Dogma and then again in his pet project, Jersey Girl. I actually love George best as the grandfather in JG than anything else that I’ve seen him in it. Unlike a lot of Kevin’s fans, I get what Jersey Girl was about and I think it’s wonderful. Will Smith did too which is why his cameo “as himself” is excellent as well.

Man… George…. so many times I wanted to go see him perform live. I lived in Vegas for two years and George played several times while I was there but curse my deafness, I opted out of paying the high ticket prices for a performance I wouldn’t understand without the captions.

But what I can do is get his performance dvds (that are captioned) and watch them instead. In honor of what I would have loved to see in person.

Oh George… it should have been the other one that is a failure at his job… not you. I hope your final weeks were happy ones.