George Carlin’s Last Words
When George Carlin died in 2008 at the age of 71, American comedy lost one of the sharpest and truest voices it had ever known.…
read moreWhen George Carlin died in 2008 at the age of 71, American comedy lost one of the sharpest and truest voices it had ever known.…
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read moreA ventriloquist’s cartoonish dummy can vocalize insults that would earn the ventriloquist himself a punch in the nose. In much the same way, on “harmless…
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