Re: Was Steve Martin ever funny?
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You're selling him spectacularly short. Spectacularly.
All comedians steal jokes.
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Everybody swoons over George Carlin, whose 'Seven Dirty Words' is a direct Lenny Bruce ripoff.
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George Carlin got 15 minutes of my life that I wish I had back. He has a relatively new 90-minute or so comedy special on HBO. I decided to give him 15 minutes to make me laugh on once. It never happened. Channel was changed.
He did a show in Cleveland about 7 years ago (give or take a year) at one of the theaters in the theater district here. It was NOT billed as a rehearsal. As it turned out, it was essentially a rehearsal for a taping of another HBO comedy special he was doing. I didn't go to the show, but a local critic said he was reading from a script for a good portion of the show.
Carlin is made out to be a stand-up comedy god, but he seems like total trash.
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