George Carlin RIP

George Carlin will posthumously receive the Mark Twain Prize this fall. I always thought he should've been the first to receive this acknowledgement. Not even Richard Pryor was as deft at wielding "obscenity" as legitimately insightful and, most importantly, funny art. Grade school kids and language doctorates both can laugh equally at what he did.

Carlin was the brave realization of the etymological, epistemological, yes even scatological promise Lenny Bruce never really delivered on, in my opinion. Carlin will be talked about in 2108 more so than probably any other stand-up comic from the late twentieth century.