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George Carlin - George's Best Stuff 
Actors : George Carlin
Director : Rocco Urbisci
Studio : Mpi Home Video
by Mpi Home Video
Brand : MPI
Release Date : 2003-04-29
Publisher : Mpi Home Video
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780788604577
UPC : 030306751696
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 10 reviews)
List Price : $19.98
Our Price : $10.98
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Product Description |
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Studio: Mpi Home Video Release Date: 04/29/2003 Run time: 87 minutes Rating: Nr |
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I've always loved George! |
I've always loved and admired George so of course this review may be a bit bias.
This particular dvd is a conglomeration of years and different venues. For instance the 'dirty word' pops up several times during this dvd but from a different time and place. He just adds to them. It's nice to see George while relatively young and see him age. But the humor doesn't change. His outlook on the world so matches my own, I only wish I could have made a living like he did. He has such a way of showing us how odd we really are. For instance, an attachment to our 'stuff'.
Back to the point. If you are a fan, you will be enchanted by this dvd.
RIP George!
MEF |
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Heavy Influence. |
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I used to watch George Carlin a lot when I was a kid. We regarded him as being quite risqué (lol) but today, I must admit, his brand of humor seems rather dated. What we have to remember with Carlin is that he was a forerunner, and this DVD really makes you realize the type of influence he had on the great comedians of our day--particularly Jerry Seinfeld. He was a giant of the observational method, and laid the ground upon which many a great career has traversed. Carlin's delivery is also magnificent. His acting and presence made him transcend what seems to be so-so material. He's no Chris Rock, but he made an enormous contribution to comedy. |
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George's Best Stuff |
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A Readers Digest collection of mostly ancient bits of his youthful beginnings--much of the routines is dated, maybe funny then but our new youth may not relate. Still George, but he has certainly improved with age. |
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This is comedy like Robin Williams |
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Some of this stuff is from the 70's when George Carlin was young and in 1990, he looked a little bit older like in Scary Movie 3 where he looks like Santa Claus as "the architect". George Carlin is my personal favorite comedian and it's as good as Robin Williams-Live on Broadway.Recently, I heard that nowadays he wants to be taken more seriously.I think he would be very good in something serious. That's just me. |
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The emperor is naked! |
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This is my 2nd bunch of comments on this DVD, my first has not been posted, maybe it never will be. I hope not. I've thought the matter over. I've read a lot of reviews of Carlin since I discovered him the other day, and I've noticed that the people who worship him seem as a general rule to like violence in their "music" and their movies. (I've been reading other reviews by Carlin devotees.) I've also noticed that many if not most of the rave reviews (particularly one that praised his intelligence) are illiterate. A few reviews I agree with. Early, young Carlin was warmer, calmer, more human, more humane and just plain funnier. The comparison can be made on this DVD, because the last bit "Driving" was by an older Carlin. What were previously comical expressions on his face became grotesque manic grimaces, what was sly and warm became ferocious rage, what was controversial (and I get this also from the Jammin'/Doin' It DVD which I watched part of) became meaningless rantings. His early stuff was amusing (I prefer Bob Newhart) and I laughed some, it was not particularly insightful, some of his observations of life and things (eg the differences between dogs and cats, stuff, losing things) were clever and often dead-on. I obviously preferred the younger Carlin (and he was pretty then with all his hair, the older version simply didn't even look like him, whichever was the real him), and I thought the older Carlin was just an explosion of incoherent hatred. Vulgar (yay!), but to me not funny. |
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