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A Green Room Memory of George Carlin

Written by: Lea Lane 6/24/2008 12:28:54 PM

I so admired George Carlin’s funny-tough take on things, and his love of words. I read his books, saw him perform stand-up in Vegas, Tivoed his TV specials and his talk-show appearances. He was one of the great ones.
I actually met him years ago, right after he had traded in his short-haired TV weather man persona for a pony-tailed post-beatnik look. I spent an hour or so sitting next to him in a green room waiting to be interviewed for some game show. (Back then, when I was in my 20s, I went through a period where I wanted to be validated by those shows. I was on Jeopardy! And then I was on two more shows I can’t remember.) Dozens of years before Deal or No Deal and the gaggle of dopey reality shows, winning a few hundred dollars, an encyclopedia and a carton of bubble bath was a big deal. And so was being on TV.
I can’t remember if we were in New York or California, or what show we were trying out for. I do remember that I didn’t understand why Carlin was there and I realized I hadn’t seen him appear in a while. Maybe he was down on his luck, or he was in a heavy drug phase.
He was sitting with his young daughter and he was totally involved with her. They talked quietly, playing some game or another. He nodded at me a few times, but I might as well have not been in the room.
You can tell quite a bit about a person when you see how he treats a child. Carlin was gentle and focused. I watched him, and I felt for him. Funny how the memory of this comedy icon is so personal, even though I didn’t know him. He seemed like such a doting father.
Like some of the other original comics who died too soon -- Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Andy Kaufman-- he changed comedy, nudged it along. Although he wasn’t overtly partisan, he would have had much to say about the ironies and hypocrises of the upcoming election. We will have to go on without his keen, tough observations, his out-there word play, and his absurd take on life.
We honor George Carlin by speaking those seven verboten words wherever and whenever we want. But I suspect, at least in regard to his daughter, that he was a softie whose words were loving.
 




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