Carlin
The amazing thing about George Carlin - dead yesterday at the age of 71 - was how profoundly he impacted the medium of television and how profoundly it avoided him, as though he were a plague in ponytail. His early Fox show was perfect Fox, in its early iteration - iconoclastic but safe enough for the airwaves. Carlin certainly couldn't last long with a straitjacket like this on, and I do believe the show lasted only one season
Carlin - as you are also aware - was the VERY FIRST host of "Saturday Night Live." The very first, which is sort of like an act of consecration - three words that have never been applied to Carlin. Ever. (Desecration? Yes...) If memory serves, Carlin was in the first sketch and expired on-stage of a coronary. No comment...[So much for my lousy memory. Check out Eric's comment below. He points out that this wasn't Carlin in that sketch, but the great Michael O'Donoghue, who was Carlin's doppelganger, in certain respects. Without O'Donoghue and his lacerating humor so similar to Carliln's, there would be no "SNL." Thanks, Eric.]
In any event, the Web is full of Carliniana, as you might well imagine. Thousands of clips, including those of his famous HBO appearances. You can find snippets of the early "Tonight" ones with Carson, and many of his later scorched-earth appearances - on concert hall stages, not on TV. His later TV stuff, in fact - best I can tell - is not outstanding. From what I've sampled this morning, he was not what we call a "revelatory" interview, anxious to share with whomever what made him tick. There is - alas - no "Oprah" appearance. That may have something to do with his standoffish relationship with a medium that he quite literally shaped (the seven words you can't say on TV; remember?) It may have to do with the fact that he was selling something when he did these infrequent interviews (a boxed set of something or other.) He was complicit in the corporate selling machine in those moments, and perhaps knew it... A recent interview with Olbermann was interesting, but fawning - a mutual admiration society encounter.
So...I must go all the way back to '97, when Carlin did this memorable interview with David Letterman. It's seven minutes long and the quality of the clip is horrific, but it's a nice snap-shot of Middle-to-Late Period Carlin: Caustic, as always, but funny and no seven deadly words:
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Just an FYI, it wasn't George Carlin in the first sketch of the very first SNL. I believe it was Michael O'Donoghue opposite John Belushi.
In fact, and here's where my memory may be hazy, I don't think Carlin was in any of the sketches. He just did a couple of monologues.
You are correct. SNL is rerunning the episode this Saturday June 28, btw.
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