The next time someone wants to hold a non-entity like Sarah Silverman up as a model of transgressive comedy, they should first listen "This Nigger's Crazy!", "Was It Something I Said" and "Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip."

And then they should shut up.

Is Chris Rock the heir apparent? Dave Chappelle?

George Carlin? Still fucking funny - if you see him anywhere but HBO let me know.

Where's Eddie Murphy? Hanging out with the rich white people in Englewood Cliffs...

Goddam, where's Bill Hicks. I miss Sam Kinison.

Fucking tired of the whitebread comedy of Jay Leno - he's sold his soul for another hundred fucking cars.

Richard Pryor, you will be, you were already, missed.

Come on, someone say something funny.

Summer of 1963 I was booked at the Cafe Wha! in the Village in NYC.

Richard Pryor was on the show. The dressing room we shared was like a

broom closet. I watched his set every night . . . he was really "sumthin else!"

Like they say "You don't know what you got till it's gone"

Brian Hyland

Carlin is on the road about 250 days a year. I saw him in 2002 in San Francisco. He completely filled Davies Symphony Hall, which is fucking enormous and probably holds at least 10 - 15,000 people. And in that case everybody probably knew, as I did, that most of his act was going to left-overs from his HBO special "You Are All Diseased", the funniest such special I have seen in over ten years.

As for Eddie Murphy, I've often wondered why has done NO stand-up since EDDIE MURPHY RAW was released. Granted it was a huge disappointment (and even bigger flop), but I'd love to hear what a more mature Murphy has to say about this ever-crazier world of our's.