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I was in Las Vegas last week (I live in Los Angeles) visiting a friend out there from New York. He wasnted to see George Carlin, and I got tickets for him at the Orleans, a casino hotel known to attract a local redneck clientele. Now, maybe most in the audience were not the types to frequent the off strip Orleans, but Carlin received a good reception with laughs throughout for most of the material. A few looked a little disturbed at some of the anti-religious material.
I thought some of the material sounded very smug, especially Carlin making fun of people who are boring -- can't get them off the phone, or of how parents think "every kid is special." He got some mileage about someone looking at pictures of a kid with a head so big, "put it on YouTube, you'll get alot of hits with a kid with a head that big", or "put it on ebay - a European circus will snap him up in a second."
He spent a few minutes on Bush and politics, but not as much as I would have liked. I happen to know he has a family and kids he's loved and taken care of, so some of the material skewering families feelings about their children I didn't find all that funny.
He constantly teetered on the line between funny and just plain mean.
I don't really care if he votes or not.
