Comedian Appreciations

George Carlin died 9 days ago. Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. There, the seven words that made famous by Mr. Carlin which you can't say on TV under any circumstances. You can say Dick, Cock or Ass if you're referring the other meanings of the words. I always loved stand-up comedians, most of these people have to be intelligent and they are usually observant and sharp witted. Other than making us laugh, some of them are there to point out the oddities and absurdity in the society. The average ones confirm stereotypes, the good ones provoke, the strong ones make us aware of things happening around us and demand change. George Carlin was a strong one, his fight against censorship, or against crazy wingnuts and religious nuts are outstanding.

Of course to like a comic, you pretty much have to share the same world view. Good things most comics are quite liberal minded. There are the blue collar guys who are more conservative minded who still produce a good laugh with their stereotypical white trash talk, although it might just be all an act. Dave Chappelle and Carlos Mencia are happy to use their own racial differences to point out racism in general, as if the whole world would run awry if their people are in the spotlight. Margaret Cho screams on the top of her lung for gender and sexual equality. Of course, Bill Maher and Lewis Black are angels and Jon Stewart is god but Bill Dunham, Stephen Lynch and Dane Cook are entertaining too.

I bought Kathy Griffin's For Your Consideration last Tuesday, I liked her since Suddenly Susan. She made a pretty good name for herself on her reality show My Life on the D-List. She had a few stand up routine building upon Hollywood gossips. It doesn't provoke, but at least it humanizes the rich and famous and make us average folks feel better about ourselves.



We love Kathy because she's good to us gays, and that she can appear to be so desperately fame-hungry. For Your Consideration is a shameless promotion for a Grammy nomination. Honestly her other stand up routines could have easily won her a Grammy. For Your Consideration seemed a little bit shy on big laughs. And I have to say I don't get if Kathy is really attracted to her new beau Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. I'm sure he's a very nice man with a fortune, but I thought she usually go for the pretty boy type and Steve don't seem to take care of himself well enough. Anyway, I wish the best for Kathy. I'm pretty sure she's at least a C-list now, no?