George Carlin is a lot of things, but politically correct isn't one of them.
Blaming the growing trend of on-campus PC speech on the powers-that-be who run northeast colleges, Carlin said "to me, they're all repugnant and I just ignore the whole fucking thing."
In front of a jam-packed crowd of college-age and older fans at Eisenhower Auditorium, Carlin held true to this reputation with highly entertaining results.
Almost no one was safe from becoming the target of Carlin's often-hysterical tirades, including hit-and-run victims and people who commit suicide.
"These people you've run over have enough problems already. Leave them alone. It's none of your business. And besides, it happened back there. Stop living in the past," he quipped.
Carlin was not done: "Somewhere around the world, some guy is getting ready to kill himself," he said. "Isn't that great?"
Carlin joked that he is such a big fan of suicide, he'd like to see a suicide channel. During sweeps month, he said, they could get hundreds of homeless people and prisoners to jump off the top of the Grand Canyon.
"Maybe we can get a lot of these Christian assholes to do it, and call it 'jump for Jesus,' ", he said.
If Christians and the homeless weren't taboo enough targets, don't fret -- Carlin next turned to young women who die prematurely.
"It seems a shame to me that some fine young pussy is rotting away six feet under," he said, "If you can transplant a heart ... "
It was at this moment that Carlin seemingly found a new cause: "Fuck the whales, save the pussies," he quipped.
Carlin then turned to his "people who ought to be killed" skit, a comic bit he has used before. Among those Carlin said he would like to see die grisly deaths include people who read self-help books and put "proud parents of an honor student" bumper stickers on their cars.
Carlin suggested some more realistic bumper sticker slogans: "We have a daughter at public school who's not knocked up yet."
Those who are sensitive would not have loved this show. But for anyone with a thick skin, this show was a blast. While he started out somewhat slow, cracking one-liners that were only somewhat amusing, Carlin was in his element within the first 15 minutes. The audience's growing laughter confirmed this.
Before Carlin took the stage, comedian Dennis Blair did an admirable job warming up the crowd, who laughed throughout his roughly 30-minute performance.
Ribbing orange alerts, France, pilots who drink and smoke pot, and cops who ride bicycles, Blair was thoroughly entertaining.
Regarding bike-cops, he quipped, "Where do you put the criminal? In a basket?"



