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Occasionally played, often sarcastic, always alert.

author:Chen Mingjiu
Occasionally played, often sarcastic, always alert.

I don't have any faith or worship. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion and God, I don't believe in all the man-made stylized minds—George Carlin

First, the image

If nominating a 20th-century stand-up comedian nominated for someone who combines satire and humor best, George Kalin (1937-2008) certainly has a place.

Today's audience rarely sees him young, because when he appears on the screen, he already has a white beard and appears as an old man.

When George Carlin is silent, his subsistence mouth minimizes the sense of existence, and his gray-green eyes are the most prominent, looking straight ahead, perhaps looking at the busy people, or perhaps through the rules of the world, silently judging them.

But as soon as he ran into the stage like a whirlwind, clutching his microphone and preparing to share it with the audience, his calm and cautious gaze was hidden behind the passionate performance.

When his eyes widened, his eyeballs comically seemed to jump out of his eye sockets. Speaking of excitement, he kept pacing back and forth, as if he had to tell the audience as soon as possible.

His expression is sometimes pompous and sometimes calm, his movements change with the plot like a careful design, his language is both knowledgeable and mixed with vulgar language, and at the same time, because of the deliberate vulgarity, it can make the audience laugh.

Watching his performance, it is as if at any time a lively character jumps out of his body to talk to you. Listening to George Carlin's arguments, he was able to argue with his exquisite reasoning about the irrationality of the world.

On stage, he occasionally plays, often satirically, always alerts, a pungent philosopher, a good satirical comedian, this is George Carlin.

Second, irony: to authority, to hypocrisy,

"I don't have any faith or worship. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion and God, I don't believe in all man-made stylized ideas. — George Carlin (2001)

Society is like a teacher who has been imparting knowledge to thousands of students in it, and George Carlin is the bad student, who keeps his eyes wide open, his hands held high, and he constantly shouts and disrupts the order of the classroom. He said: I object!

He is not "correct", not sleek, not sophisticated, he questions authority, satirizes the public, attacks hypocrisy, and some of the comments are extremely rebellious even when judged on the comedy stage.

There is authority everywhere in life, and authority shapes our lives. The authority of the parents, the authority of society, the authority of the state, even the authority of the masses. Authority governs social life, and the best thing is that those who are in it can't help but maintain the existing order.

It takes courage to rebel against authority, and wisdom to point out what is unreasonable. George Carlin bluntly attacked illogical preaching: "I've had enough of letting people tell me who I should follow!" I hate the slogans that occupy the moral high ground: "The earth is not yet saved by mankind, and those who engage in environmental protection are only for their own interests." ”

He especially attacked the outside world for interfering in children's cognition, believing that parents and society have prematurely deprived children of the right to play freely, resulting in the society being full of some young precocious people aged seventy years old, he said: "When children want to read, they will read. ”

Third, personality: use humor to resolve suffering

Although George Carlin in front of the screen always has an angry image, in my personal opinion, he is a kind old man.

He loves life and not just the meaning of life. In George Carlin's own words: "Although only for a short time, he liked humans. "A moment like that is not a moment of boredom or a daze, not a moment of unmarked bloom like fireworks, there must be many such moments, they must have hit him like bullets.

Summing up his stage experience, Li Said: "Talk show performance is to let the audience start by believing in you, slowly understand you, and fall in love with you. On the cover of Wang Shuo's "Talking to Our Daughter", there is such a sentence: All exposed, my secret experience is not the mood after the farewell;

It is difficult for a talk show actor to demonstrate his personality on the stage, the audience finally likes them as a person, we want to laugh as soon as we see Zhao Benshan talking, and applaud when we see Guo Degang on the field, in reality, not every paragraph can poke everyone, but because they are such people, so the audience recognizes such a unique personality.

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