The album’s climax explores an idea that would have been no less incendiary in the months after 9/11. Terrorists get blamed for these explosions that are nothing more than cabbage-fart detonations.” As extravagantly silly as the bit is, it’s clear why Carlin decided to put it away. And you know who gets blamed? Osama bin Laden. “And they build, and they build, and they build until they reach critical fart density-C.F.D.-and they continue to build throughout the flight, until finally some kid turns on a Game Boy and boom! The whole back end of the plane blows off. “These planes get flying so fast that all the most vicious, lethal, volatile, flammable, unstable farts get pushed toward the back of the airplane, where they begin to build up pressure,” he said. In a fashion typical of the comedian, who always passed easily between the corporeal and the sublime, it started as a fart joke. The most striking thing about the show is that Carlin made a joke about Osama bin Laden and an exploding airplane.
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It is available now, under its original title, on Sirius XM, and out on CD and for download next week. Now, fifteen years after the attacks, and eight years after Carlin’s death, material from the two nights has been arranged in a new album by his daughter Kelly, his longtime manager and confidant Jerry Hamza, and an archivist named Logan Heftel. Those original September sets were lost-save for their place in the memory of the audiences in Vegas, who must have woken up to the news on 9/11 with an especially eerie feeling-until cassette recordings were discovered, a few years ago, in Carlin’s archives.
That fall, at a time when many comedians were struggling, often publicly, with questions about how or when to be funny, there were some things, it seems, that even the combative Carlin considered off-limits. After 9/11, Carlin abandoned much of the hour he’d been working on and rewrote other parts, before taping the special, renamed “Complaints and Grievances,” at the Beacon Theatre, in New York. It was going to be called “I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die.” On the morning of September 11th, a lot of people did die. On the nights of September 9 and 10, 2001, the comedian George Carlin performed shows at the MGM Grand casino, in Las Vegas, working through material that he planned to use at the taping of his next HBO special, in November. Photograph by Paul Drinkwater / NBC / NBCU Photo Bank via Getty
In a previously unreleased album recorded on September 9 and 10, 2001, Carlin-shown above in April of that year-joked about Osama bin Laden, an exploding airplane, and his own fascination with disaster and death. George Carlin’s Shocking Prescience on the Nights Before 9/11 – By Ian Crouch George Carlin’s Thoughts On Government CONSPIRACY THEORIES hats were still selling fast on the streets outside” It’s hard to imagine him getting this bit across at the Beacon, in the fall of 2001, when N.Y.P.D. “They’re not on your side.” In a riff that explains why he has always rooted for crooks, he lists instances of malfeasance by the cops-planting evidence, using excessive force, targeting minorities. – “…Carlin laments that the United States has “turned into a nation of rats and squealers,” who, to his immense disgust, have come to venerate, trust, and co-operate with the police.
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