was quite successful on getting ed sullivan gigs and so forth. >> here is comedian comedy star george carlinforecast, dark. >> carlin at first wanted just to have success, and he got that success and then felt that he was getting that success in a way that didn't speak to his heart. >> i used to be this guy or maybe this guy used to be me, i don't know, we were each other at one time. wa't long ag i liked him. you know, he was really good. he was funny. i had a lot of fun with him. he did some nice things for me. but there was nothing behind him, you know? he was kind of just superficial, just surface. it was all characters. i wasn't in there. i found out i wasn't in my own act. >> the guy who picks up from lenny is george, who basically goes right after the taboos again. he's constantly picking and picking and picking. >> and the irish priests were always heavily into penance and punishment. couple of novenas to do, nine first fridays, five first saturdays, stations of the cross, trip to lourdes. wow. that was one of the things that bothered me about my religion was the conflict between pai

he was quite successful on getting ed sullivan gigs and so forth. >> here is george carlin. >> tonight's dark. >> carlin, at first, just wanted to have success and he got that success and then felt that he was getting that success in a way that didn't speak to his heart. >> i use to be this guy, or maybe this guy use to be me, i don't know, we were each other at one time. that was long ago, he -- i liked him, you know, he was really good. he was funny. he did some nice things for me. it was like -- there was nothing behind him, you know. he was kind of just superficial. he was all characters. i found that i wasn't in hi own act. >> he goes right after, you know, the taboos again, he's constantly picking and picking and picking zblch the irish priest were heavily into pennants and punishment. they give you a couple to do. five fresh saturdays, a trip, wow. that was one of the things that bothered me a little about my religion, that conflict between pain and pleasure, you know, because they were always pushing for pleasure and you were always pulling for pressure. >> george carlin was a wo

your culture he died sadly in about nine hundred ninety two a was as i was he was somewhat like george carlin somewhat like lenny bruce i knew george and lenny very well and never heard of bill hicks or given the least minute dead i'm not in the dead of any of them am i ok satellite can mean whichever of they once great men that's now sadly date i mean are take any one of those three ok the new labor if this hero is every school for him to get drugs for him nope and i know how he got addicted he got addicted when he was very sick there he gave a morphine and that's how he got to probably spend in tommy here i imagine he probably wanted to unwind own son a hospital i am a beach. he was for terrific do you have do you have a do one liner jokes ryan clark asks. did no one want i see any young women no not really a con everything seems to take a long while i wish i had the brevity i wish i could be like your great president lincoln you said like i didn't have time to write a show a letter from a everything is very bias call monro any helen mirren stories from martha to oh my god yes there's amazi

congress this is the weapons contract that blows up people around the globe on a daily basis as george carlin said we're really good at bombing brown people so our imperial imperialist wars don't count as furthering white supremacy no that doesn't that doesn't count. but of course it wasn't just corporate democrats who jumped on the hypocrisy train it was the republicans to john mccain tweeted white supremacists aren't patriots they're traitors americans must unite against hatred and bigotry of course he's right about that statement that statement is correct but he's a massive hypocrite he perhaps more than any other senator has lobbied for bombing just about every country on the map well let me correct myself every not white country on the map as well as russia and a few others he's done nothing but further our white supremacist imperialist war hungry bullshit for decades this isn't even i'm not even mentioning the extremist we've funded the extremist we've created via drone bombings etc and that actually brings me to one of the darkest things. i thought about roughly in an hour after the ch

talk a lot about the things that influenced them as a kid, they'll say, "well, i listened to george carlin's records as a kid," or "steve martin," or "andy kaufman." and, my understanding of your backstory here is that you didn't necessarily think, as a kid, "i wanna be a a comedian, i wanna do stand-up." you don't necessarily have that same story. - no, no, not at all. if anything, it was more of, "i want to be an actor." but i didn't even really think that. i didn't really have the capacity to think that i was somebody who could do something like that. you hear that a lot from people, maybe, "i didn't know that was a possibility," or, especially with comedy, i just thought, "i'm female, i'm kind of odd, "i'm kind of an interior person." and comedy was something where it was mostly a guy talking about his thoughts and being real... - right, extroverted. - extroverted, but as time went on, it started with me doing performance art, and then people... my performance art was always performer-audience based and i started getting laughter in places where i didn't necessarily intend to get laughte

journey guilty pleasure kind of a news junkie what never fails to make you less richard pryor george carlin what superpower would you like to have the ability to see the future in hollywood maybe . best compliment you ever got well this is one of them to be your table i grew up watching you know mountain really is an honor to be with you this is one of them something you wish you were better at business favor john hughes film probably sixteen can start it all for me yeah biggest perk to being a celebrity being acknowledged by people and it's a nice it's a nice thing and i think urgent is strangest fan encounter i'll lot of my do some a lot of signings in these comic cons and stuff and sometimes i meet people that have some funny experiences or good usually people dressed up in cars play outfits or whatever or people just coming up to me just you know acknowledging the work that they grew up with me it's really it's very humbling and also encouraging it is on me and you say that to me about me thank you this was something people don't know about it i'm a writer yeah i write first for me i'm

. >> there's lenny bruce and george carlin seven words you can't say on tv.re about being honest than inappropriate. a comedian who speaks that way off stage is most likely to speak that way on stage. we lost another major comedian yesterday, dick gregory who spoke honestly about politics on stage and he was the first black comedian to shatter the color line in comedy. prior to 1961, white comedians played one circuit and black comedians addressed another. dick gregory came along and was hired as an emergency fill-in at the playboy club in chicago in 1961 and became the first black comedian not only to address a white audience, but to talk about civil rights issues on stage through his comedy and through his jokes and for that reason was extremely influential and when we talk about dick greigry and when we talk about jerry lewis, consider this, dick gregory was the number one nightclub comedian of 1961. jerry lewis was the number one screen comedian in movies in 1961, and both of them were extremely influential and if you combined jerry lewis and combined dic

is that like george carlin jumbo shrimp joke? logical joke side. >> no. all day i've been thinking about you. i know you're a lover of hip hop. talking about kanye west. this is a nuclear interaction that he is threatening, fire and fury and he fundamentally doesn't understand if he enters other this distraction with kim jong-un and north korea in this. certainly the men and women protecting our country. >> i appreciate that. rick tyler, if we are going to do foreign policy by tweet or lyric, which i don't recommend, i would definitely prefer diddy and less talk about the military. >> it's dangerous. imagine what the south korean ambassador is saying, oh, wait, there isn't one. right? this is a real problem. the whole region is probably freaking out and this fire and fury is kind of laughable. >> you think it is a joke. >> you think it is comical. >> so sophomoric. so laughable. and did he sound like kim jong-un who said, after mccain called him fat crazy boy, kim jong-un got upset and he would reduce u.s. to ashes. >> that kind

rushmore of american comedy, the two comedians that would be put on there are richard pryor and george carliny owes his career to dick gregory. comedy ages less form than any other art form. so when we go back to '61, we might not realize how funny he was, but he was transcendent and funny and there at so many historic opportunities from the watts riot to muhammed ali to negotiating for the hostages in iran. he was a fascinating american life. >> a true lion, and we wish him and his family god speed. and thank you so much, mark thompson, mike pesca, we really appreciate it. that is our show for today. join us next weekend for more "a.m. joy." up next, alex witt discusses charlottesville with the head of donald trump's diversity coalition. more news at the top of the hour. this time it's his turn. you have 4.3 minutes to yourself. this calls for a taste of cheesecake. new philadelphia cheesecake cups. rich, creamy cheesecake with real strawberries. find them with the refrigerated desserts. at ally, we offer low rates on home loans. but if that's not enough, we offer our price match guarantee t