Some comedians have made a living with one-liners, some make fun of their lame sex lives and some just milked their one-note routine for a while and went away (see ya, Diceman).

The best comedians have always been astute observers of absurdity in an ordinary day; their material was about the stuff we saw all around but we didn’t see how funny — or stupid — it could be. Taking something overt and repackaging it so you have a completely different perspective on it is an art. And today, we lost an artist.

George Carlin died of heart failure at age 71. Read the rest of this entry »