Up on the roof

George Carlin, renowned comic, died yesterday at the age of 71. It's not that I can't believe he died... it's that I can't believe he was 71.

Best known for the Milwaukee Seven, or the Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV and it's associated Supreme Court case, George Carlin was a case study in the exercise of the Freedom of Speech, and sometimes beyond. While I never really held the same beliefs or politics, one can't argue that the man wasn't funny.

From Ed Sullivan to the Tonight Show, from Saturday Night Live to his HBO specials, George always kept us laughing and like any court jester, he was not only funny, he was astute. Quite often his subjects were cutting edge, forcing us not only to laugh, but to think.

So for the founder of Frisbeetarianism; The belief that when one dies, ones soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck.

Here's to you George, you, and your humor, will be missed.