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Good evening. I'm Shana Alexander.

Home box office has asked me to introduce tonight's On Location

Carlin. Tonight you will see a performance usually seen only if you can

the nightclubs, college campuses, and theaters where George Carlin is a

sellout. A portion of Mr. Carlin's performance needs special introduction,

least for television.

His target is language, how we use it and abuse it. Some would simply say that

tonight's language is very strong.

Others would say it goes beyond this and would find it vulgar.

Aristophanes, Chaucer, and Shakespeare were vulgar, too, at times.

Anyway, the segment is controversial.

It provoked a legal proceeding at the Federal Communications Commission.

In March of this year, I am happy to say, a federal court of appeals ruled in

favor of Mr.

Carlin's right to freedom of speech.

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In the United States, in 1977, that includes George Carlin, one of this

generation's philosophers of comedy, defining, reflecting, and refining the

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It contains language you hear every day on the street, though rarely on TV.

For those of you who already know George Carlin, you're in for a special

evening. For those of you who want to know George Carlin, I'm glad to be here

introduce you. And now, George Carlin on location.

The people who influenced me for the most part, I don't know about influence,

but made me laugh the hardest, and I guess the influence would be part of

was as a child starting out with Danny Kaye, Abbott and Costello, Spike Jonze,

the Marx Brothers, then a little older like Ernie Kovacs, Bob and Ray, Steve

Allen when he first had those late night shows, Mort Saul, Lenny Bruce, Jonathan

Winters, Nichols and May, and that line of craziness, you know.

I don't know how many had their influence. Some did, obviously, some

others. But Danny Kaye was the biggest influence because it made me want to be

in show business.

So that would have to be the starter, you know.

What are the most dramatic ways you're forced to alter your performances for

television? Well, the most important alteration is that you can't use the

of language that's generally called dirty or bad or filthy language.

That's the prime. And that's not a big restriction if you have something to

Obviously, you don't need a series of...

of street terms to make your ideas clear, but they're very useful at

ideas and enhancing characters and in giving the element of reality to speech

that you want. You can suspend that for six minutes on television.

I wouldn't like to suspend it for two hours on the stage because I think it

would take something away from, although I'm sure I could do two hours without

it, I just feel that I'd miss a lot of important emphases if I didn't have

access to the whole language, you know?

When I was on the Ed Sullivan, this is the funniest censorship one I know of.

When I was on Ed Sullivan, I had two jokes in one monologue in one six

area I was doing. One was about Wallace. It was during the time of that

election. It was about Wallace, George Wallace. And I said, he keeps calling

everybody pointy -headed.

He refers to pointy -headed intellectuals.

I said, have you ever seen...

The sheets they wear down there or something like that. It was it was said

better. So it was a good joke I was referring to the Klan, of course, right?

that was a Klan joke.

The other thing was I was referring to little crimes We don't worry about in

this country like padding your income tax cheating on the expense account and

genocide and that and that was right in the middle of Vietnam War So they told

me I had a choice They said you can either have the Wallace joke or the

joke, but you can't have both

I said, take out the Wallace, give me the genocide.

Seemed like a better joke.

So that's all I can tell you. But you don't go in there to try and change

system usually.

You go in there to fit within it for your own narrow purposes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you all. Hello.

Yeah, thank you.

Within the first few moments, he had the snakes going.

How are you all? All right, huh? You sound good.

Yeah, you sure sound like that.

Did you all come in the same van by any chance?

There's an awful lot of unity here.

Anyway, good to see you. Fucking tourists.

What can you do?

Yeah, it's home box office, you know. It's not our home yet, but we can watch

at home.

Because I never did a concert before where I got a chance to look at it later

and tape it. You can do that thing, but I've always just avoided it.

But we're doing a little tape for home consumption.

And... Are you nervous?

Yeah, you have a nice character.

That's... Pardon me?

What? What? Louder? Is the Louder family here?

They follow me everywhere.

They've been in every city I've ever appeared in.

They just sit there and yell their name. Louder! Yes, I know.

I know. This is the Los Angeles Louder.

Yes.

Yeah, when you do a sound check with no bodies here, it always changes a little

later, and we'll all get used to how this place sounds.

Not only to you and me, but to the guy who's going... We'll all meet each other

somewhere in the middle, and if I think of anything really intelligent, I'll say

it slowly and clearly.

But those periods will be quite noticeable.

So, have you noticed there aren't many Chinese guys named Rusty?

True.

I assume the name just never caught on over there, you know.

Well, that's sort of my job, to think about stuff that a lot of us are too

for most of the time.

Little things that occur to us, we have universal ground, you know.

We have little common areas of turf that we all meet, but stuff we don't talk

about, little experiences that happen. They're just not important enough.

You think about the economy, think about your future, think about your family.

You're not time for little things like that. Did you ever belch and almost

I almost puked.

It was a belch, but puke was involved.

Sometimes you belch and taste the hot dog you had two days ago.

You might even remember the setting, you know, and the temperature, the breeze,

who you were with, you know, a lot of things.

Just gone so quickly.

Did you ever clear your throat for another person?

Someone's talking and he has a hocker and he's going... And you go...

Knock it loose.

So we share a lot of little fun things.

When you're alone, when someone... When you're in someone else's house and they

leave you in the room, any room, alone for a moment,

Do you look in the drawers?

Yeah, I do.

Yeah,

I don't want to steal anything, you know. I just want to know where

is.

In case I'm asked.

That's right, officer. The third drawer on the left -hand side.

Never get me for withholding evidence.

Sure, well, anyway.

We get to travel around a lot of spots alone. You know, most places we go, we

alone.

Sometimes two people go places, you know, two people, three, four. A lot of

different size groups we have. You know, we go places in a lot of different

sizes. Sometimes there's 73 of us in a place. That's it.

73 of us went there.

Stadium, 80 ,000. Gem Stadium, wow, 80 ,000 of us went there.

Million and a half view parade.

Boy, a million and a half of us getting together, that's really a big bunch, you

know. Come on, everybody, okay.

You know, there's no place that we've all been together. There's no place

everybody goes.

Wouldn't that be great to have a meeting that everybody would have to go to?

Everybody, over here!

Wouldn't it be great if everybody came to your house?

Oh, is it?

Mods, chairs.

Not prepared.

Don't just drop over.

Well, anyway.

So, you know, some of the kind of places I'd like to bring us.

We go to play Monopoly in groups of four, five, six, huh?

I guess.

Monopoly, I still play now and then. I think you never leave that completely.

You know, if they need an extra guy, you know, I don't start them up.

Come on. Okay, put me in a place.

Because I was never very good at it, you know. I didn't do very well. Well, I

have a couple of railroads, you know.

I'm not a complete asshole.

I have a couple of railroads. Snap up Baltic Avenue as soon as that became

available.

How much is that?

Sixty? Let me have that mother.

About the best thing I'd ever have would be Oh, maybe one piece of property in

the light blue series.

Oriental Avenue, nothing on it, of course.

Maybe an excavation.

That's about all I ever had on my stuff was plans, surveyor's marks.

All my friends had industrial parks, condominiums, shopping centers, malls.

boy, Colin, you're coming down my side now.

Wow. Big one.

Hot shit, a 12.

Of

course,

you can't move your token till you remember which one you had.

Which token did I have?

You bullshit, you had the... You got the red, you got the red, you got the... I

get the ship, I get the battleship every game.

The worst token to have was the gun.

The big cannon. It was the only token that kept falling over, you know?

It was the only top... If you throw the dice anywhere near that one... Who are

you? Are you the gun? Are you the gun? Pick it up, would you please?

And you, are you in jail or just visiting?

Okay, well put the car on the outside if you're just visiting.

Some guys cared.

That's why they won.

I never won. I was always in there at the end, though, at the end of the game,

because I'd have all the $1 bills, man.

Sure, 1 ,500 in singles, and they needed me to make change, man, for all their

filthy deals.

No, I wasn't that good at the game.

Generally, I used to...

I would land on chance all the time.

Constantly landing on chance.

Try to buy it.

You're getting more fights trying to buy chance.

Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Chance.

Little man with a hat.

$200 for being an asshole.

Shuffle them good. That's the second time I got that one.

Did you ever go to shake hands with a guy and he doesn't notice?

You have to make believe it's something you do all the time.

Something I picked up in college.

Seeing you at the supermarket, a lot of things happen in the supermarket that we

all, I think, experience when we're there. Obviously it doesn't happen to

when you're not there.

But little things like, have you ever selected an item at the supermarket and

begun to put it in someone else's...

Basket by mistake?

You feel alien for a moment. It's like, ooh, ooh.

I almost put that in his basket.

My basket.

My basket.

The

macaroni and the

cupcakes, that's mine.

My goodness, look at this here. We're going to... Oh, we have a little trouble

with the mic?

All right.

Okay, tell Johnson I'll call him at the end of the week.

Figure why not utilize the contact to pass along information.

No wasted things.

Well,

let's see if the jokes get any better.

We've got a new microphone.

Where was I? Oh, yes, I believe I was over here.

Supermarket. Did you ever in the supermarket walk away with someone

They get mad.

Hey, come here, that's my stuff!

Not yet, it isn't.

Still belongs to all of us.

And if I want to shop out of your cart, I'll shop out of your cart.

You got any scallions?

Okay, let him go.

Did you ever look at someone else's cart and say, ooh, goddamn, look what they

eat?

Do

this.

Get your cart full. Get a full cart, a whole mound of groceries.

And fill up the bottom part, too. You know what goes down there? Case of

large box of Tide.

Get the whole thing full and go on down to the checkout counter and look for

somebody with just one item.

And ask them if you can get ahead of them.

Pardon me. You might.

Pardon me. You might have to get ahead of you. Okay.

All I have is a full cart.

Did you ever try to go through the express lane with more than the

number of items?

You have to give them the quick count.

One.

Two, three.

111 packs of Franks. It's all one item.

Go ahead.

It's quicker than arguing.

I find the best way to go shopping at the supermarket is to be a little

Don't eat for a couple of days.

Two days is just about right. You go any longer than that, you begin to

hallucinate and all the cans look the same.

But two days is pretty nice.

And get good and hungry. And then smoke eight joints, take $500, and go to the

supermarket.

You buy everything.

Canned cans.

Just what I need.

And things you really love, you buy two of them.

Because you know you're going to eat one as soon as you get home.

But you get over a few aisles in that condition and you realize that, well,

you've overdone it a little bit.

You have a motorcade of carts.

Complete with tow hitches and reflector raincoats, man.

You've lost control again.

And whenever you spend too much money in the supermarket, you have to start

putting back some of the expensive items.

Like ham, canned ham, $8, fuck ham.

Get some more Junior Mint, Tony, I put the ham back.

Yeah, you know the nice thing about putting things back in the supermarket,

you return an item, you know where you put it, don't you? You put it anywhere

you want.

They expect that. Put it anywhere, Marge. They don't care. They don't give

shit.

They have guys who straighten that out.

Guys with purple fingers come around at midnight.

In the morning, everything is back.

It's the mystery of the supermarket.

Did you ever go to the supermarket in the head neighborhood? Obviously you

So if you go to the supermarket in any neighborhood where people are getting a

little higher than they are in the average neighborhood, which is pretty

already when you think about it, but any neighborhood that's near a university

or near an old beatnik ghetto, you know, or a bohemian area, hippie

neighborhood, you know, the supermarket in that area, go into the supermarket in

the head neighborhood and take a look at the cookie section, man.

Looks like a war zone.

Half the packages are open.

And all the good cookies are gone.

Where the hell are the Malamars?

Oh, yeah, we can't get them in the store. They line up at the truck for

There's always lots of shitty cookies, you know.

Local cookies.

Fucking Jim's cookies.

63 varieties.

Man, if you can't make cookies in 62 tries, leave me out, man.

I don't want to be part of your experiment, Jim.

Hey, you know, in the supermarket, I'm really a sucker at the checkout line.

Well, I'm kind of an impulse buyer, you know.

Anything that's hanging up, I want it.

Give me a case of C batteries, please.

Dozen razors, subscription to Women's Day, and how about that cash register?

that for sale by any chance?

It's a lovely model.

I think that'll be it.

Oh, no, gotta buy the bargain of the week, you know.

The garbage can full of juicy fruit.

44 cents, shit, can't go wrong.

I never need gum again.

Hey, Marge, we're set on gum.

That would be a good feeling, you know, to be really ahead on one commodity.

Never have to worry about it again, you know. Like buy something, yeah,

sneakers. Hey, let me have 66 pairs of sneakers, would you please?

Shit, that's it. Never have to sweat that again.

Never have to shop for sneakers again as long as I live.

You know, that's got to make you feel good.

You go on to other things, you know.

Now the real work.

Well, anyway.

Walking, just plain old walking, is a source of a lot of experience we'd

recognize. I mean, of course, you know, we walk pretty well.

Humans.

Got it down pretty good, wouldn't you say? Hello there.

Hi, Dad.

Look at this. Still walking.

Of course, I'm talking about walking erect, right?

Homo erectus or whatever he was.

This dude. Because, I mean, it's one of the few things that separates us from

the lower animals.

Walking and hats, right?

Rarely see a lower animal with a hat. If he does, chances are a man put it on

him, you know?

But there are some animals that walk erect for short bursts.

You've seen them, you know.

That's not it, and we know it now.

This is fucking walking.

We know what walking is. We have a right to be proud.

Being able to walk like that.

And a right to be embarrassed when it doesn't work.

When we walk dopey.

Sometimes you do something dumb, you know.

Sometimes it's not your fault, but you always blame it on something else.

Just a little misstep.

Blame it on the sidewalk.

Can't be me. I'm graceful.

You've seen it.

Got me fucking

boulder in the road.

Might be the shoes. They're not mine. I borrowed them.

Not used to the souls. Goodbye.

Couldn't be me.

That's why I like with a limp, you know.

Limp, some people go, ooh, that's not right. Guy with limps don't do that.

Unless you just got the limp. But you've seen some guys. Some guys are good,

man. Some guys are really into their limps. They've had it a long time, man.

It's like years. And you've seen guys like that, man.

Shit, they pivot on it.

Shoes.

You've seen those guys.

You see them go up a spiral staircase.

Did you see that?

It's bruising something.

Guys can handle it when you've had a limp a long time. It's when you just get

limp. When it's a new limp that you're not good at it yet.

And you go, ah,

ah,

ah, why did this steal me from my leg?

That's when you're not too cold.

Did you ever walk and count your footsteps? You know how many of them

each box on the sidewalk?

One, two, one, two.

One, two and a half.

Carry a half. One, two and a half.

I hate doing math when I'm walking.

Did you ever look at yourself in store windows?

Got to check it out, right?

Trying to see your profile?

I've never seen it.

Sometimes you're walking up the stairs and you think there's another stair.

You have to go into a little routine, you know.

Throw them off. Hi there, hi.

Good thing stereo's on mezzanine.

Sometimes you're going...

Down the stairs.

And you think, there's another one.

There's

your

dog.

What? Said, how's your dog?

He's fine, man. Fine.

Looking new neighbors, man.

How's our dogs?

My dog has complete freedom.

How's he like it? Don't know. We haven't seen him in eight years.

What do dogs do on their day off?

They can't lie around.

That's their job.

Get up. It's your day off.

Does this ever happen to you? Your dog and you are home. And you're home with

your person, whoever your person might be.

And you're upstairs watching TV late at night in bed. Got the dog with you. Got

the light on. You're reading, talking to each other. Got half a Pepsi there.

Some Doritos, man. Everything is nice.

And a dog is shown on television.

When a dog is shown on TV, do you try to get your dog to look at the dog he's

on?

Look at the doggy!

Look at the dog!

Look at the dog, you asshole! Look at the dog!

Look!

They never look where you want.

If you point, they look at your hand.

Yeah, you try to get them to look. Oh, they watch your hand. Hey, look at his

hand. It's pushing my head.

What did I do now?

Well, for one thing, you missed the dog.

Same situation late at night. You're with your person. You're with your dog

the bedroom televisions on lights around you're talking still got some Pepsi

left Doritos are holding out good And one of you says to the other

Honey

did you fart?

I thought you farted.

Not me.

Now, that's not even one of my farts.

I know.

The dog farted.

Look at him.

Chippy, why did you fart?

Look, he knows he farted.

Yeah, I seen his ass open up.

Well, I just happened to be looking at his ass by chance.

I thought he was doing deep breathing exercises. I don't...

What the hell do I know about dogs, for Christ's sake?

Now your dog, you may know this, your dog doesn't care.

Dogs essentially don't care.

Don't really care at all.

You've never seen a dog with a list of priorities?

Dogs have no standards.

Most things they do, they will do anywhere at any time.

Except the few that you taught them better never do that or I'll beat the

out of you.

They do catch on to that.

They can also be made to appear smart by performing a series of meaningless

tricks.

Like chasing a rubber newspaper that squeaks.

Which doesn't make for intelligence as far as I'm concerned. Dogs are highly

emotional.

ESP going for them. Their telepathic button.

Not so greatly smart.

A lot of that. Now the dog might just embarrass you if it gets the chance.

Let's go out to the front of your house, out to the living room.

And you're there now with your doggies there, of course.

And you have some friends in.

Some neighbors over sitting around the coffee table.

And chit -chat, you know, talking to each other. You brought your Pepsi down,

but fuck them, let them get their own Doritos.

I'm not here to feed the neighborhood.

And everybody's sitting around and the dog is licking his balls.

And nobody mentions it.

Spectacular thing going on there. If I could reach, I'd never leave the house,

man. Are you kidding me?

They don't even mention it.

They say things like, isn't he cute?

He's taking a bath.

He appears to be licking his balls to me, Marge.

Yeah, he's been on that one spot for over an hour.

That's a mighty selective bath.

No, no, no, no. Nice doggy. No, no, nice doggy. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no.

Nice doggy. No, no, no.

Don't you know they have the cleanest mouth of any animal?

I'm just going by where he's been, honey.

I'm not a chemist.

Now, when we have cats, we usually have them for a different reason.

Because of their independence.

I mean, that's generally one of the qualities we like. There's a certain

affectionateness, which I think has to do with static electricity.

But their cats are cool because they're independent. That's usually people

always who have me say, well, you know.

Hey, he takes care of himself, makes his own clothes, drives himself to work.

I never have to do a thing for him.

Cats are cool. Cats are aloof and separate, you know, and that's kind of

Do you ever pet a cat who's lying flat, and by the time you get halfway, his ass

is way up in the air?

Oh, look at that nice... Holy Christ!

How did he do that?

What the hell is that?

They jump on your chest, they put their ass in your face and go...

What

is that? Get him off me, will you?

I don't even know what that is and I don't like it.

I think it has to do with ecstasy or something.

He misses his mommy.

Yeah, bullshit, you always say that.

You said that about the mailman.

I have a theory on why people moan at certain jokes.

Envy.

I'm forced into that position.

Cats have a great quality. Cats have the quality of somehow never having to pay

dues for things they do that are really moronic.

Dumb things. If you see a cat do something really poor, for a cat, that

Like jumping from the floor up onto a table and landing in four coffee cups.

Did you ever notice that somehow they get out of it?

They just go on to the next thing. There's no post -mortem, no reference to

dumb thing. Hi there, I'm doing this now. Look at this, you know.

I mean, a cat can race across the carpet and crash into a glass door.

I meant that. I meant that.

I've been practicing that for a year.

That's what they do when they get behind the couch.

Fuck it.

Look behind your couch. You'll find a cat recuperating.

Yeah, little slings and crutches and shit.

Well,

I tried to make it to the window sill from the bed. I didn't make it.

So my theory that old folks, old folks and kids got a lot in common.

For one thing, they both look like this.

We call them both farts.

Right? Cute little farts and old farts.

I'm just an old fart.

But mainly they're both discriminated against because of their age.

How old they are or how old they aren't.

That's how it starts out. You're too young.

You're not old enough.

Pretty soon they're saying, sorry, you're too old.

Jesus, that was quick.

I was standing right here.

Yes, old folks are really just bent kids, you know.

Used children.

Sure, it's in between that we forget how to act. In between those two states.

And that awe, you know, and that innocence that we have to act a certain

I'm 21 now, got to stand, talk, and walk a certain way. How do you do? I'm 25,

30 now. How do you do? I'm grown up, 35, 40. How do you do? Play some golf? Good

to see you. Say hello to the wife. 45, 50. I'm 55, 60, 65. I'm 70, 75. Oh, now

can piss in my pants again, man.

Kids, besides being too young, are also

too little.

That's another thing they have to put up with.

They're too goddamn little.

You've noticed them, haven't you?

I wouldn't laugh in front of them, man, but they're too fucking little.

Kids spend all that time, all those important years, way the hell down

Teeny little things, they really do start you out small when you're a kid,

they?

Look at this, Dan.

We've got a kid.

What's going to do with him?

Going to raise him.

Don't plant him too deep, you know.

Sure, for all those years you're stuck down there and the whole world's up

Or you're stuck down here and the whole world is up there.

Everything's up there.

Everything's built for them.

All the furniture, right?

Oh, they give you one little table and a couple of chairs in your room, you

know. But your brother sits on it and breaks it.

You're stuck. Everything's up there.

Hey, pardon me. Hey, I'm going to cigarette, will you? Ouch, God damn it.

You want to look for the cookies?

Would you look for the cookies, please?

Yeah, they're up there. They're not down here.

They don't keep them here. They keep them up there. I can't see up there at

I've never seen it up there.

I wouldn't know where to look. They're up there somewhere. Just take a look

around, would you? Would you please look around? Just give it a chance. Give it

a try. Just look everywhere. Open everything up. Open everything.

Look at everything. Up high. Do you know where they are? He knows where they

are. Tell him. Tell him where they are. He knows where they are. Give me a help.

Hey, tell him. Just tell him. Just tell him. Hey, come on. Hurry up. Police

should come. Come on.

Yeah, man.

You don't know much down here. What do you know about the nap of the rug?

I have a pretty clear idea about...

The migration of dust in an urban apartment.

You know where all the electrical outlets are.

Makes you handy as hell the week before Christmas.

Come here, Dad, I'll show you. Come on, hang on over here, right here.

This one had a brown mark on it.

Sure, you're just a little guy down here, and your handle is extended.

That's the thing they use to take you places.

Come on, we're going downtown.

And simply because you're so small, just because you're tiny,

they pick you up and throw you in the air.

You don't see them throwing each other in the air, do you?

It isn't safe.

Just you, because you're teeny.

Your uncle comes over on Thanksgiving.

Whoa, boy.

Look at him.

Ain't he a teeny?

Goddamn. I'm going to throw him up in the air.

Come here.

I got him.

I got you. Hold on.

I got him.

Okay.

I'm sorry.

I lost him in the sun.

We got any turkey left?

Yeah, there were rules. I wasn't too good at rules myself.

Well, I was good at breaking them.

You'd think that would count, you know. It's a category.

No such luck.

It was marked against you. I didn't have a lot of luck with them because they

didn't all seem logical to me. For some reason or another, some of them seemed

dumb.

Now, there were good rules, to be sure. There were some fine rules.

No running with the scissors.

That's one I always obeyed.

Made sense to me.

Shit, this big mother will go right through me.

What are you doing?

I'm not running with the scissors.

Another good rule was no sticking your head out of the high -speed railroad

train window.

Goddamn, Dad, good rule.

Oh, yeah.

Doesn't want us to get our heads chopped off.

Fucking great. Must be having a great day, Dad.

Dad, it was some rules that were not so intelligently drawn, I felt.

Some things that didn't make a lot of sense. No running in the halls.

Hey.

Why? Because it looks like fun, that's why.

No running in the halls.

Where are you going to run? In the rooms?

Got to keep turning in the rooms, man.

Can't get up any speed at all in the room.

Hallways are made for running.

Another dumb rule I thought was no singing at the table.

Why?

One guy with a bad voice a hundred years ago fucked it up for everybody else.

Why?

No singing at the table.

Why? Because I said so.

First sign of a dumb rule.

Yeah.

You can stand right next to the table all during dinner and sing your ass off.

It's not covered by the rule.

I'm standing near the table during dinner and I'm singing and it isn't even

covered by your rule.

Sit down, you.

That was your middle name, you.

Did you ever at home when you go to make a sandwich,

Do you reach down past the first two or three pieces of bread to get the good

bread?

It's sort of a survival thing.

You know, it's sort of like, let my family have the rotten bread.

I'll take care of numero uno.

Down we go into the healthy part of the loaf.

Sometimes you're going down into the loaf, not so much because of freshness

mold, but because of the size of the piece of bread you want.

As we all know, the fat slices are somewhere near the middle.

And down you go, and you have to go past about eight or nine slices until you

get what you want, and then you hope they don't rip on the way up.

Just before you get them out, the top eight slices go boom and fall the other

way.

Oh, shit. I just leave them crooked, don't you?

Yeah. Let them think a burglar made a sandwich, you know.

Not me, honey. I didn't do that. I never do that.

That's like, who the fuck is it in my house who puts away the milk carton with

this much milk in it, man?

Who the fuck put that away?

I thought that was full.

Frozen peas. Did you ever notice that frozen peas are all the same size?

There are no small frozen peas. They're all alike. If you have a favorite frozen

pea and you drop the box, you'll never see your favorite again.

Strange thing.

The butter warmer.

We have that.

We were cold. Man originally was cold, so he built a house. Hot box to live in.

Warm box. Live inside the warm box. Pretty cool. Cold out here. Warm inside

warm box.

Everything was nice until he realized the meat.

didn't keep in the warm box.

So he built a refrigerator, built a cold box inside the warm box.

Meat keeps fine, but the butter doesn't spread.

So he built the butter warmer, put a warm box inside the cold box inside the

warm box.

Strange folks.

If you use vitamins, most good vitamins don't have a trade name stamped on them.

They're blank pills.

They look like vitamins.

But they're not marked.

And if you go on the road and you take a lot of vitamins with you, enough for

like two weeks, you might put them in another big vial, unmarked.

And now you've got an unmarked vial with unmarked pills in it. And if you're

going through some little place, maybe where the cops got a heart on that day,

and he wants to give you a little trouble, a little heat, he can hold you

while while they send these things down to the lab.

And off your vitamins go. And that's why I always travel with Flintstone

vitamins.

Honest, officer, there's Wilma and Dino. Look.

Hey, you're right. Look, it is Wilma.

Guy had to cut me loose, man. He had to cut me loose. I had Wilma.

Pussyfoot. Interesting word. It's a rare female birth defect.

A lot of people don't know that.

Talk to you again.

Envy.

Somebody, somebody has to think of this stuff.

Oh, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to bring a little of the news your way.

It's time to find out.

I'd like to take a look at the news.

First of all, the headlines.

Welcome wagon runs over newcomer.

Terrorists blow up Central America and leave a note.

Off -duty policeman killed by on -duty criminal.

21 killed in 21 -gun salute.

And a football team dies in sudden -death overtime.

Police fired over the heads of rioters today. However, they killed 200 people

living on the second floor.

Scientists have discovered a new disease which has no symptoms.

It is impossible to detect and there's no known cure.

Fortunately, no cases have been reported thus far.

Doctors in Florida claim they are treating a 107 -year -old woman who is

pregnant. They say that because of her advanced age, she will have a grown -up.

A man has barricaded himself inside of his house. However, he is not armed and

no one is paying any attention to him.

A man in Milwaukee has been arrested for attempting to use food stamps to mail a

watermelon.

Christ fucking studio audience in a newsroom. You ever hear of anything like

that?

Food and Drug Administration announced today that saliva causes stomach cancer.

However, only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

And in Philadelphia, he's been arrested for attempting to make an unauthorized

deposit in a sperm bank.

diaphragms, folks.

At the lake in City Park today, police arrested a one -armed man who was

bothering the other boaters by continuously rowing in a circle.

A dog has exploded on a busy downtown street corner.

No one was killed. However, 20 people were overcome by fur.

Police claim that 50 to 60 fleas also lost their lives in the blast.

Kind of wind up the news tonight.

Scientists have discovered a vaccine for apathy.

However, they claim no one is showing the slightest bit of interest in it.

They're going to throw it away.

Well, I knew that with a name like George, I would have to add something

else.

Any old name can have emotion for you, though. Even a brand name.

Product names have things you expect from them. You have a little emotional

investment in certain names. I mean, you wouldn't buy, you wouldn't eat Goodyear

pancakes, right?

Any more than you would drive an Aunt Jemima tires, right?

You have feelings, you have expectations about it.

If janitor and a drum made a douche, no one would buy it.

There's no market.

It's like 20 mule team mini pads, man.

There's no market for them.

Raid feminine hygiene spray.

That's what they call them, feminine hygiene spray.

They're underleg deodorants.

Why did they avoid that? It's obvious, underarm, underleg.

Why did they avoid that, you know?

I guess it's because you have two armpits, you only have one leg pit.

Well, I think things ought to be named for what they are. I think there ought

be a little more truth in names. You know, they've tried to clean up

claims. Let them clean up some of the names like Xello and Acme and Ace and

Bullshit.

Things to be called what they are. I'd like to bring out a new card. The 1977

piece of shit.

A division of United Consumer Fuckers.

Yeah, company names are fun.

Wham -O. Wham -O is a toy company.

Aren't you glad it's not an airline?

Did you get into Big Wham -O Bird, huh?

There's some just plain old words that are sort of fun to think of or look at

more closely than usual.

Things like hot water heater.

Have you ever thought of hot water heaters?

Pardon me? I said I'd like to buy a hot water heater.

What the hell for?

Hot water doesn't need to be heated.

You must want a cold water heater.

How about a hot water cooler?

Yeah, some words are fun.

Words like flammable.

Flammable, inflammable, and non -inflammable.

Why are there three?

Doesn't it seem to you as though two words ought to be able to handle that

I mean, either the thing flams or it doesn't flam.

Now, flammable, flammable, that's the one that's on the side of the truck.

Flammable.

As if you're going to get out of your car at 60 miles an hour and smoke on his

truck.

I found out the reason it says that on the truck is so that just in case you

should be spinning out of control at 70 or 80, heading for the truck, you'll

know what it was that happened, you know?

Gives you a chance to make a few plans, you know?

Put the cigarettes out! Put the cigarettes out!

And, of course, there's a moment just after beginning to blow up when you stop

blowing up for just a moment.

and you say, fucking flammable, then,

of course, you do continue to blow up.

Nothing we can do about that.

Jumbo shrimp.

Indeed.

What do you expect when you order that? What will arrive?

Will it be a large shrimp or a little jumbo?

Jumbo shrimp. Those words don't even go together, man.

That's like military intelligence. They have that, too.

How did they do that?

There's another phrase like that. Business ethics.

We're discussing business ethics. Yes, no wonder we couldn't hear anything over

here.

That's like a plastic glass.

We have them.

Mine isn't. Mine's a glass glass, goddammit.

But they have the... Get me a plastic glass.

Well, I'll see what I can do.

Pretty soon they'll have nylon rubbers. They do. They have nylon rubbers.

All right.

In your filth.

Hey, Tremones wasn't bad so far, about an hour and a half.

Now, hold on. I have a real great idea. As soon as I think of it, we're all

going to laugh our asses off.

Right?

The airline has given us a lot of strange words and expressions and ways

at language that they force us into. We have words from the airline like

deplane.

I've never de -boated, I've never de -buffed.

By God, I've de -planed.

We'll be de -planing through the forward door.

I'm already on de -plane.

That's what they tell you. Get on the plane, get on the plane. Fuck you, I'm

getting in the plane.

Let Evel Knievel get on the plane.

I'll be inside with you folks in uniform.

You seem to know where to sit.

Airlines got a load of things. They tell you to go to your gate. Go to your

gate. There's no gates.

Have you ever seen a gate at the airport?

There ain't no fucking gates.

Where the hell are the gates? They have a lot of doorways. They have a lot of

pathways. They have a lot of carpeting. They have a lot of seats.

They got rostrums and podiums. They got railings. They got velvet ropes.

There ain't a goddamn gate at the airport.

Shit, I've missed three planes looking for my gate.

Gate 49.

Goddamn, there must be a bunch of them around here someplace.

Where are they?

And airlines also have another thing called a non -stop flight.

Not me, bullshit.

I insist that my flight stop.

Preferably right at the end.

That's when they tell you you'll be landing shortly.

Does that mean we're going to miss the runway, honey?

No, it just means we're on our final approach.

That's when they tell you to put your seat back forward.

You mean one time or a lot of times?

Put your seat back. I don't bend like that.

And then, one further example of the airline's perversion of language.

When two airplanes almost crash right into each other, up in the sky,

they call that a near miss.

It's a near hit, gang.

Thank you. You're nice, guys.

We're having fun, you know.

I had a couple more word thoughts, but that's true.

I thought of most of them anyway.

There is left that group of words that we praise.

Well, they're your words, gang.

And I praise them, too, because they are sort of fun, just as a hobby, if

nothing else.

These words are only, let's see, let's call them this. They're the words that

can't say all the time.

I find that to be about the most comfortable umbrella, you know.

They're just words that we can't say all the time.

Sometimes, yes, sometimes.

But not all the time.

When you're a kid, you can't say them at all.

Not one.

None. That's it. No.

But you do keep growing.

They can't stop that.

Pretty soon the words hell and damn break through.

Hey, I didn't get hit. I know.

Then Dad tells you a joke with shit in it.

Don't tell your mom, I said then.

Why not?

Well, you can't use them words all the time.

My trouble was I wanted a list.

I didn't think it was asking much.

Here are these words I'm not supposed to say.

Let's have a look at them.

I'll be glad to avoid them if I could just see them and know what they are.

gotta say them to find out what they are, man. Shit!

Oh,

fuck!

All right, hey, enough, man. A list, please, ma.

Sure, that's all you need when you're six years old now.

Here's the list of words your dad and I don't ever want to hear you say.

Oh, thanks, ma.

Hey, that'll save me an ass -kicking, you know.

There's no list.

So, enough of trial and error. Goddamn.

Now, there are different places where you can't use words, right? I mean,

sometimes the minister's wife is one. You definitely don't say them to the

minister's wife.

And all of those thousands of other places that... Come on, next time I'll

there. Hey!

I got a really filthy joke for you, Bill.

But there's a lady here.

Oh, that's okay. She's filthy, too. Go ahead, Glenn. Let's hear it.

Depends on who you're with, right? They're just the words we can't say all

time. Now I wanted my list.

to reflect an area I was interested in. The time that you can't say them all the

time that I picked was radio and television time.

That's one of the places where we can't use them, and I guess that's largely

because television is paid for by private industry and regulated by the

government. So, you know, you think of what those two groups are doing, even to

each other, you know.

So you can imagine what they did to radio and television. Right, they turned

into a billboard, and it belongs to the Brillo and Biscuit folks.

And that's all it'll ever be. And so as a result, they want to restrict your

language some of the time.

Not all of the time. Some of those words aren't always dirty. I found that out

trying to make a list, trying to get a little journeyman list going here from

us. I want to know the ones I can never, never say on television. Because some

of the words you can say part of the time.

It's the same word, but it's only a part -time dirty word.

And 50%, it's okay depending on what you meant. So I figured, looking for a

list. I started running into all the categories of dirty words.

Started to realize there are more ways to describe filthy words than there are

filthy words.

Seemed curious to me.

Someone was awfully interested in them.

They found an awful lot of ways to refer to them. And I did too. Called them bad

language.

Dirty.

Filthy.

Foul.

Vile.

Vulgar.

Course. Unseemly, in poor taste, street language, locker room talk, gutter talk,

barracks language, naughty, saucy, bawdy, raunchy, rude,

lewd, lascivious, indecent, profane, obscene, blue, off -color,

risque, suggestive.

Cursing, cussing, swearing. All I could think of was shit, piss, fuck, cunt,

cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits, man.

Seven.

And it wasn't complete. I mean, the list wasn't complete. But it was the initial

list. That first evening. Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker,

tits. And I knew I had ones that could never be said because they didn't mean

anything else. There are some words you can say part of the time. I'm talking

about an ass -kicking. Ass is a word that's hardly even a curse word anymore,

but it still is in a little way.

I mean, most of the time, ass is all right. On television, you can say, well,

you've made a perfect ass of yourself tonight.

But you can't say, you have ass.

Only perfect ass is allowed.

You can use ass in the religious sense.

If you happen to be the Redeemer, riding into town on one, perfectly all right.

But don't get off and say, you know, the donkey hurt my ass.

Sometimes.

That's the way it is. Bitch. Another word. Another animal word, too. Bitch.

Bitch is all right on television if you happen to be the lady from the San Diego

Zoo.

Brought a bunch of little canines up to Johnny Carson. This one's a bitch.

That's cool.

Don't refer to the singer that way.

Is that bitch going to do another number?

Animals are fine on TV. It's all right. I like to tell a story about a cock and

a pussy and a beaver and a bitch and an ass.

Get him out of here.

Get him out of here.

Get him out.

Tits, of course, doesn't belong on a list like that. You know, tits.

Tits, you know.

Too cheerful. Nothing harmful. You know, no threat from that word. Tits.

Tit. Tit is a cute little word. Tit.

Sure. Any word I think that's spelled the same frontwards and backwards is

as hell.

I think Otto is a great name. Always like, here comes fucking Otto.

We don't know if he's coming or going because he's fucking Otto. You know.

I also like Otto because Otto is toot inside out.

But tit, cute word. Come on, tits. Can't say tits. You can say boobs.

You can say boobs.

Boobs starts in the same letter, boob.

Like tit? No?

You can say it. Tits, no good. Can't say tits. Boobs.

In fact, boobs is an answer on Match Game.

I had boobs, Gene. Boobs, $200. Holy shit.

Can't say tits. Nice tits on the singer, huh, Ed?

But you can go like this. Hey, she's really built.

You can't say, you can say teats.

Teats is okay if you're on at five in the morning and a cow is your guest.

But you can't say jugs, you know.

Well, you got to pull the cow's knockers, Dan.

Now.

Tits also says, you know, well, it sounds to me like a snack anyway.

sound so? Give me that Nabisco, new Nabisco double wrapped tits, man.

Pass the tits, would you, Dean?

Say, these things are responding.

for while I'm watching TV tonight.

Now, we've added, three

words have been added. There was only one official induction.

One group of three words was added.

There was no balloting this year, as many of you know.

Right, and some of you have supported some of the words that were in line to

on the list and haven't made it. I say, you know, just hang in there.

Fart, turd, and twat, of course, have.

Fart, turd, and twat all belong because they don't mean anything else.

They mean that only, and you can't say them on TV.

Now, fart, again, like tit in a way, you know, cute kind of word.

Farts, you know, cute little fart. Hey, man, kids know farts are fun, you know?

Kids know farts are shit without the mess, right?

Same funny sound, same vile smell, kids.

No fuss, no muss.

Remember when you were a kid one time, maybe with short pants on, sitting in

church on a wooden bench?

And you had to do the one -cheeked sneak?

Right in tune with the organ.

That's why they call those pews. I found that out, man.

Farts are, uh... Hey.

Farts keep us in our place. Well, actually, they disperse us many times.

But they do. They keep you in your place. They keep you humble. They remind

who you are. That's right, Dr.

Goddard. Well, the initial series of Mariner flights, of course, all the

landings, the complete circumnavigation of the map, the complete global map, the

running of the entire series on Mars with the Mariner.

Come over here. Why don't you come over here?

Then we'll be going to Jupiter right after that.

This man still has exhaust of his own.

Did you ever notice that your own farts smell okay?

Say, that's fairly decent.

I think I'll stay home today.

Do some reading in the closet.

Not only do you not mention the word fart, you never refer to farts.

They're more secret and worse than fucking.

No fart mentions, no references to fart. You'd never see a fart reference. You'd

think by now, after 20 or 30 years of television, that some guy once would

gone, whoo.

Hasn't happened.

There has never been a fart as far as they're concerned.

They don't exist. We do not recognize them.

Just once I want to see somebody on the Johnny Carson panel, you know.

Hey, Ed, move down, man.

Fucking Ed. Fucking Ed, let go.

Give me the lighter, Johnny.

Ed, if you're sick, man, see the nurse, will you?

Something died inside of Ed.

Jeez, Ed, it ain't the smell, you know.

It's the burning of my eyes!

I've

often

tried to think what it might be like to have never farted and suddenly had that

happen in your 30s maybe. I just had never farted before and one day the

inevitable, man.

Air is

coming out of me.

I don't want to be a balloon.

Man, if it happened to me,

I'd probably use it to try to get out of work, you know.

Wouldn't you?

Yeah, that's right, boss. I won't be in today.

Well, air is coming out of my ass.

That's right.

No, air, not hair, air.

Air. That's right.

Well, I don't know. I think I might have picked it up from the dog.

Yeah.

Shit is fucking toxic, a motherfucker tits fart, turd, twat.

Turd, you can't say turd on TV, but who wants to?

I don't care if I ever hear that one again.

And twat, twat is on the list because it doesn't mean anything else, you know.

No saving meaning. Twat's twat. That's right in the twat. Right in the twat. No

mistaking that.

Yes, twat doesn't have any other meanings. It's not like prick.

Prick. You can say prick on television. If it happens to your finger, it's all

right. You can prick your finger. Just don't finger your prick. That's all.

Now, in line with those kinds of words, words that are dirty sometimes and not

dirty sometimes, those are the ones that got you in trouble as a kid because you

noticed that they had two meanings and you began to make a little pun or a joke

and you got caught with it. And it was dirty mind.

And it's not a dirty mind. It's a little joke, you know. But that's true. The

word ball is the two -way word, the non -end curse variety of ball that is the

most prevalent in that kind of situation.

And boy, it comes up more often in real life to make it a double meaning.

Ball is, well, every sport is played with a ball, right?

Except hockey, and that rhymes with fuck anyway.

Take your comfort where you find it.

No, the word ball is, you know, a part of your life as a kid, man. It's one of

the early toys, right, man? It's go play with your ball. What?

You sure? Right, yes.

That was confusing.

Ball. Ball has three meanings now. Of course, ball also means to fuck, to get

laid, to ball, to have ball, to have been bowling.

Actually, it always meant that. We just didn't know, you know.

Now we know that. Of course, when I was a kid, ball only meant either testicle

or small round object you play with.

Right?

That's all. Just those two.

And it's all right for Kurt Gowdy to say it.

All across the nation, Johnny Bench has two balls on him.

Fine, no problem there at all. The whole country nods in agreement. Right.

Shit, I figured him for two, you know. Hell yeah.

Hell yeah. That whole team, I think. Well, he cannot, however, although he

say that, turn to his sidekick, Tony Kubik, and say, Tony, I think he hurt

balls on that play.

He's holding them by God.

Well, that's true, Kurt. Generally, when they hurt their balls, they hold them.

He's holding his. He's hurt his balls.

Thank you, Tony. This team has been plagued with ball injuries this spring.

Johnson pulled a ball the other day.

Jameson has a sprung ball.

Nicholas woke up with a tight ball this morning.

Williams has a twisted ball from last week. Never hear about those injuries.

They call them groin injuries.

It's a groin injury.

I never knew where my groin was when I was a kid.

Did you? Where the hell's my groin? Is it dirty? Do you cover it up? Put your

groin away. Wow.

Where does my groin end and my loin begin?

I know I have them both. I just don't have any dotted lines like a cow

Where the hell are they? Just tell me what to cover. I don't mind.

Ah, groin.

They pull their groin muscles.

If I pulled my groin muscle, they'd have my ass out of the stadium in no time.

These guys sitting around big stars pulling their groin muscles on the

Well, anyway, there is an overlapping. There's a confusion about sex and

violence. Some folks don't know where one ends and the other begins. Sex and

violence. Sex and violence.

A lot of people running around trying to stamp it out like it's all one thing.

What are you doing? Trying to stamp out sex and violence.

Thought to the F, N to the E.

There's an overlapping. There's a gray area that some folks don't understand.

Even folks who like those things together.

Think of them as one, sex and violence. Some people like, as you know, violence

with their sex. I don't care for that myself. I like my violence a little

earlier in the afternoon.

But it's true that there's a confusing area. I mean, even a little child might

make a mistake when he's too young wandering into the bedroom.

Oh, Daddy's winning!

It has the look of competition.

So it got confusing enough to people that someone finally had to sort it out

said, Make love, not war.

Get it?

We said, huh?

Make love, not war?

A guy finally sorted it out. Probably a lady. It sounds more like a lady's

thing. I don't know why. Make love, not war?

Why must there always be killing?

That was it. Shit, if I had thought of that phrase, make love, not war, I would

have retired that day if I thought of that.

Wouldn't you? I wouldn't expect to be able to top myself later in life.

That would be it. Go out with a biggie. I think I'd, you know, just leave my car

at the red light, man.

That's it. I'm going to the beach.

You guys got it. Make love, not war. See you later.

Be gone. Well, I have a little phrase of my own.

Make fuck, not kill.

It's not as graceful a phrase, I know.

But I'm not looking to retire at this time.

Make fuck, not kill.

Deals with just what we call those things, not what they are. Let the

and behavior folks work on those what they are.

I just like what we call them, fucking and killing.

And you got fucking and killing. I say, let's change the words around.

If language is our servant, let's put this one bitch to work.

Let's call fucking killing and killing fucking for about a month and a half.

Just long enough to confuse us a little about which one we really fear and want,

all right?

Fucking and killing, just anywhere you see them.

Movies? The movies would be great.

Better get down off the horse, Sheriff.

We're fixing to fuck you now.

What's this?

Mass fucker still on the loose?

Man fucks three, self.

No, I think we got him now.

He made his first big mistake.

He fucked a cop.

Yeah, he's a cop fucker now.

Every cop in the state will be looking for him.

Okay, thank you, Dan.

Guys, my horse broke his leg. I'm going to fuck him. I'll be right back. Excuse

me.

Shamu the fucker whale.

So all I'm saying, I guess, really, is that fuck you is a positive phrase.

It's just a way of making...

you know, direct verbal love from across the street. Next time you hear it, feel

that way. Fuck you. Okay.

Thanks for being here tonight and being part of this. I hope we all get to see

it. I love you. Fuck you. See you later. Bye -bye.

Okay, huh?

I feel silly now, right?

Jack,

how are you?

Hello there, folks at home.

Well, welcome to our place. You know, sometimes a girl comes in and leaves

things. If you want something, just have it.

That's a nice chair you have over there.

I'm sorry. I just feel silly. I'm off now. See you.

I got a lady who likes to eat. Oh, yeah. Let me see. You know this lady?

How you doing, baby?