{"id":22773,"date":"2019-07-24T00:02:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T05:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=22773"},"modified":"2019-07-23T22:14:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T03:14:26","slug":"words-euphemisms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=22773","title":{"rendered":"Words &#038; Euphemisms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This may very well be the greatest piece of stand-up comedy<br>ever performed by the best stand-up comedian that ever lived.<br>I am admittedly a bit biased on the subject, I&#8217;ve been collecting<br>comedy for well over fifty years and I am very much the fan.<br>Combine that with the fact that I&#8217;ve been an unabashed Carlin<br>lover since I first picked up his Class Clown album way back when<br>and you have my adamant, and unapologetic, opinion on the matter.<br>So there!<br>It&#8217;s humorous, revealing, and quite powerful.<br>George refined his material over the years if he thought he could<br>make it better, not something most comedians ever do.<br>He had many qualities that set him apart from the rest.<br>I play this piece once year, it&#8217;s a one of a kind slice of genius.<br>THIS is true stand-up, he&#8217;s not rambling, he KNOWS what<br>he wants to say and he performs it like the well written bit<br>that it is.<br>From the 1990 special &#8220;Doing it Again&#8221;, a true classic&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"George Carlin - Euphemisms\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vuEQixrBKCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may very well be the greatest piece of stand-up comedyever performed by the best stand-up comedian that ever lived.I am admittedly a bit biased on the subject, I&#8217;ve been collectingcomedy for well over fifty years and I am very much the fan.Combine that with the fact that I&#8217;ve been an unabashed Carlinlover since I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22774,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773\/revisions\/22774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}