The Right’s Long, Misguided Attempt to Claim Comedy’s Greatest Iconoclast for Themselves

Photo: George Carlin. George Carlin Estate / HBO. Article by Jason Bailey. Slate – May 20, 2022.

George Carlin’s anti-authoritarian polemics go viral across the political spectrum, but where did he really stand?

When the draft opinion for the Supreme Court’s upcoming reversal of Roe v Wade leaked last week, an unsurprising thing happened: people started sharing an old but prescient George Carlin routine. The clip, which comes from his 1996 HBO special Back in Town […]

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