At the Paradiso, Amsterdam; April 24, 1995
Stage banter
“Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?”
Archive of American Television http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/george-carlin, from one of Carlin's final interviews (2008)
Interviews, Television Appearances
Context: You know what, I said it this way: when you're born in this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks. And I'm a notebook kind of guy: [pretends to be taking notes] "Oh, my God, did you see that? Did you see what he just did?..." And I watch the freak show, and I kept my notes, and I make up stuff about it, and I talk about the freaks. And the freaks are all humans, and they are all like me, and we are all the same. I'm not better, I'm not different, I'm just apart now. I'm separate, I'm over here, because I put myself out of the mix. I don't have a stake at the outcome. I'm not a cheerleader for a given outcome now.
“Jake, why are you sitting in the front? I thought you liked it in the rear.”
On stage comment to Jake Gyllenhaal, who has been recently nominated for an Oscar for Brokeback Mountain, at the ESPY Awards (16 July 2006)
Interview in the PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996)
1990s
My World (2009 Album), One Time
“I think I know what you did last night. If you send me a thousand dollars, I won't tell your wife.”
Jesus Camp http://www.torontoist.com/archives/2007/01/at_five_i_got_s_1.php, retrieve January 12, 2007.
“I know you're not a stupid person, so why would you ask such a stunningly stupid question?”
Source: Novels, Squeeze Me (2020), Chapter 28
