December, 2007 interview excerpt with George Carlin, conducted by WFMU's onetime-Special Events Coordinator Jenni Matz, now entrenched over at the Archive of American Television (and politely putting up my weekly pesterings to find me Julia Child clips). Includes some heartfelt advice for young up-and-coming comics, as well as George putting his legendary life into an overall frame. Kudos to Jenni, who seems to have made out much better synching up with and getting candid commentary out of comics than this unfortunate fellow.
What a great interview! George obviously enjoyed it and appreciated the intelligent questions. And what a great ending--Carlin quoting Casals: "I'm beginning to notice some improvement." Imagine if all artists had that level of perception and humility.
Posted by: SillyWilly | July 25, 2008 at 07:05 PM
That unfortunate fellow is Jim Ferguson, local Tucson school teacher and movie reviewer/press-junket mutant. If you ever see his name next to a blurb on a DVD cover, skip it, he never met a turd he didn't lavish praise on. Still, you gotta feel for the guy, he's trying to get even five seconds of interview he can use but Richard's having none of it. In Pryor's autobiography (great book) he says that during the filming of Stir Crazy he holed up in a Tucson foothills home and freebased whenever he wasn't on set. This had to have been filmed around that time.
Posted by: Sean Murphy | July 25, 2008 at 07:10 PM