By George! (Letters).Matt Cooper's piece ("Rebels With Applause," April) was a breath of fresh air content-wise for the Monthly, one of my favorite My Favorite is an independent synthpop band from Long Island, New York. They released two CDs: Love at Absolute Zero and Happiest Days of Our Lives. My Favorite broke up on September 14, 2005, when singer Andrea Vaughn left the band. magazines. However, he left out the great George Carlin car·line or car·lin n. Scots A woman, especially an old one. [Middle English kerling, from Old Norse, from karl, man.] , perhaps America's most edge-cutting, subversive standup comedian Noun 1. standup comedian - a comedian who uses gags gagman comedian, comic - a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts . Carlin was busted with Lenny Bruce in London; became the hippy dippy dip·py adj. dip·pi·er, dip·pi·est Slang Not sensible; foolish. [Origin unknown.] weatherman on "The Smothers Brothers"; and went on to mock every aspect of American culture in a very consistently subversive way. Ditto for Richard Pryor, who also was not mentioned but is undoubtedly also one of America's greatest, most subversive comics. Leon Harris of CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. recently reported about Carlin explaining how ridiculous it is to believe in a Christian "Sky God" while mocking various alien hypotheses when, Carlin suggested, the alien intervention hypothesis was much more credible scientifically. Harris looked absolutely stunned when the camera came back to him; his puzzled and shocked expression was priceless. That's subversive! JOHN JENKINS via email |
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