What would it do to my witness? How many numerous people would stumble from my reading of your bio? Oh Dear!Īs I waited for you backstage to check the introduction, I watched you pace back and forth in the makeshift dressing room the university provided.
Unbeknownst to you, I was being hounded at the time for being a professed Christian and agreeeing to introduce that "foul-mouthed" comic. You didn't know it at the time, but I was a DJ too.funny. I received your bio the night of your performance and was floored to see how young you were when you began as a Disc Jockey. I had seen you in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure as well as Dogma. I remember listening to your records or at least hearing them coming from my dad's record player as a kid. I was asked by the Student Government to introduce you to the student body for a night of comedy that the students as well as the farmers of that community would never forget. It was in a small farm town 45 minutes west of Oklahoma City in Weatherford on the campus of SWOSU. I only had the opportunity to meet you once. Todd Leopold, CNN.com Entertainment Producer “Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.”
“ Baseball has the seventh-inning stretch. Continued mostly dark tonight, followed by widely scattered light in the morning.” Like many fans, I find myself thinking of my favorite Carlin routines today. ( iReport: Share your thoughts on George Carlin) Though I don’t know that a lapsed Catholic realist like Carlin would have used that word. He was modest about his own accomplishments, and saved his harshest (and most hilarious) words for two of his favorite targets, politics and religion. I didn’t want to end up on the end of his skewer.īut the Carlin I met was everything I’d hoped for - relaxed, friendly, thoughtful, humane. At one point in his show he poked fun at the name “Todd” (an easy name to make fun of, let me tell you). In Vegas, Carlin was at his best - which meant carving sacred cows into so much finely sliced meat. So I was intimidated, to say the least, that day in late 2004 when he came by CNN Center for an interview. When my wife and I went to Las Vegas in 2002, the one show we took in was Carlin’s. I was the kind of kid who repeated Carlin lines and routines to my friends (and received more Carlin lines and routines in return). And they didn’t come much bigger, for me, than George Carlin. One of the great joys of this job is that you occasionally get to meet your heroes.
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