Comedy - George Carlin - Take-Offs And Put-Ons [1967] V2 torrent

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George Carlin - Take-Offs & Put-Ons
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Artist...............: George Carlin
Album................: Take-Offs & Put-Ons
Genre................: Comedy
Year.................: 1997
Codec................: LAME 3.98
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Extreme, (avg. bitrate: 211kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v2.3
Information..........: http://www.discogs.com/George-Carlin-Take-Offs-And-Put-Ons/release/4240125
Included.............: NFO

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Tracklisting
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1. George Carlin - Wonderful WINO (Top-40 Disc Jockey) [05:51]
2. George Carlin - Commercials [08:20]
3. George Carlin - Daytime Television [09:37]
4. George Carlin - The Newscast [07:36]
5. George Carlin - The Indian Sergeant [05:14]

Playing Time.........: 36:39
Total Size...........: 55.80 MB

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George Carlin's debut comedy album captures him during the tail end of his
period as a "straight" (i.e., short-haired) comedian (a period in which he also
played a short-lived role on the series That Girl), and not that far from his
subsequent counterculture emergence. Apart from the soap opera parody
Doctor Place in the "Daytime Television" monologue, which seems slow and
terribly dated, and "The Indian Sergeant" (which is in a category by itself),
any part of this record could have fit onto his subsequent FM & AM. He rips
apart television commercials, AM radio, hippies, rock music, and other media
targets with the speed and spread pattern of a Gatling gun and the precision
of a surgeon, and it's a statement about the nature of our popular culture
that a lot of the humor here holds up better, 30 years on, than some of
Carlin's more iconoclastic work of the 1970s -- some of the momentary lapses
into gay stereotypes (i.e., Wendell the Witch) seem dated, though they were
on target at the time (almost openly gay Paul Lynde was a fixture throughout
the '60s and '70s on commercials and in series like Bewitched and The
Hollywood Squares). "The Indian Sergeant" is an inspired variation on military
humor that seems to be a direct offshoot of Carlin's stint in the army, and
plays brilliantly in that spirit. Oddly enough, this routine has Carlin sounding a lot like his one-time partner Jack Burns, and all quite different from most of
the rest of this record. Most of it is amazingly fresh, as entertaining as
Carlin's best work from the '70s, and all of it is a lot more accessible, if not as challenging or groundbreaking.