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George Carlin Poster BW Standup Act
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Other monologues included his thoughts on religion and baseball vs. football. He didn’t participate in any of the sketches.
He was in his late 20s when Alfred Hitchcock threw his 1964 Christmas blue food party. I don’t think he was on the guest list, but how cool would it have been if he'd been there??
Now we know. He and Hitchcock were kindred spirits. They were two creative and colorful men who happened to share a single culinary question.
Every so often their hands would wring.
Seems they were troubled by just one thing.
They’d open the fridge, shake their fists and say,
"Where’s the blue food?!"
Seems they were troubled by just one thing.
They’d open the fridge, shake their fists and say,
"Where’s the blue food?!"
Where is the blue food?? (a portion)
I couldn't find a full version of his Blue Food routine on YouTube. In the early 1960s, Carlin had been part of a double act with comedian/actor Jack Burns. The pair produced an album, Burns and Carlin at the Playboy Club Tonight
available on MP3. You may be able to find it on its original vinyl. This wasn't his only album, Carlin won more than one Grammy Award as well as receiving The American Comedy Awards' Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
By 1964/1965 Carlin was on his way up. Burns you may recall played Deputy Warren Ferguson on The Andy Griffith Show in the mid-1960s. Carlin, too was making TV appearances.
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Baseball vs Football, George Carlin compares the two
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Related page of interest:
The Blue food dinner party the joke so nice Hitchcock played it twice
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