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Carlin got his laughs, yes. But does "greatest of all time" exist for comics? Humor varies greatly across the ages and the places. "Greatest post-WW2 American comic" might characterize George better. Of course, that makes the whole thing sound provincial. (Which was my point, anyway.)
 
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Xenophon said:
Carlin got his laughs, yes. But does "greatest of all time" exist for comics? Humor varies greatly across the ages and the places. "Greatest post-WW2 American comic" might characterize George better. Of course, that makes the whole thing sound provincial. (Which was my point, anyway.)
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The best comedians I've ever seen have been local ones, and recent - weird, strange acts that will never get a Netflix special and are never rehashing old ideas. I don't mean that the greatest comic happens to be in my city, I mean that the greatest comics in the world will never get an audience outside their hometown (plus a small, rabid following at MICF [Melbourne International Comedy Festival], Edinburgh Fringe, and Montreal).

So you will never see the greatest comic in my city, and I will never see the greatest comic in your city, but they're both miles better than anything that gets more popular than that, because they're targeting a niche audience instead of going broad. (Unfortunately, to find these astonishingly good comics, we have to be willing to see a bunch of local comics we've never heard of, which means sitting through some truly abysmal comedy.)
 
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The gods bless you. In most online forums I've frequented not kissing Georgie C's nether orifice gets treated like sneering "Mohammed (SAWS) sucked eggs"* in downtown Mecca during Ramadan.

*remark made for illustrative purposes only and does not necessarily reflect the views of Wizard Forums, its staff, or management, and the OP.
 
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