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martedì 22 giugno 2010

Ciao George

Sono già due anni...





[dall'ultima intervista]

You talked about how comedy's all about incongruities, contrasts, exaggeration. Do you think about those techniques or those principles of humor consciously?

It happens automatically. Sometimes there’s a conscious heightening, you'll recognize you've just chosen an image to make a point. Then your mind will just suddenly throw something at you that's stronger—a heightening, to raise the stakes, a stronger word, a more visceral image, something that lights up the imagination, much better than the original thought. So you’re aware that you’re heightening and exaggerating further but you don't use the word exaggeration or anything like that. All that stuff is just happening. And sometimes, afterward, I’ll look at something and say, “If I were giving a comedy lecture, that would be a good example.” I often think in those terms.

[ITA]
Hai detto che la comicità è fatta di incoerenze, contrasti, esagerazione. Pensi a certe tecniche o leggi della comicità consapevolmente?

Succede naturalmente. A volte si tratta di un’illuminazione cosciente: ti accorgi che hai scelto un’immagine per forza di cose. Poi la tua mente ti mostra improvvisamente qualcosa che è molto più forte: alza il tiro, come dire. Magari una parola più precisa, un’immagine più viscerale, qualcosa che illumina l’immaginazione, qualcosa di molto migliore della prima cosa a cui avevi pensato. In un certo senso sai bene che stai forzando la cosa, ma non la definisci in questo modo. E’ che succede. A volte mi capita di pensare ad una cosa in questa maniera e mi dico “Se tenessi una lezione sulla comicità, questo sarebbe l’esempio perfetto”. Penso spesso in questo modo.

domenica 28 marzo 2010

George Carlin about politicians and voting


"Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.'"

"I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, 'If you don't vote, you have no right to complain,' but where's the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote -- who did not even leave the house on Election Day -- am in no way responsible for that these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created."

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