Whether you’re hardcore into comedy or just into entertaining, you need to know how to make people laugh.
I’ve dispensed plenty of comedy advice in these posts and elsewhere. Today I summon another expert, George Carlin, who conducted a master class on comedy, available online through Apple Music and Spotify. You can also find the CD on Amazon and Ebay.
It’s an album called George Carlin On Comedy, part of a series of recordings released by laugh.com, a website launched with a grand plan to harness experts (Carlin included) to teach the art and craft of comedy. Comedian, writer, and comedy scholar Larry Wilde, proprietor of the website, conducts the interview.
On the album, Carlin muses about his career, his specific writing and performing methods, the healing power of laughter, and how he developed his sense of humor. He gets deep into the weeds and shares tons of wisdom.
If Carlin had survived long enough to be on my How to Write Funny podcast, this is what the interview would have sounded like.
Check it out!
Thanks so much will definitely check out. Also, WP just published interesting piece on Kevin Hart: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2024/03/21/is-kevin-hart-funny-twain-prize-kennedy-center/
I’ve listened to a bunch of the interviews in that series, and Carlin’s was perhaps the most detailed and thorough of all of the ones I heard. There are many comics I prefer, taste wise, but I doubt any comic has more extensive knowledge and analytical understanding than Carlin, or a joke output that touches on more subjects.