The director returns to The Last Laugh podcast to talk about his new Netflix movie “The Bubble,” an upcoming George Carlin documentary, and the state of stand-up
, or wherever you get your podcasts, and be the first to hear new episodes when they are released every Tuesday.I want to talk about your upcoming George Carlin documentary, which I’m very much looking forward to. I really loved your. Are there things that you learned working on that one that you are now applying to this new one about Carlin?
It does seem like he was very ahead of his time politically, and his old bits still go viral regularly. Do you have any insight into how he was able to do that or why he was so ahead of things?I think he just spoke very difficult truths way back, starting in the late ’60s. He talked about Big Pharma back then, how it’s OK to buy all these drugs at the drugstore, but you couldn’t smoke pot. He had a really funny bit about diet pills, which were basically speed, but you can’t smoke a joint.
Well, he certainly was a free speech absolutist. He always said that less speech is what’s more dangerous. But he wasn’t around for Facebook. He wasn’t around for algorithms and all of the ways that it trains people and hypnotizes people and turns people into a cult. So we don’t really know what his opinion would be about communication right now. His daughter Kelly said, “Whatever you think his opinion would be, you’re probably wrong. And what it would be would blow your mind.
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