# George Carlin's "You Are All Diseased"... 20+ years on **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comedian-jokes\ **Created:** [December 9, 2021, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-carlins-you-are-all-diseased-20-years-on/955743 "2021-12-09T00:07:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-carlins-you-are-all-diseased-20-years-on/955743/1 "2021-12-09T00:07:49Z")
Last week I watched George Carlin do stand-up for the first time. “You Are All Diseased”. I can tell he’s a funny guy, and many of the bits are hilarious. I liked the 90’s pop-culture puns, the advertising song, the hover-parents part, and the religion segment. But it really took me back how much didn’t age well. The airline security he whines about - in 1999 - is _nothing_ compared to what we have today. And being thrilled with terrorism, even in a comedy routine, just rubs me wrong. Maybe because I grew up _after_ 9/11. I assume terrorism jokes are to me like Nazi jokes would be to someone of that generation. “Hitler/Osama had balls” is meh, “setting off a bomb in a marketplace and killing hundreds of people I find exciting and stimulating” is unfunny. ETA: disproven ~~The ‘get real about terrorism’, ‘it’s not going to happen to you’ bit. I was actually a little curious and tallied the total number of people who have died or been injured in terrorist attacks, per [this list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States), since I was born. The total I got is 9,945 people over 25 years, including 9/11. Times three for a rough life expectancy of 75 years, (The cynic in me expects to see another 9/11 attack, or two, in my lifetime,) divided by 3,250,000 for U.S. pop, and I get a very poorly estimated figure where _nearly one in a hundred Americans will be injured or killed in a terrorist attack_. Compare with roughly a little over one in a hundred Americans who will die in a car crash.~~ The fear of germs and fuck-immunizations segment also fell flat on me, even satire on that subject has lost its humor what with the anti-vax movement and over 790,000 Americans dead from disease in the span of two years (compare ~420,000 total U.S. dead from WWII). Some of the other things, cigars for example, or shock-value of the words “fuck” or “cocksucker”, just don’t apply any more. So overall, I thought it was a mixed bag. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-carlins-you-are-all-diseased-20-years-on/955743/2 "2021-12-09T00:11:49Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > The total I got is 9,945 people over 25 years, including 9/11. Times three for a rough life expectancy of 75 years, (The cynic in me expects to see another 9/11, or two, in my lifetime,) divided by 3,250,000 for U.S. pop, and I get a very poorly estimated figure where _nearly one in a hundred Americans will be injured or killed in a terrorist attack_ . Compare with roughly a little over one in a hundred Americans who will die in a car crash. Your math is off by two orders of magnitude, because [the current U.S. population is 333.8 million](https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/). If there were, indeed, ~30,000 Americans killed in terrorist attacks over the course of 75 years, that’d work out to 1 in every 11,127 Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-carlins-you-are-all-diseased-20-years-on/955743/3 "2021-12-09T00:13:04Z")
Forgot the zero, that’s a relief. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-carlins-you-are-all-diseased-20-years-on/955743/4 "2021-12-09T00:14:03Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > Forgot the zero, that’s a relief. Two zeros, actually. 🙂