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Monday, Jun. 23, 2008 - 8:30 p.m.
Lease and I saw him perform here in the one time he made it Mohall- I think it was the early 1990's. Before he became so damn cynical, he was still spending most of his routine working oddities of the English language into bits, along with his "stuff you pack" and "baseball vs. football" bits. After his wife passed away from cancer in the late 1990's, his comedy took a much darker turn. He was far more bitter and more agnostic, which turned many people off (including Lease) I still got what he was doing, and found that I agreed with him far more often than not. And now he's gone. But that's not all... A couple of really odd things happened involving George and myself today (stick with me- you'll see what I mean ;-) When I woke up this morning, I didn't know about his passing. I went over to my dressing area in the bedroom and noticed that we hadn't put anything there but my jeans. I grabbed some underwear from the chest of drawers, and then grabbed a random t-shirt from my closet. The front of the t-shirt read "Sarcasm is just one of my talents". Spooky, huh? No comedian was ever more sarcastic the George. My sarcastic sense of humor is probably rooted in all the times I have watched and listened to his material. Forget probably- I know it is. And then... I was reading the Chicago Tribune editorial pages at lunchtime, and in the usual cartoon space was a one-panel that read "The new 7 words you can't say in America", with a drawing of crusty old George saying "Americans are using too @*&% much oil", (or something to that effect) with a bunch of people recoiling in shock, car keys in their hands, in the background . No way this cartoon gets printed tomorrow, but the paper had already gone to print before the news of his death had been released. For someone who constantly professed that he didn't believe in God or an afterlife? Pretty freaky (IMHO). No, he would just say it was a fucking coincidence, and nothing more....
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