#237 George Carlin's American Dream w/ Michael Bonfiglio & Kliph Nesteroff
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
George Carlin had a comedy career that spanned half a century, and his take on the US remains relevant more than a decade after his death in 2008. The new HBO documentary George Carlin's American Dream tells Carlin's story as he evolved from a clean-cut comic in the 1950s into the edgy critic who remains one of the most influential comedians of all time. In this episode, Michael Bonfiglio, who directed the film (along with Judd Apatow) and Kliph Nesteroff, a historian of comedy who is featured in the film, join Bob & Ben for a conversation about the life and times of George Carlin.
If you enjoy this episode, check out our previous conversation w/ Michael in episode #174 Direction w/ Michael Bonfiglio.
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
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| 0:00.0 | I enjoy a good round of golf. |
| 0:07.0 | My grandfather was a great golfer, but it never caught on with me when I was a child. |
| 0:11.0 | So I picked up the sport a few years ago. |
| 0:13.0 | I threw my clubs in the bus, and I play as often as I can when I'm out on tour. |
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| 0:43.8 | It reminds me of the shirts my grandfather used to wear. |
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| 1:04.5 | going to dig these shirts. I'm Ben Sawyer. I'm Bob Crawford. And this is the road to now. |
| 1:13.5 | I got to say, I'm pretty excited about this episode. |
| 1:16.8 | Bob worked this out without me having to suddenly tell him that this is definitely what I wanted to record. |
| 1:21.3 | He was like, do you want to record an episode with Mike Montfiglio on the George Carlin documentary? |
| 1:26.4 | And I was like, well, I may have already just randomly written Mike on Twitter and been like, I am the most excited about this of anything that's coming out. It's giving me hope in the world. So yes. So our guest today, not only do we have co-director of this great new HBO documentary, Michael Bonfiglio. We also have in here a historian of comedy, Cliff Nesteroff. |
| 1:45.4 | Guys, welcome to The Roads Now. Thank you. Thank you. Hi. |
| 1:48.9 | So, Mike, I guess the simplest question that I was thinking about watching the documentary was, |
| 1:55.9 | why George Carlin and why now? How did this come on your radar? |
| 2:00.8 | Well, I was brought into it by Judd Apatow, who was approached by HBO, who, you know, |
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