Wednesday, February 04, 2009
| GEORGE CARLIN (to Jon Stewart): "Don't forget what we do is oratory. It's rhetoric. It's not just comedy; it's a form of rhetoric. And with rhetoric, you listen for rhythms. You look for ways to sing at the same time you're talking." "... It's just natural! My grandfather, whom I never knew... ...was a policeman in New York at the turn of the century, and he was an uneducated man, self-educated, and he... ...in the course of his adult life he wrote out the works of Shakespeare... by hand, because of the joy it gave him! JON STEWART: That's an obsessive young man! Yeah! And almost everything is genetic, and my mother cared a lot about language, and my father was a... ...champion public speaker of 1935, he won the mahogany gabble... ...over 800 other public speakers from the Dale-Carnegie Public Speaking Institute... ...and he was great, I never knew him either! |
Labels: RHETORIC
