The only reason this has really caught my attention is because we have been watching a lot of episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine narrated by him the past couple of weeks. (He is better then Ringo Starr or Alec Baldwin … though Baldwin isn’t really bad, just not as good.) Marcia got a couple of collection for Nigel this weekend and made a point of getting at least one that was done by Carlin. Strange how things like that happen.
Over a month ago we had been watching another train video with Nigel and there was a folk song at the end of one of them that had been growing on me. I looked the song up only to find out that the songwriter had died the week before.
I can’t say I was a huge fan of Carlin, but always did enjoy his work. It was more cerebral/intelligent (in my opinion) then the average comedian. Here is one of my favorite bits that Carlin did, talking about the differences between baseball and football.
And just for the heck of it, here is a clip of Carlin narrating a story from the Thomas and Friends show.
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
LOVE baseball and football,. Would have linked to it myself if I had been awake.