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"Let’s use capital punishment the same way we use sports and television in this country, to distract people and take their minds off how bad they’re being fucked by the upper 1 percent,” George Carlin joked in 1996. His daughter @kellycarlin.bsky.social says that's what we're living through now.

playboy.comGeorge Carlin Saw a Future With Televised Executions, Daughter SaysWhen George Carlin stepped to the microphone at New York’s Beacon Theatre on March 30, 1996, the comedian wondered what it would look like if the death penalty was marketed as a televised sport. His a...

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“He takes a premise and takes it to the absolute most absurd version of it, to the point where it’s so absurd that it’s unbelievable or not even possible,” @kellycarlin.bsky.social, a writer and radio personality, says of her father. “His level of absurdity in 1996 is what we are living through."

playboy.comGeorge Carlin Saw a Future With Televised Executions, Daughter SaysWhen George Carlin stepped to the microphone at New York’s Beacon Theatre on March 30, 1996, the comedian wondered what it would look like if the death penalty was marketed as a televised sport. His a...