I never saw this in its time, yet here we are in 2019 and pretty much everything George said still applies, except it's not the time of Reagan, it's the time of Trump. I can't help wonder how he'd feel about his country now if he were still alive to see the state of it. Would he even be able to find any humour in it anymore? What would he think if he could see that it's not just the time of Reagan repeating itself, but the time of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini beginning to rear its ugly head again and that so many Americans helped to bring it on, shamelessly revealing their true
Fascist and hateful natures? He had seemingly become so angry and fed up by the time he died, having lost his wife to cancer and fighting it himself. I didn't like the direction his comedy took the last few years of his life...it didn't make me laugh much at all because it was too dark. But this...it was still part of the good times, when I found humour in everything he said, even if he was turning political and in spite of the fact that it was 31 years ago, it's still relevant, even today. I was really surprised by that. It was one of several of George Carlin's I chose to watch on Prime and the first one I decided to watch this last weekend in June 2019, so it really amazed me that aside from the fact that he was talking about Reagan and other things from the past, it could just as easily be about the times we're living in now, except back then, people were so much more optimistic and now, we can't afford to be.
