It's been a while since I featured a clip here of George Carl. Mr. Carl, who passed away in 2000, was an internationally-famous clown who toured the world with an act that, as you can see, could be totally understood in any language. I got to see him perform in Las Vegas in the early nineties. He was at the Stardust in a show that otherwise was filled with almost-naked women and one glistening bronze male acrobat. Carl did about twenty minutes of pretty much the same thing you'll see in this video only more of it. The audience seemed skeptical for about the first minute or so — what the hell was this on stage displacing the almost-naked women? — but within minutes, they were howling and at the end, we were all standing and asking for more, more, more. Here is one of the funniest men I ever had the pleasure of seeing be funny in person…
