George Carlin Gets Dark - Charlie Rose Interview 1996 by [[Charlie Rose]]
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"This idea goes with that one, and I never suspected it, and then to make something out of it that's bigger than the two of them"
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19:10 -> 19:15<br /> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9OhMZYTS4E
In Carlin’s archives, by contrast, the jokes were “mainly scraps of paper organized into Ziploc baggies then put into a folder by topic.”
quote by Journey Gunderson, the executive director of the National Comedy Center
Carlin’s bags of categorized ideas, from the archives of George Carlin
George Carlin kept his slips (miscellaneous scraps of collected paper with notes) sorted by topic name in Ziploc bags (literally that specific brand given the photo's blue/purple signature on the bag locks).
This is similar to others, including historian Keith Thomas, who kept his in labeled envelopes.