Did George Carlin have the best comedy routine on every political subject? Judd Apatow thinks so
SalonLegendary comedian George Carlin passed away in 2008, but as you can watch firsthand in HBO Max's new two-part documentary series, "George Carlin's American Dream," his material on issues ranging from racism to gun violence to abortion resonate more today than ever. In your remarkable documentary on HBO, "George Carlin's American Dream," there's a line in it where the title comes from. And Carlin says, "The owners of this country know the truth that it's called, the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it." RELATED: George Carlin's dark genius: From his 1957 "dirty, stupid" cop take-downs to the jokes that 9/11 made too raw to release During the second part of the Carlin documentary, you leave in his long comedy bits, which I think is so important.