Please tell me it's just a joke.... (RIP George Carlin)

I chose this clip, even though he shares the spotlight here (with Flip Wilson) and usually worked alone, because twenty years after I first heard it, the "freak accident" joke still makes me giggle.

I loved his musings on words and language ("Tune in again next week for "F#CK OF THE MOUNTAIN!!!".
I loved his "suggestions for keeping  people  alert" like "Go into a  gun store   Buy a gun, then buy some ammunition.    Then ask the guy if they have any ski masks."
I loved the spot he did (SNL?) where all he did was go out there and stand, silent, looking at the audience which started laughing louder and louder.    Before Kaufman did anything "experimental".  

In recent years I  got sad watching how angry he became onstage--not because he was wrong about the stuff that made him angry, but because more angry started to become less funny.    

The tag below (thinking up goofy sh!t) is Carlin's own description of his job.

::::::raises glass, waves bye-bye:::::::   Goodbye, teacher I never met...