The Right’s Long, Misguided Attempt to Claim Comedy’s Greatest Iconoclast for Themselves

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Both sides see him as one of their own, but they don't make an equally strong case.

Carlin was thinking about the fundamental lies of American democracy, at a time when they were, to put it mildly, not hot topics of the stand-upSo as we might expect from a pair of unapologetically progressive directors like Apatow and Bonfiglio,serves a purpose beyond the expected aims of biographical documentary and show-business celebration.

This, however, is where the conversation gets complicated. Carlin’s career was long and rich, spanning several epochs of mass cultural and political change. He took pains throughout to respond to those shifts, not only to remain relevant and topical, but to be true to himself.

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