George Carlin is a well known stand up comedian that lived most of his life in Manhattan, New York. He has a profound way of looking at life and express them with jokes. In most of his speech, he loves to use contradictions, wrong expression, and even poke fun at euphemism, as quoted:

"I don't like words that hide the truth. I don't like words that conceal reality. I don't like euphemisms, or euphemistic language. And American English is loaded with euphemisms. Cause Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality. Americans have trouble facing the truth, so they invent the kind of a soft language to protect themselves from it."

On some occasion, he will go a lengthy way of explaining redundancy (like there is no such term such as 'exactly right' or 'added bonus') & oxymorons (with terms such as 'silent alarm' or 'open secret').

One reason he was such a great comedian and speaker is because he injected some of his wise idea or perspective that will certainly reel-in your attention. Great stuff for ways to view life in a different view. He also added lots of sensitive issues as racism & religion and most of what he debated actually make sense. However, I have to fore-warn about his love of profanity as well...