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Goodbye to the Hippy Dippy Weatherman
George Carlin passed away last night at the age of 71. One of his more well-known bits was a skit featuring a fictional weather forecaster named "Al Sleet," who issued insightful predictions such as, "Weather forecast for tonight: Dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning." Watch the video below (Warning: includes offensive language) for Al Sleet's full forecast.
See our full forecast for the latest on the potential for storms later today, and the outlook through the weekend.
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Dan Stillman
| June 23, 2008; 12:00 PM ET
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Posted by: Guillemot | June 23, 2008 12:09 PM | Report abuse
Rest in peace, Mr. Carlin. Rest in peace.
Posted by: Mr. Q. | June 23, 2008 12:32 PM | Report abuse
You know they are laughing hard in heaven right now.
thanks for sharing that.
Posted by: dinergirl | June 23, 2008 12:40 PM | Report abuse
My all-time favorite comedian! . . . "folks I wouldn't sweat the thunderstorms since the radar has also picked up a squadron of Russian ICBM's" . . . so long Al Sleet :-(
Posted by: Uncle Dak | June 23, 2008 3:06 PM | Report abuse
Where's the offensive language?
Posted by: mcleaNed | June 23, 2008 5:30 PM | Report abuse
George was sitting by the phone when the heart attack came. He reached toward, hesitated, cocked his head to one side, and said," Ah-h, F___ it, and just leaned back.
Posted by: Bill | June 23, 2008 7:37 PM | Report abuse
Just one word, at 2:05 into the video.
Posted by: Capital Weather Gang | June 23, 2008 9:28 PM | Report abuse
Aw, man! I was SO proud last week when I heard that the Mark Twain award would be (finally) given to Carlin. Well, Mark and George must be enjoying the get-together out there somewhere.
Supreme sadness for all of us that we'll no longer have a current voice of observant wit and protest to speak for us as only Carlin could.
Goodbye, Al - and it's all right now.
Talitha
Posted by: talitha | June 24, 2008 12:12 PM | Report abuse
So sad, someone you were't expecting to hear die, like he was always going to around. He was one of the all time best !
Posted by: JERRY ARMSTRONG | June 25, 2008 2:10 AM | Report abuse
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I'm sad that he passed away. It seems like only yesterday that I first heard his weatherman skit.