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The best comedians I've ever seen have been local ones, and recent - weird, strange acts that will never get a Netflix special and are never rehashing old ideas. I don't mean that the greatest comic happens to be in my city, I mean that the greatest comics in the world will never get an audience outside their hometown (plus a small, rabid following at MICF [Melbourne International Comedy Festival], Edinburgh Fringe, and Montreal).Carlin got his laughs, yes. But does "greatest of all time" exist for comics? Humor varies greatly across the ages and the places. "Greatest post-WW2 American comic" might characterize George better. Of course, that makes the whole thing sound provincial. (Which was my point, anyway.)