Reply #54: I saw him work a college in the early seventies...

[Spiffarino]

It was not long after he'd transformed from well-groomed Tonight Show comic to bearded hippie observationalist.

I was eleven years old, and he was the most incredibly funny person I'd ever seen. In addition to the laughs, he was the ultimate cynic who trusted nobody's motives. The man changed the way I looked at the world and made me determined to challenge everything and everyone.

I am so sad to lose him. He wasn't always "right" as I see things, but he always forced me out of my comfy place and made me think.

Goodbye George, and safe travels. May there be more like you, and soon.