Ripped? Those casual T-shirt model guys are skinny as.
Carlin is a comedian. I enjoy his work, couldn't care less about the rest of his life. In saying that, Uncle Jophil, I don't think he's much of a leftist at all. See what he said about people trying to "save the planet" for example.
I read somewhere recently that you know we're fvcked when people start to idolize comedians as folk heroes (the exact words were something else but similar) and take their words as wisdom. They do say some dead-on stuff, but there's something very wrong about such idolatry.