George Carlin - The big club

Gábor Hényel0 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
1.1M views · comedy · evergreen · Uploaded 2014-05-05

A short George Carlin routine in which he says the owners of the country run a big club and ordinary people are not in it.

Quoted whenever commenters want to express that wealth and power are rigged against ordinary people, as in Robinhood or big-tech threads.

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4 comments from Hacker News

@tomjakubowski2017 · in “Amazon has a patent to keep people from comparison shopping in stores”

Not to be confused with Groucho Marx's joke about belonging to clubs. :-) Carlin's bit, for reference. [VIDEO]

@jsm3862018 · in “What it’s like to be on the board of a Fortune 500 company”

> To put it in Bill Burr's words,"It's a big CLUB. And YOU AIN'T IN IT." Pretty sure that's actually a George Carlin line, from a relatively famous routine of his. Many, many clips, but here's a random one: [VIDEO]

@fireeyed2021 · in “Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours”

"Its a big club and you ain't in it" - George Carlin Politicians + Government Lackeys, Media Hacks + Corrupt Wall Street + Think Tanks + 'not for profits' [VIDEO]

@wnevets2025 · in “OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive”

> It’s mind boggling how much money is floating around once you are part of the insider circle. it's a big club and you ain't in it [1] [1] [VIDEO]