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George Carlin
George Carlin

Carlin in Trenton, New Jersey on April 4, 2008

Birth name George Denis Patrick Carlin

Born May 12, 1937Manhattan, New York, U.S.

Died June 22, 2008 (aged 71)Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Medium Stand-up, television, film, books, radio

Nationality American

Years active 1956–2008

Genres Character comedy, observational comedy, Insult comedy, wit/word play, satire/political satire, black comedy, surreal humor,
sarcasm, blue comedy

Subject(s) American culture, American English, everyday life, atheism, recreational drug use, death, philosophy, human behavior, American
politics, parenting, children, religion, profanity, psychology, Anarchism, race relations, old age, pop culture, self-deprecation,
childhood, family

Influences [1] [2] [2] [3] [4] [5] [2] [5] [2] [5]
Danny Kaye, Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Jerry Lewis, Marx Brothers, Mort
[4] [5] [5] [2] [5]
Sahl, Spike Jones, Ernie Kovacs, Ritz Brothers Monty Python

Influenced [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Hicks, Jim Norton, Sam Kinison, Louis C.K., Bill Cosby, Lewis Black, Jon
[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]
Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, Denis Leary, Patrice O'Neal, Adam Carolla, Colin Quinn, Steven
[17] [18] [19] [19] [20]
Wright, Russell Peters, Jay Leno, Ben Stiller, Kevin Smith

Spouse Brenda Hosbrook

(August 5, 1961 — May 11, 1997) (her death) 1 child
[21]
Sally Wade (June 24, 1998 — June 22, 2008) (his death)

Notable works Class Clown

and roles "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television"
Mr. Conductor
in Shining Time Station
Narrator
in Thomas and Friends
HBO television specials
George O'Grady
in The George Carlin Show
Rufus in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Signature

Website [22]
www.georgecarlin.com
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Grammy Awards

Best Comedy Recording

1972 FM & AM
2009 It's Bad For Ya[posthumous]
Best Spoken Comedy Album
1993 Jammin' in New York
2001 Brain Droppings
2002 Napalm & Silly Putty

American Comedy Awards

Funniest Male Performer in a TV Special

1997 George Carlin: Back in Town
1998 George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy
Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy 2001

George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic,
actor and author, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.[23]
Carlin was noted for his black humor as well as his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion,
and various taboo subjects. Carlin and his "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S.
Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5–4 decision by the justices affirmed the
government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves.
The first of his 14 stand-up comedy specials for HBO was filmed in 1977. In the 1990s and 2000s, Carlin's routines
focused on the flaws in modern-day America. He often commented on contemporary political issues in the United
States and satirized the excesses of American culture. His final HBO special, It's Bad for Ya, was filmed less than
four months before his death.
In 2004, Carlin placed second on the Comedy Central list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time, ahead
of Lenny Bruce and behind Richard Pryor.[24] He was a frequent performer and guest host on The Tonight Show
during the three-decade Johnny Carson era, and hosted the first episode of Saturday Night Live. In 2008, he was
awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Early life
Carlin was born in Manhattan,[25] [26] the second son of Mary Beary, a secretary, and Patrick Carlin, a national
advertising manager for the New York Sun.[27] Carlin was of Irish descent and was raised a Roman Catholic.[28] [29]
[30]

Carlin grew up on West 121st Street, in a neighborhood of Manhattan which he later said, in a stand-up routine, he
and his friends called "White Harlem", because that sounded a lot tougher than its real name of Morningside Heights.
He was raised by his mother, who left his father when Carlin was two months old.[31] After three semesters, at the
age of 15, Carlin involuntarily left Cardinal Hayes High School and briefly attended Bishop Dubois High School [32]
in Harlem.[33] Carlin had a difficult relationship with his mother and often ran away from home.[2] He later joined
the United States Air Force and was trained as a radar technician. He was stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base in
Bossier City, Louisiana.
During this time he began working as a disc jockey on KJOE, a radio station based in the nearby city of Shreveport.
He did not complete his Air Force enlistment. Labeled an "unproductive airman" by his superiors, Carlin was
discharged on July 29, 1957.
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Career
In 1959, Carlin and Jack Burns began as a comedy team when both were working for radio station KXOL in Fort
Worth, Texas.[34] After successful performances at Fort Worth's beat coffeehouse, The Cellar, Burns and Carlin
headed for California in February 1960 and stayed together for two years as a team before moving on to individual
pursuits.

1960s
Within weeks of arriving in California in 1960, Burns and Carlin put together an audition tape and created The
Wright Brothers, a morning show on KDAY in Hollywood. The comedy team worked there for three months, honing
their material in beatnik coffeehouses at night.[35] Years later when he was honored with a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame, Carlin requested that it be placed in front of the KDAY studios.[36] Burns and Carlin recorded their
only album, Burns and Carlin at the Playboy Club Tonight, in May 1960 at Cosmo Alley in Hollywood.[35]
In the 1960s, Carlin began appearing on television variety shows, notably The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight
Show. His most famous routines were:
• The Indian Sergeant ("You wit' the beads... get outta line")
• Stupid disc jockeys ("Wonderful WINO...")—"The Beatles' latest record, when played backwards at slow speed,
says 'Dummy! You're playing it backwards at slow speed!'"
• Al Sleet, the "hippie-dippie weatherman"—"Tonight's forecast: Dark. Continued dark throughout most of the
evening, with some widely scattered light towards morning."
• Jon Carson—the "world never known, and never to be known"
Variations on the first three of these routines appear on Carlin's 1967 debut album, Take Offs and Put Ons, recorded
live in 1966 at The Roostertail in Detroit, Michigan.[37]
During this period, Carlin became more popular as a frequent performer and guest host on The Tonight Show,
initially with Jack Paar as host, then with Johnny Carson. Carlin became one of Carson's most frequent substitutes
during the host's three-decade reign. Carlin was also cast in Away We Go, a 1967 comedy show that aired on CBS.
His material during his early career and his appearance, which consisted of suits and short-cropped hair, had been
seen as "conventional", particularly when contrasted with his later anti-establishment material.[38]
Carlin was present at Lenny Bruce's arrest for obscenity. As the police began attempting to detain members of the
audience for questioning, they asked Carlin for his identification. Telling the police he did not believe in
government-issued IDs, he was arrested and taken to jail with Bruce in the same vehicle.[39]

1970s
Eventually, Carlin changed both his routines and his appearance. He lost some TV bookings by dressing strangely
for a comedian of the time, wearing faded jeans and sporting long hair, a beard, and earrings at a time when
clean-cut, well-dressed comedians were the norm. Using his own persona as a springboard for his new comedy, he
was presented by Ed Sullivan in a performance of "The Hair Piece" and quickly regained his popularity as the public
caught on to his sense of style.

“
Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits. Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that'll infect your soul, curve your
spine and keep the country from winning the war.
”
—George Carlin, Class Clown, "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television"

In this period he also perfected what is perhaps his best-known routine, "Seven Words You Can Never Say on
Television", recorded on Class Clown. Carlin was arrested on July 21, 1972, at Milwaukee's Summerfest and
charged with violating obscenity laws after performing this routine.[40] The case, which prompted Carlin to refer to
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the words for a time as "the Milwaukee Seven," was dismissed in December of that year; the judge declared that the
language was indecent but Carlin had the freedom to say it as long as he caused no disturbance. In 1973, a man
complained to the Federal Communications Commission after listening with his son to a similar routine, "Filthy
Words", from Occupation: Foole, broadcast one afternoon over WBAI, a Pacifica Foundation FM radio station in
New York City. Pacifica received a citation from the FCC that sought to fine the company for violating FCC
regulations that prohibited broadcasting "obscene" material. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the FCC action by a
vote of 5 to 4, ruling that the routine was "indecent but not obscene" and that the FCC had authority to prohibit such
broadcasts during hours when children were likely to be among the audience. (F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, 438
U.S. 726 (1978). The court documents contain a complete transcript of the routine.)[41]
The controversy only increased Carlin's fame. Carlin eventually expanded the dirty-words theme with a seemingly
interminable end to a performance (ending with his voice fading out in one HBO version and accompanying the
credits in the Carlin at Carnegie special for the 1982-83 season) and a set of 49 web pages[42] organized by subject
and embracing his "Incomplete List Of Impolite Words."
It was on-stage during a rendition of his Dirty Words routine that Carlin learned that his previous comedy album
"FM & AM" had won the Grammy. Midway through the performance on the album "Occupation: Foole", he can be
heard thanking someone for handing him a piece of paper. He then exclaims "Shit!" and proudly announces his win
to the audience.
Carlin was the first-ever host of NBC's Saturday Night Live, on October 11, 1975.[43] He also hosted SNL on
November 10, 1984. That time, he appeared in sketches, whereas during the first time he hosted, he only performed
stand-up and introduced the guest acts. The following season, 1976–77, Carlin also appeared regularly on CBS
Television's Tony Orlando & Dawn variety series.
Carlin unexpectedly stopped performing regularly in 1976, when his career appeared to be at its height. For the next
five years, he rarely appeared to perform stand-up, although it was at this time he began doing specials for HBO as
part of its On Location series. His first two HBO specials aired in 1977 and 1978. It was later revealed that Carlin
had suffered the first of three nonfatal heart attacks during this layoff period.[5]
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1980s and 1990s

In 1981, Carlin returned to the stage, releasing A Place For My Stuff and returning to HBO and New York City with
the Carlin at Carnegie TV special, videotaped at Carnegie Hall and airing during the 1982-83 season. Carlin
continued doing HBO specials every year or every other year over the following decade and a half. All of Carlin's
albums from this time forward are from the HBO specials.
Carlin's acting career was primed with a major supporting role in the
1987 comedy hit Outrageous Fortune, starring Bette Midler and
Shelley Long; it was his first notable screen role after a handful of
previous guest roles on television series. Playing drifter Frank Madras,
the role poked fun at the lingering effect of the 1960s counterculture.
In 1989, he gained popularity with a new generation of teens when he
was cast as Rufus, the time-traveling mentor of the titular characters in
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, and reprised his role in the film
sequel Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey as well as the first season of the
cartoon series. In 1991, he provided the narrative voice for the
American version of the children's show Thomas the Tank Engine and
Friends, a role he continued until 1998. He played "Mr. Conductor" on
the PBS children's show Shining Time Station, which featured Thomas
the Tank Engine from 1991 to 1993, as well as the Shining Time
Station TV specials in 1995 and Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales in
In concert at Harrisburg, PA 1996. Also in 1991, Carlin had a major supporting role in the movie
The Prince of Tides, which starred Nick Nolte and Barbra Streisand.

Carlin began a weekly Fox sitcom, The George Carlin Show, in 1993, playing New York City taxicab driver George
O'Grady. He quickly included a variation of the "seven words" in the plot. The show, created and written by The
Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon, ran 27 episodes through December 1995.[44]
In his final book, the posthumously published Last Words, Carlin said about The George Carlin Show: "I had a great
time. I never laughed so much, so often, so hard as I did with cast members Alex Rocco, Chris Rich, Tony Starke.
There was a very strange, very good sense of humor on that stage. The biggest problem, though, was that Sam Simon
was a fucking horrible person to be around. Very, very funny, extremely bright and brilliant, but an unhappy person
who treated other people poorly. I was incredibly happy when the show was canceled. I was frustrated that it had
taken me away from my true work."[45]
In 1997, his first hardcover book, Brain Droppings, was published and sold over 750,000 copies as of 2001. Carlin
was honored at the 1997 Aspen Comedy Festival with a retrospective, George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy, hosted
by Jon Stewart.
In 1999, Carlin played a supporting role as a satirical Roman Catholic cardinal in filmmaker Kevin Smith's movie
Dogma. He worked with Smith again with a cameo appearance in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and later played an
atypically serious role in Jersey Girl as the blue-collar father of Ben Affleck's character.

2000s
In 2001, Carlin was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 15th Annual American Comedy Awards.
In December 2003, California U.S. Representative Doug Ose (Republican), introduced a bill (H.R. 3687) to outlaw
the broadcast of Carlin's "seven dirty words," including "compound use (including hyphenated compounds) of such
words and phrases with each other or with other words or phrases, and other grammatical forms of such words and
phrases (including verb, adjective, gerund, participle, and infinitive forms)." (The bill omits "tits," but includes
"asshole," which was not part of Carlin's original routine.) This bill was never voted on. The last action on this bill
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was its referral to the House Judiciary Committee on the Constitution on January 15, 2004.[46]
For years, Carlin had performed regularly as a headliner in Las Vegas, but in 2005 he was fired from his headlining
position at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, after an altercation with his audience. After a poorly
received set filled with dark references to suicide bombings and beheadings, Carlin stated that he could not wait to
get out of "this fucking hotel" and Las Vegas, claiming he wanted to go back east, "where the real people are." He
continued to insult his audience, stating:
People who go to Las Vegas, you've got to question their fucking intellect to start with. Traveling hundreds
and thousands of miles to essentially give your money to a large corporation is kind of fucking moronic. That's
what I'm always getting here is these kind of fucking people with very limited intellects.
An audience member shouted back that Carlin should "stop degrading us," at which point Carlin responded, "Thank
you very much, whatever that was. I hope it was positive; if not, well, blow me." He was immediately fired by MGM
Grand and soon after announced he would enter rehab for alcohol and prescription painkiller addiction.[47] [48]
He began a tour through the first half of 2006 following the airing of his thirteenth HBO Special on November 5,
2005, entitled Life is Worth Losing,[49] which was shown live from the Beacon Theatre in New York City and in
which he stated early on: "I've got 341 days of sobriety," referring to the rehab he entered after being fired from
MGM. Topics covered included suicide, natural disasters (and the impulse to see them escalate in severity),
cannibalism, genocide, human sacrifice, threats to civil liberties in America, and how an argument can be made that
humans are inferior to other animals.
On February 1, 2006, during his Life is Worth Losing set at the Tachi Palace Casino in Lemoore, California, Carlin
mentioned to the crowd that he had been discharged from the hospital only six weeks previously for "heart failure"
and "pneumonia", citing the appearance as his "first show back."
Carlin provided the voice of Fillmore, a character in the Disney/Pixar animated feature Cars, which opened in
theaters on June 9, 2006. The character Fillmore, who is presented as an anti-establishment hippie, is a VW
Microbus with a psychedelic paint job whose front license plate reads "51237," Carlin's birthday. In 2007, Carlin
provided the voice of the wizard in Happily N'Ever After, along with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr, Andy
Dick, and Wallace Shawn, his last film.
Carlin's last HBO stand-up special, It's Bad for Ya, aired live on March 1, 2008, from the Wells Fargo Center for the
Arts in Santa Rosa, California.[50] The themes that appeared in this HBO special included "American Bullshit,"
"Rights," "Death," "Old Age," and "Child Rearing." Carlin had been working on the new material for this HBO
special for several months prior in concerts all over the country.
On June 18, 2008, four days before his death, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington,
D.C., announced that Carlin would be the 2008 honoree of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor,[51] which
was awarded on November 10, 2008. Carlin thus became the award's first posthumous recipient, a decision the
Kennedy Center made after consulting with both Carlin's family and PBS (which aired the ceremony).[52] The
comedians who honored him at the ceremony included Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Lily Tomlin (a former Twain Humor
Prize winner herself), Lewis Black, Denis Leary, Joan Rivers, and Margaret Cho.
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Personal life
In 1961, Carlin married Brenda Hosbrook (August 5, 1936 - May 11, 1997), whom he had met while touring the
previous year. The couple's only child, a daughter named Kelly, was born in 1963.[53] In 1971, George and Brenda
renewed their wedding vows in Las Vegas. Brenda died of liver cancer a day before Carlin's sixtieth birthday, in
1997.
Carlin later married Sally Wade on June 24, 1998, and the marriage lasted until his death, two days before their tenth
anniversary.[54]
In December 2004, Carlin announced that he would be voluntarily entering a drug rehabilitation facility to receive
treatment for his addiction to alcohol and Vicodin.[55]
Carlin did not vote and often criticized elections as an illusion of choice.[56] He said he last voted for George
McGovern, who ran for President in 1972[57] against Richard Nixon.

Religion
Although raised in the Roman Catholic faith (which he describes anecdotally on the albums FM & AM and Class
Clown) Carlin was an atheist and denounced the idea of a god. He pointed out the flaws of organized religion in
interviews and performances, notably with his "Religion" and "There Is No God" routines as heard in You Are All
Diseased. His views on religion are also mentioned in his last HBO stand up show "It's Bad for Ya" where he mocks
the traditional swearing on the Bible as being "bullshit",[58] "make believe", and "kids stuff". In "It's Bad for Ya",
Carlin has a skit about the ironic differences in the types of hats religions ban or require as part of their practices. He
mentions that he would never want to be a part of a group which requires or bans the wearing of hats.
Carlin also joked in his first book, Brain Droppings, that he worshiped the sun, one reason being that he could see it.
This was later mentioned in You Are All Diseased along with the statement that he prayed to Joe Pesci (a good friend
of his) because "he's a good actor," and "looks like a guy who can get things done!"[59]
In his HBO special Complaints and Grievances, Carlin introduced the "Two Commandments":
First: THOU SHALT ALWAYS BE HONEST AND FAITHFUL, ESPECIALLY TO THE PROVIDER OF THY
NOOKIE.
And second: THOU SHALT TRY REAL HARD NOT TO KILL ANYONE, UNLESS, OF COURSE, THEY PRAY
TO A DIFFERENT INVISIBLE AVENGER THAN THE ONE YOU PRAY TO,[60] a revised "pocket-sized" list of
the Ten Commandments ending with the additional commandment "Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself."[61]

Themes
Carlin's material falls under one of three self-described categories: "the little world" (observational humor), "the big
world" (social commentary), and the peculiarities of the English language (euphemisms, doublespeak, business
jargon), all sharing the overall theme of (in his words) "humanity's bullshit," which might include murder, genocide,
war, rape, corruption, religion and other aspects of human civilization. He was known for mixing observational
humour with larger social commentary. His delivery frequently treated these subjects in a misanthropic and nihilistic
fashion, such as in his statement during the Life is Worth Losing show:
I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with
nature: clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains, poisoning the atmosphere, over-fishing the oceans,
polluting the rivers and lakes, destroying wetlands and aquifers... so when nature strikes back, and smacks him
on the head and kicks him in the nuts, I enjoy that. I have absolutely no sympathy for human beings
whatsoever. None. And no matter what kind of problem humans are facing, whether it's natural or man-made, I
always hope it gets worse.
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Language was a frequent focus of Carlin's work. Euphemisms that in his view seek to distort and lie and the use of
language he felt was pompous, presumptuous, or silly were often the target of Carlin's routines. When asked on
Inside the Actors Studio what turned him on, he responded, "Reading about language." When asked what made him
most proud about his career, he said the number of his books that have been sold, close to a million copies.
Carlin also gave special attention to prominent topics in American and Western Culture, such as obsession with fame
and celebrity, consumerism, Christianity, political alienation, corporate control, hypocrisy, child raising, fast food
diet, news stations, self-help publications, blind patriotism, sexual taboos, certain uses of technology and
surveillance, and the pro-life position,[62] among many others.
Carlin openly communicated in his shows and in his interviews that his purpose
for existence was entertainment, that he was "here for the show." He professed a
hearty schadenfreude in watching the rich spectrum of humanity slowly
self-destruct, in his estimation, of its own design, saying, "When you're born, you
get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front-row
seat." He acknowledged that this is a very selfish thing, especially since he
included large human catastrophes as entertainment. In his You Are All Diseased
concert, he elaborated somewhat on this, telling the audience, "I have always
been willing to put myself at great personal risk for the sake of entertainment.
And I've always been willing to put you at great personal risk, for the same
George Carlin in Trenton, New
reason!" Jersey April 4, 2008

In the same interview, he recounted his experience of a California earthquake in

the early 1970s, as "[a]n amusement park ride. Really, I mean it's such a wonderful thing to realize that you have
absolutely no control, and to see the dresser move across the bedroom floor unassisted is just exciting."
A routine in Carlin's 1999 HBO special You Are All Diseased focusing on airport security leads up to the statement:
"Take a fucking chance! Put a little fun in your life! Most Americans are soft and frightened and unimaginative and
they don't realize there's such a thing as dangerous fun, and they certainly don't recognize a good show when they
see one."
Along with wordplay and sex jokes, Carlin had always included politics as part of his material, but by the mid 1980s
he had become a strident social critic in both his HBO specials and the book compilations of his material, bashing
both conservatives and liberals alike. His HBO viewers got an especially sharp taste of this in his take on the Ronald
Reagan administration during the 1988 special What Am I Doing In New Jersey?, broadcast live from the Park
Theatre in Union City, New Jersey.

Death and legacy

On June 22, 2008, Carlin was admitted to Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, after experiencing
chest pains. He died later that day at 5:57 p.m. of heart failure. Carlin was 71 years old.
He had a history of cardiac problems including an arrhythmia, requiring an ablation in 2003, and heart failure in
2005 where he was revived by medical workers. Despite going through drug and alcohol rehabilitation his health
continued to decline. [Carlin, G. (2009). Last words. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.]
His death occurred one week after his last performance at The Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and he had
further shows on his itinerary.[21] [63] [64] In accordance with his wishes, Carlin was cremated, with his ashes
scattered, and no public or religious services of any kind were held.[65] [66] Two of the networks he performed on
changed their schedule in tribute to Carlin. HBO devoted several hours to broadcast eleven of Carlin's fourteen HBO
specials from June 25–28, 2008, including a twelve-hour marathon block on their HBO Comedy channel.
Meanwhile, NBC scheduled a rerun of the premiere episode of Saturday Night Live which Carlin hosted.[67] [68] [69]
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Both Sirius Satellite Radio's "Raw Dog Comedy" and XM Satellite Radio's "XM Comedy" channels ran a memorial
marathon of George Carlin recordings the day following his death. Another tribute was the "Doonesbury" comic
strip on Sunday, July 27, 2008.[70]
Louis C. K. dedicated his stand-up special Chewed Up to Carlin.
Lewis Black dedicated his entire second season of Root of All Evil to Carlin.
An episode of Larry King Live paid tribute to Carlin, featuring comics Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Maher, Roseanne Barr and
Lewis Black. Carlin's daughter and his brother were also interviewed by King. The next day, The New York Times
published a tribute to Carlin written by Jerry Seinfeld.[71]
An oral history, edited by Carlin's daughter, Kelly, was published in 2009. The book contains stories from Carlin's
friends and family and covers the considered high points of his career as well as the considered low, including his
drug and alcohol addiction.[72]
For a number of years prior to his death, Carlin had been compiling and writing his autobiography, planning to
release it in conjunction with a second, long-worked-on project, a one-man Broadway show tentatively titled New
York City Boy, covering essentially the same topics. After his death his collaborator on the projects, Tony Hendra,
edited the autobiography for release as Last Words (ISBN 1-4391-7295-1). The book covers Carlin's life up to
around Life is Worth Losing, with the final chapter detailing future plans, including the planned one-man show. The
book was released one year and four months after Carlin's death. The audio version of the book was read by George's
brother Patrick and featured an interview with Tony Hendra and George's daughter, Kelly.
Another book of his writings to his widow, Sally Wade, as well as the story of their courtship is due to be released in
2011. It will be called "The George Carlin Letters: The Permanent Courtship of Sally Wade." The phrase in the title
"The Permanent Courtship of Sally Wade" was the note she found next to her computer after coming home from the
hospital when he died. The book is the story of their love and their life together, as told by both of them. Many of the
writings in this book have not been published before as they were private moments shared between Sally and
George, but they enrich the telling of this story of the later years of his life. The book will be published by Simon
and Schuster.

Collection of works

Discography
Main
• 1963: Burns and Carlin at the Playboy Club Tonight
• 1967: Take-Offs and Put-Ons
• 1972: FM & AM
• 1972: Class Clown
• 1973: Occupation: Foole
• 1974: Toledo Window Box
• 1975: An Evening with Wally Londo Featuring Bill Slaszo
• 1977: On the Road
• 1981: A Place for My Stuff
• 1984: Carlin on Campus
• 1986: Playin' with Your Head
• 1988: What Am I Doing In New Jersey?
• 1990: Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics
• 1992: Jammin' in New York
• 1996: Back in Town
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• 1999: You Are All Diseased

• 2001: Complaints and Grievances
• 2006: Life Is Worth Losing
• 2008: It's Bad for Ya
Compilations
• 1978: Indecent Exposure: Some of the Best of George Carlin
• 1984: The George Carlin Collection
• 1992: Classic Gold
• 1999: The Little David Years (1971-1977)
• 2002: George Carlin on Comedy

Filmography

Year Movie

1968 With Six You Get Eggroll

1976 Car Wash

1979 Americathon

1987 Outrageous Fortune

1989 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

1990 Working Trash

1991 Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

The Prince of Tides

1999 Dogma

2001 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

2003 Scary Movie 3

2004 Jersey Girl

2005 Tarzan II (voice)

The Aristocrats

2006 Cars (voice)

2007 Happily N'Ever After (voice)

Television
• The Kraft Summer Music Hall (1966)
• That Girl (Guest appearance) (1966)
• The Ed Sullivan Show (multiple appearances)
• The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (season 3 guest appearance) (1968)
• The Flip Wilson Show (writer, performer) (1971–1973)
• The Mike Douglas Show (Guest) (February 18, 1972)
• Saturday Night Live (Host, episodes 1 and 183) (1975 & 1984)
• Justin Case (as Justin Case) (1988) TV movie directed Blake Edwards
• Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends (as American Narrator) (1991–1998)
• Shining Time Station (as Mr. Conductor) (1991–1993)
• The George Carlin Show (as George O'Grady) (1994) Fox
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• Streets of Laredo (as Billy Williams) (1995)

• The Simpsons (as Munchie, episode 209) (1998)
• The Daily Show (guest on February 1, 1999; December 16, 1999; and March 10, 2004)
• MADtv (Guest appearance in episodes 518 & 524) (2000)
• Inside the Actors Studio (2004)
• In 1998, Carlin had a cameo playing one of the funeral-attending comedians in Jerry Seinfeld's HBO special I'm
Telling You For The Last Time. In the funeral intro (the only thing being buried is Jerry Seinfeld's material) Carlin
learns that neither friend Robert Klein nor Ed McMahon ever saw Jerry's act. Carlin did, and enjoyed it, but
admits "I was full of drugs."

HBO specials

Special Year

On Location: George Carlin at USC 1977

George Carlin: Again! 1978

Carlin at Carnegie 1982

Carlin on Campus 1984

Playin' with Your Head 1986

What Am I Doing in New Jersey? 1988

Doin' It Again 1990

Jammin' in New York 1992

Back in Town 1996

George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy 1997

You Are All Diseased 1999

Complaints and Grievances 2001

Life Is Worth Losing 2005

All My Stuff 2007 A boxset of Carlin's first 12 stand-up specials (excluding George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy).

It's Bad for Ya 2008

Bibliography

Book Year Notes

Sometimes a Little Brain Damage Can Help 1984 [73]

ISBN 0-89471-271-3

Brain Droppings 1997 [74]

ISBN 0-7868-8321-9

Napalm and Silly Putty 2001 [75]

ISBN 0-7868-8758-3

When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? 2004 [76]

ISBN 1-4013-0134-7

Three Times Carlin: An Orgy of George 2006 [77]

ISBN 978-1-4013-0243-6 A collection of the 3 previous titles.

Watch My Language 2009 [78] [79]

ISBN 0-7868-8838-5 Posthumous release (not yet released).

Last Words 2009 [80]

ISBN 1-4391-7295-1 Posthumous release.
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For several years before his death, Carlin had been working on a memoir, Last Words, in collaboration with writer
Tony Hendra. Hendra secured permission from Carlin's family to go ahead with the book. It was published by Simon
& Schuster's Free Press imprint on November 17, 2009.[81]
Carlin also spent several years writing a one-man show for the Broadway stage, tentatively titled Watch My
Language or New York City Boy.[82] It was published in 2009 by Disney's Hyperion Books, who also published
Carlin's Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops, and the compilation
Three Times Carlin: An Orgy of George. It was re-published in paperback as New York Boy on September 1, 2010,
but has not been officially released.[83]

Audiobooks
• Brain Droppings
• Napalm and Silly Putty
• More Napalm & Silly Putty
• George Carlin Reads to You
• When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

Internet hoaxes
Since the birth of spam email on the internet, many chain-forwards, usually rantlike and with blunt statements of
belief on political and social issues and attributed to being written (or stated) by George Carlin himself, have made
continuous rounds on the junk email circuit. The website Snopes, an online resource that debunks historic and
present urban legends and myths, has extensively covered these forgeries. Many of the falsely attributed email
attachments have contained material that runs directly opposite to Carlin's viewpoints, with some being especially
volatile toward racial groups, gays, women, the homeless, etc. Carlin himself, when he was made aware of each of
these bogus emails, would debunk them on his own website, writing: "Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless
it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website," and that "it bothers me that
some people might believe that I would be capable of writing some of this stuff."[84] [85] [86] [87] [88] [89]

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External links
• Official website (http://http://www.georgecarlin.com/)
• George Carlin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137506/) at the Internet Movie Database
• Rotten Library - George Carlin (http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/comic/george-carlin/)
• George Carlin Archive of American Television Interview (http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/
george-carlin)
• George Carlin (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=27758510) at Find a Grave
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