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George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American social critic, stand-up comedian, actor, and author.
- HE INHERITED HIS LOVE OF LANGUAGE. George's father, Patrick, was an advertising manager for the New York newspaper The Sun. He won a nationwide Dale Carnegie public speaking contest in 1935 with his speech "The Power of Mental Demand."
- GROWING UP, HE WANTED TO BE LIKE DANNY KAYE. "Danny Kaye was my childhood dream when I was 10, 11," Carlin said of the actor/singer/dancer/physical comedian/musician.
- HE WENT TO THE SAME HIGH SCHOOL AS MARTIN SCORSESE, REGIS PHILBIN, AND DON DELILLO. Unlike Regis Philbin, Martin Scorsese, and Don DeLillo, Carlin didn't graduate from Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx—because he was expelled.
- HE WAS COURT-MARTIALED (MORE THAN ONCE) IN THE AIR FORCE. Carlin worked as a radar technician on B-47s at Louisiana's Barksdale Air Force Base. He smoked pot he had mailed to him from New York on the base; the others did not recognize the smell.
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Jun 24, 2008 · Legendary comedian George Carlin died of heart failure on Sunday evening at the age of seventy-one. Carlin was one of the most well-known comedians of the past fifty years and was widely ...
May 5, 2024 · George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, singer, voice artist, and comedian, noted especially for his irreverent attitude and his observations on politics, language, psychology, and religion, as well as some taboo subjects.
May 13, 2022 · You can relive the greatest jokes and learn more about the life and controversial career of groundbreaking stand-up comedian George Carlin —who died in 2008 at age 71—in the two-night...
Nov 17, 2009 · Before his death in June 2008, comedian George Carlin spent 10 years working on a memoir, Last Words, with his longtime friend Tony Hendra.
Jun 24, 2008 · June 24, 2008. George Carlin, whose astringent stand-up comedy made him an heir of Lenny Bruce, who gave voice to an indignant counterculture and assaulted the barricades of censorship on behalf...
