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06-23-2008, 04:13 AM
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George Carlin Dead at 71
http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/e.../20649344.html
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" routine, died of heart failure Sunday. He was 71.
Carlin went into a Santa Monica hospital Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham.
Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. It was announced Tuesday that Carlin was being awarded the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Carlin constantly pushed the envelop with his jokes, particularly with the "Seven Words" a routine called "The Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV."
When Carlin uttered all seven at a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested for disturbing the peace. And when they were played on a New York radio station, they resulted in a Supreme Court ruling in 1978 upholding the government's authority to sanction stations for broadcasting offensive language.
"So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I'm perversely kind of proud of," he told The Associated Press earlier this year.
He produced 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, three books, a couple of TV shows and appeared in several movies. Carlin hosted the first broadcast of "Saturday Night Live" and noted on his Web site that he was "loaded on cocaine all week long."
When asked about the fallout from the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction," Carlin told the AP, "What are we, surprised?"
"There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body," he said. "It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have."
Carlin was born May 12, 1937 and grew up in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, raised by a single mother. After dropping out of high school in the ninth grade, he joined the Air Force in 1954. He received three court-martials and numerous disciplinary punishments, according to his official Web site.
While in the Air Force he started working as an off-base disc jockey at a radio station in Shreveport, La., and after receiving a general discharge in 1957, took an announcing job at WEZE in Boston.
"Fired after three months for driving mobile news van to New York to buy pot," his Web site says.
From there he went on to a job on the night shift as a deejay at a radio station in Forth Worth, Texas. Carlin also worked variety of temporary jobs including a carnival organist and a marketing director for a peanut brittle.
In 1960, he left with a Texas radio buddy, Jack Burns, for Hollywood to pursue a nightclub career as comedy team Burns & Carlin. He left with $300, but his first break came just months later when the duo appeared on the Tonight Show with Jack Paar.
Carlin said he hoped to would emulate his childhood hero, Danny Kaye, the kindly, rubber-faced comedian who ruled over the decade that Carlin grew up in - the 1950s - with a clever but gentle humor reflective of its times.
Only problem was, it didn't work for him.
"I was doing superficial comedy entertaining people who didn't really care: Businessmen, people in nightclubs, conservative people. And I had been doing that for the better part of 10 years when it finally dawned on me that I was in the wrong place doing the wrong things for the wrong people," Carlin reflected recently as he prepared for his 14th HBO special, "It's Bad For Ya."
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06-23-2008, 04:26 AM
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NOOOO!!!
I loved Carlin. :[
This is very sad....
No more dirty sex jokes that were actually funny....
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06-23-2008, 04:48 AM
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Damn, that sucks. He was a cool guy.
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06-23-2008, 04:56 AM
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He had a long, full, and seemingly satisfied life. I hate him being gone what, at 71, feels still too soon. Much love to ya, Mr. carlin.
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06-23-2008, 04:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Miss Cogs
NOOOO!!!
I loved Carlin. :[
This is very sad....
No more dirty sex jokes that were actually funny....
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Agreed, I wish I could of seen him live.
I practicaly grew up on the guy, when I was a little kid I watched him on "shining time station" and even then I knew he was great, he was the best Mr. Conductor far better than Ringo star I think. No one seems to have updated his website.
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06-23-2008, 06:41 AM
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If I were to sum up the source of his drive, his wit and creative satire it would be this quote of his:
"I get PISSED OFF!"
I am going to watch his Live show when I get home from work in his memory.
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06-23-2008, 08:10 AM
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Never heard of him.
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06-23-2008, 08:17 AM
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I'm sad for his family and friends, but honestly...I hated him. I couldn't stand his voice, his humor, or his shitty comedic timing.
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06-23-2008, 08:22 AM
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R.I.P. He is definitely in my top 3 list of the greatest stand-up comedians ever born.
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06-23-2008, 08:55 AM
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FUCK.
SERIOUSLY.
FUCK.
This guy was the fucking shit, and he said what needed to be said and now nobody's got the balls to say it. This sucks so hard it's unreal.
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06-23-2008, 09:12 AM
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I don't care much for stand up comedy, but I thought George Carlin was brilliant and hilarious. He will be greatly missed.
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06-23-2008, 09:39 AM
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this sucks. george was an american classic. he said the shit everybody was thinking but no one had the balls to say it. i guess we're all just going to have to learn to speak up for ourselves.
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06-23-2008, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by honeythorn
Never heard of him.
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Same here.
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06-23-2008, 09:45 AM
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FUCK NOOOO!
He was going to come to my city! ):
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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06-23-2008, 12:16 PM
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Hmm does anyone know where exactly in Milwaukee he said those seven sweet words? I think I might want to visit that place and if there isn't a memorial there already, see if I can get one put up?
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Simply look him up on youtube there is tons of stuff on him there.
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"The chaos of the world viewed from a distance reveals perfection."- me
"Never overestimate the intellect of someone so foolish that they would exploit and perpetuate stupidity in the people around them, for they create their own damnation as they tear out and sell the pillars that support society as a whole, bringing it crashing down upon them."-me
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Einstein
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06-23-2008, 12:53 PM
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Same here.
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You should really look him up. You would be doing yourself a favor.
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06-23-2008, 01:26 PM
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06-23-2008, 02:30 PM
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06-23-2008, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Renatus
Hmm does anyone know where exactly in Milwaukee he said those seven sweet words? I think I might want to visit that place and if there isn't a memorial there already, see if I can get one put up?
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Ah it was at summerfest, nope I don't think there is one there.
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"The chaos of the world viewed from a distance reveals perfection."- me
"Never overestimate the intellect of someone so foolish that they would exploit and perpetuate stupidity in the people around them, for they create their own damnation as they tear out and sell the pillars that support society as a whole, bringing it crashing down upon them."-me
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Einstein
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06-23-2008, 06:25 PM
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It was really fucking weird when I saw the news this morning because I was thinking about how long he had to live a few days ago. It's a shame there aren't more ground breakers like him in comedy.
If you want to see another comedian with excess balls, look up Bill Hicks on Youtube.
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06-23-2008, 06:26 PM
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Most unfortunate -_- Well, at least for once, the good didn't die young.
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06-23-2008, 06:32 PM
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You know, not to sound heartless, but I really kinda figured he'd go this year. I really don't know why, it was just a hunch.
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06-23-2008, 06:38 PM
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He sees the signs of death, this one.
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06-23-2008, 10:18 PM
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It's 'cause Kontan was jettisoned from the hole of a norn
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06-23-2008, 11:34 PM
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I just looked him up, and wow. I didn't even know him before he died... and I miss him.
I'm listening to his "religion is bullshit" right now.
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