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Now We're Mad: George Carlin Dead At 71

Posted by Brian Fairbanks

 

George Carlin, who carried on the legacy of Lenny Bruce with a fight for free speech, died at 71 on Sunday of heart failure. Today, we reflect on some of our favorite moments in the great funnyman's career...

In 1973, Carlin went on the radio with his "Seven Words You Can't Say On Television." Whoops-- you couldn't say them on the radio, either. (He'd already been arrested a year earlier for simply reciting them in public-- see above photo.) The prudish Supreme Court ruled against Carlin, a fact that history will surely judge the 1978 Court harshly for.

We loved the "Class Clown" album, which contains the above-mentioned routine. You can hear Part 1 of this recordo on YouTube.

The first time we ever heard George Carlin on the radio, he was doing a bit called "People I Can Do Without." (In other words, "People I would kill if it were legal.") Some of our favorite lines:

A pimp who drives a Toyota Corolla.

People who actually know the second verse to "The Star-Spangled Banner."

Any lawyer who refers to the police as the "Federalies."

A cross-eyed nun with a bullwhip and a bottle of gin!

A brain surgeon with "Born to Lose" tattooed on his hands.

Couples whose children's names all start with the same initials.

A man in a hospital gown directing traffic.

We'll miss you, George. There's no one out there half as crazy or half as brilliant (well, Chris Rock's pretty talented, but still...) 


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Wrongo said:

I'm so said that I pricked my finger.

June 23, 2008 10:18 AM

Twolane said:

You can prick your finger, but you can't finger your prick.

    - George Carlin

June 23, 2008 12:26 PM

profrobert said:

I remember listening to Carlin's first HBO special (listening because we didn't subscribe to HBO back in the '70s, but only the video was scrambled).  I got to see him live at the Beacon back then and again a few years ago (and a couple of times in Vegas, where he didn't belong at all).  Somewhere along the line the routines became less funny and more just angry rants (like the People I Can Do Without" bit -- it's really not funny.  At his best, he looked at words and language, and how government and corporations twist them to sell their ideas to the sheeplike public.  He was a huge influence on my world view and contributed mightly to my tendency to question authority, "common knowledge" and received wisdom.  I will miss him.

June 23, 2008 6:02 PM

nederick said:

Gah!  People keep dying.  I know, I know, but seriously it seems like the bright lights are going at an alarming rate.  I guess it's just that I'm old enough to experience the phenomenon that probably every generation goes through, but it still feels funky.  

Saw George Carlin when I was little with my dad.  The world seems a little dimmer now that he's not here.  

On Fresh Air today, they aired his reading of the "Secret News."  Go find it.  Now that's amazing.

June 23, 2008 6:56 PM

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Brian Fairbanks, the Senior National Political Correspondent for Hooksexup, is a filmmaker living in the wilds of Brooklyn. He previously wrote for the Hartford Courant and Gawker/The Consumerist. He will be first against the wall, come the revolution.

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Brian Fairbanks is a filmmaker living in the wilds of Brooklyn. He previously wrote for the Hartford Courant and Gawker. He won the Williamsburg Spelling Bee once. He loves cats, women with guns, and burning books.

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