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George Carlin's Last Dying Laugh
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All About Jazz
George Carlin laughs in the face of death His final album comes out Tuesday, may be comic's best ever
Just months before he died, George Carlin was looking into the face of death -- and making it the butt of his jokes.
You know what I've been doing? Going through my address book and crossing out the dead people. It gives you a feeling of power, of superiority, to have outlasted another old friend. It's Bad For Ya! ...
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Supreme Court on George Carlin
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All About Jazz
WARNING! The following is directly quoted from the Supreme Court Decision of FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION v. PACIFICA FOUNDATION, 438 U.S. 726, 98 S.Ct. 3026 (1978). Mr. Justice STEVENS (delivering the majority opinion) This case requires that we decide whether the Federal Communications Commission has any power to regulate a radio broadcast that is indecent but not obscene. A satiric humorist named George Carlin recorded a 12-minute monologue entitled “Filthy Words" before a live audience in a California theater. He began ...
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Remembering George Carlin in Vegas
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Michael Ricci
I should have written about George Carlin yesterday, but each time I tried, I was too sad to keep going.
So, history will record that George Carlin's last public performance turned out to be in Las Vegas on June 15, 2008 at the off-Strip casino Orleans. Vegas was a town he told me he hated, filled with audiences he loathed: “It is the most dispiriting, soul-deadening city on earth." We agreed to disagree. After all, to Carlin, Vegas was the ...
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Carlin a Fine Troublemaker
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Michael Ricci
George Carlin Tested Limits of Speech and Society.
The comedian liked to cause a fuss with his observations -- and we liked him for it.
It was always comforting to know that George Carlin was out there making trouble. Like Richard Pryor, he straddled the great cultural divide that was the 1960s, coming in as a lamb and going out as a lion. I remember him first as another of that age's suit-and-tie comics, putting on funny characters: the Hippy-Dippy ...
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George Carlin Collision of Comedy and Politics Dies
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Michael Ricci
George Carlin, 71; comedian tested limits of speech and society
He gained notoriety for his 'seven dirty words,' but his incisive commentaries were as clever as they were vulgar. By Rich Connell and Jason Song, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers June 23, 2008 George Carlin, the acerbic, Grammy-winning comedian whose career spanned more than 50 years, died of heart failure Sunday evening after being admitted to the hospital complaining of chest pains, his spokesman said. He was 71. Carlin, who ...
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Berklee College of Music and the Monterey Jazz Festival Name Richmond's Carlin Muccular Seventh Jimmy Lyons Scholar
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All About Jazz
Presentation to be made by Albert “Tootie" Heath, 2 pm Sunday
Monterey and Boston, Sept. 20, 2002-- Berklee College of Music and the Monterey Jazz Festival announced today that Carlin Muccular of Richmond, CA is the seventh recipient of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship at Berklee, a major jazz education prize. The scholarship is named in honor of the festival's late founder, James L. (Jimmy) Lyons, who began the festival more than 40 years ago with jazz education at its core. ...
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