George Carlin dies at age 71 ~ The Get F*CKED MERGE

[JonRaider]

A truly sad day for comedy. The guy is irreplaceable! RIP

[Touchdown]

I just heard the news a few minutes ago. Best comedian ever. He will be missed

[JUSTautumnWINd]

RIP, George

[jamarcus2]

when did he pass?? oh man i loved george carlin

[Trife]

Great Man. he was complicated but I loved his philosophy's.

[RaiderInKilt]

Sad news
Funny guy and intelligent too

[kyh0mpb]

"In football, I root for the Raiders because they hire castoffs, outlaws, malcontents, and f*ck -ups, they have lots of penalties, fights, and paybacks, and because Al Davis told the rest of the pig NFL owners to go get f*cked... Someday, the Raiders will be strong again, and they will dip the ball in $hit and shove it down the throats of the wholesome, heartland teams that pray together and don't deliver late hits" – George Carlin

RIP George Carlin. He was a great comedian, and a fellow Raider.

[vmmalian]

Funny guy, great Raider fan. Heck my 4 year old even loved the guy cause he used to do Thomas the Tank Engine. Multi-talented. RIP George.

[Mykle VanHausen]

Icon of the hippie movement helped bridge the gap between insanely uptight middle America and the hippie movement eventually helping to unite the 2 to stop a soulless Republican money generating propsition called the Vietnam war.

R.I.P. G.C.

Thanks for the laughs...

[gdamac]

Pryor, Carlin, and Bruce. The "holy trinity" of comedy. You'll be missed George.

[T_rentsthename]

I rarely feel as though when a celebrity dies that I give a sht, but when I read that he died earlier tonight I stopped in my tracks. I mentioned his passing to some of the servers at my restaurant and all but one responded to me "who's that?" The one who knew who he was got as pissed as I was and said you guys never heard him do the 7 words you can't say on TV?

For those of you who don't know what I am talking about check it out. It will change your life.

[T_rentsthename]

I have always loved his comedy and have had him in my sig since I joined. He was amazing in his youth and even more amazing as time passed and other comedians caught up to him.

[the_new_Jerry]

RIP George!!!!!!!!!!!

You will be missed... !

I wish I would've made my plans to come out and see you when you came through recently...

I knew I missed out.

GodSpeed.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

-George Carlin

[Black Widow]

Just heard it on the news!!!!!!!!!!!!


Comedian George Carlin dies at 71 - Celebrities - MSNBC.com

Comedian George Carlin dies at 71
Anti-Establishment icon gained fame with his ‘Seven Dirty Words’ routine


updated 1:33 a.m. CT, Mon., June. 23, 2008

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - 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.
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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.”


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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.