George Carlin
George Carlin
George Denis Patrick Carlinwas an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic and author. Carlin was noted for his black comedy and his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. Carlin and his "Seven dirty words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a 5–4 decision affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth12 May 1937
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
We get what we deserve. They are our elected officials.
Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are.
Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.
Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.
Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work.
Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors.
My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was conscious of language and words.
It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers.
I'm offering a special prize for the first Buick on the moon.
I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left.
I grew up in New York wanting to be like those funny men in the movies and on the radio.
I don't think we really gave barbarism a fair try.
I do something about the weather. I stay home.
Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country.