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
I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.
I set out to become a comedian, and I said in order to do that the first thing I'll do is become a disc jockey and know my pop music. I like it, my voice is good, and I can start out getting confidence without an audience in front of me.
I became a guy who wanted to be a comedian someday, or a comic actor. The way I put it was, I'll be like Danny Kaye. He was kind of the model I had in mind.
I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians.
Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.
By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast.
I went to the Missing Persons Bureau but no one was there.
I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again.
I worry about my judgment when anything I believe in or do regularly begins to be accepted by the American public.
Soft rock music isn’t rock, and it ain’t music. It’s just soft.
I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the Golden Age of television came along when I was still in my early teens.
In comic strips, the person on the right always speaks first.
I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos