The Indian Sergeant – "There will be a rain dance tonight. In the 1960s, Carlin began appearing on television variety shows, where he played various characters: After two years together as a team, they parted to pursue individual careers, but "remain the best of friends". Burns and Carlin recorded their only album, Burns and Carlin at the Playboy Club Tonight, in May 1960 at Cosmo Alley in Hollywood. Years later when he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Carlin requested that it be placed in front of the KDAY studios near the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street. During their tenure at KDAY, they honed their material in beatnik coffeehouses at night. Within weeks of arriving in California, Burns and Carlin put together an audition tape and created The Wright Brothers, a morning show on KDAY in Hollywood. They formed a comedy team and after successful performances at Fort Worth's beat coffeehouse called The Cellar, Burns and Carlin headed for California in February 1960. In 1959, Carlin met Jack Burns, a fellow DJ at radio station KXOL in Fort Worth, Texas. CareerĬarlin (right) with singer Buddy Greco in Away We Go (1967) During his time in the Air Force, he had been court-martialed three times, and also received many nonjudicial punishments and reprimands. Labeled an "unproductive airman" by his superiors, Carlin received a general discharge on July 29, 1957. He also began working as a disc jockey at radio station KJOE, in nearby Shreveport. He was stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, Louisiana. Ĭarlin joined the United States Air Force and trained as a radar technician. Much later in life, he requested that a portion of his ashes be spread at the lake after his death. He spent many summers at Camp Notre Dame on Spofford Lake in Spofford, New Hampshire, and regularly won the camp's drama award. He briefly attended Bishop Dubois High School in Harlem and the Salesian High School in Goshen, New York. He went to The Bronx for high school but, after three semesters, Carlin was expelled from Cardinal Hayes High School at age 15. He attended Corpus Christi School, a Roman Catholic parish school of the Corpus Christi Church in Morningside Heights. He grew up on West 121st Street, in a neighborhood of Manhattan he said he and his friends called "White Harlem" because that "sounded a lot tougher than its real name" of Morningside Heights. Ĭarlin said that he picked up an appreciation for the effective use of the English language from his mother, though they had a difficult relationship, and he often ran away from home. Mary raised Carlin and his older brother, Patrick Jr., on her own. His parents separated when he was two months old because of his father's alcoholism. He named his character on The George Carlin Show O'Grady as an act of homage to her. He joked that they "dropped the O in the ocean on the way here". 
George Denis Patrick Carlin was born on May 12, 1937, in Manhattan, New York, Carlin recalled that his grandmother's maiden name was O'Grady, but it was changed to Grady before she reached the U.S. In 2004, he placed second on the Comedy Central list of "Top 10 Comedians of US Audiences". In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him second (behind Richard Pryor) on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time. In 2008, he was posthumously awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He was a frequent performer and guest host on The Tonight Show during the three-decade Johnny Carson era, and hosted the first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975.Ĭarlin's final HBO special, It's Bad for Ya, was filmed less than four months before his death from cardiac arrest. He often commented on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirized the excesses of American culture. From the late 1980s, Carlin's routines focused on sociocultural criticism of American society. The first of Carlin's 14 stand-up comedy specials for HBO was filmed in 1977. Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential American stand-up comics of all time, Carlin was dubbed by one newspaper to be "the dean of counterculture comedians". Pacifica Foundation, in which a 5–4 decision affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves. He and his " seven dirty words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S.
He was known for his black comedy and reflections on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. George Denis Patrick Carlin (– June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, philosopher, author, and social critic.
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