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LOS ANGELES - Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71.
Carlin, who had a history of heart and drug-dependency problems, died at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PDT after being admitted earlier in the afternoon for chest pains, spokesman Jeff Abraham told Reuters.
Known for his edgy, provocative material, Carlin achieved status as an anti-Establishment icon in the 1970s with stand-up bits full of drug references and a routine called “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television.” A regulatory battle over a radio broadcast of the routine ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the 1978 case, Federal Communications Commission vs. Pacifica Foundation, the top U.S. court ruled that the words cited in Carlin’s routine were indecent, and that the government’s broadcast regulator could ban them from being aired at times when children might be listening.
Carlin’s comedic sensibility often came back to a central theme: humanity is doomed.
“I don’t have any beliefs or allegiances. I don’t believe in this country, I don’t believe in religion, or a god, and I don’t believe in all these man-made institutional ideas,” he told Reuters in a 2001 interview.
Carlin, who wrote several books and performed in many television comedy specials, is survived by his wife Sally Wade, and daughter Kelly Carlin McCall.
I didn't even realise he'd lived as long as he had.
__________________ Deux hommes font une promenade amicale. L'un des deux porte un parapluie à son bras.
Il se met à pleuvoir. L'homme n'ouvre pas son parapluie et l'autre lui demande pourquoi.
- Parce que ça ne servirait à rien, lui répond son ami. Il est plein de trous.
- Alors, pourquoi l'as-tu pris?
- Parce que je ne pensais pas qu'il pleuvrait.
man, that guy was pure gold.
i remember when his wife brenda passed away. he went on letterman like a month after and talked about her a little at the end. i was pregnant at the time and cried and cried and cried. i remember my bff calling and asking why i was crying and i was like 'george carlin' and he immediately thought i was just being an emotional pregnant lady and was insulted by one of carlin's jokes.
this is very very sad news. rest in peace, cannonball.
''tell me why, whhhhyyy, that most of the people against abortion are people you wouldn't wanna fuck in the first place!''
''if you're pre-born you're fine, if you're pre-school you're fucked! conservatives dont give a shit about you until you reach military age, then, you're fine!''
i also want to remember him this way:
i want kevin smith to write something about him, right now
Ok so I just called basically everyone I knew crying.....I am seriously broken up over this...it's like how I was when Kurt Vonnegut died all over again.....Carlin is the only comedian that has ever made my laugh so hard and for so long...till my stomach hurt and till I couldn't cry no more...I am so upset right now ugh.
What a fucking shock!!!
Rock out with your cock out
