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George Carlin Bio
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George CarlinAmerican stand-up comedian and actor George Dennis Carlin is best known for his "Seven Dirty Words You Can’t Say on Radio or Television" routine in 1972, which got him arrested for violating obscenity laws. The broadcast later became the center of a heated debate on censorship and legislation over profanity.
A self-professed atheist and avid cocaine user, Carlin was born into a Roman Catholic home on May 12, 1937, in New York City. He claims that his tenure as an altar boy formed his negative attitude toward religion.
He dropped out of high school at the age of fourteen to enlist in the army where he was trained as a radar technician. He ended up being stationed in Bossier City, Louisiana, and moonlighted as a disc jockey at a local radio station.
Carlin was discharged from the army on July 29, 1957, because he was considered by his superiors to be an "unproductive airman."
When he was eighteen he teamed up with Texas newscaster Jack Burns on a comedy routine for a morning radio show. The two appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson before they split up. Carlin continued work as a stand-up comic and continued to make numerous appearances on The Tonight Show as well as The Merv Griffin Show.
During the early 1960s Carlin began performing as a moderately successful stand-up comic on the Las Vegas circuit. He kept his routines fairly conventional until the mid-1970s when he re-invented his image and adopted a more vulgar comedy routine. He also changed his dress style, grew a beard and long hair, and began to wear earrings.
In 1961 he married Brenda Hosbrook and remained married to her until her death on May 11, 1997. She died one day before Carlin’s sixtieth birthday of complications from liver cancer. The two had one child, daughter Kelly, born in 1963.
When Carlin changed his style, it took a while for his audiences to get used to him. Initially he lost some bookings. But his popularity soared especially after his controversial and shocking "Seven Dirty Words" broadcast. On October 11, 1975, he became the first host of NBC-TV’s Saturday Night Live.
From 1976 to 1981 Carlin drastically cut back his stand-up performances. No one knew why because he seemed to be at the height of his career. It was later revealed that he had suffered a heart attack during this time.
Carlin was back in the public eye in 1981 appearing in an assortment of programs including narrating a children’s show. During the 1990s he switched his look again and began wearing exclusively black in all of his comedy routines. He was inducted into the Comedy Hall of Fame in November of 1994.
In 2001 Carlin was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 15th Annual American Comedy Awards. In 2004 he was ranked #2 on Comedy Central’s 100 greatest stand-ups. The same year he voluntarily entered a drug rehabilitation facility to treat his dependency on alcohol and painkillers.
In late 2005 he was hospitalized for heart failure and pneumonia. In 2006 he provided the voice of Fillmore the VW Microbus in the animated movie Cars, alongside Paul Newman, Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Cheech Marin, and Tony Shaloub. YUDDY |
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