George Carlin's birthday

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• 1 - Nick

  Jul 19, 2004 at 2:42 am

  i have been looking all over the place for george carlin's home address and i cant find anything that has it and if you know could you e-mail me it i would like that alot thank you

• 2 - Bruna Vesco

  Aug 09, 2004 at 6:08 pm

  My son has been a George Carlin fan for many years now and has made numerous attempts to mail him a letter and get an autographed picture of George, but to no avail his mail keeps coming back to him. I really would like to get this for him, as I know it would really make him the happiest boy alive. He is 15 years old and the love of my life and it broke my heart to see the letters he wrote and put so much time into come back to him. Please SOMEONE help me and make my son's life brighter and give me something to go on here.

• 3 - Karen LaFreniere

  Nov 24, 2004 at 1:35 pm

  Hi George - I know why I like your comments and material so much - it's because you and I share the same birthday that makes no sense at all well anyway, keep me laughing with your quirky insights on life and the people who live it. Thanks Karen

• 4 - Sallie O'Donnell

  Dec 03, 2004 at 8:40 pm

  I have just read a brilliant and touching piece George Carlin wrote following the recent death of his wife. I would like to e mail him to express my feelings. How can I do that? Sallie O'Donnell sallieo@bellsouth.net

• 5 - Mitch Scott

  Sep 02, 2005 at 12:38 pm

  Ditto to Sallie O'Donnell's inquiry

• 6 - Bob A. Booey

  Sep 02, 2005 at 1:41 pm

  Unfunny faux-hippie pseudo-rebel poseur.
  
  That is all.

• 7 - Eric Berlin

  Sep 02, 2005 at 1:44 pm

  Or brilliant groundbreaking master of words and usage and life-wisdom and vulgarity.
  
  And comedy.
  
  Depends on your point of view, I guess.

• 8 - georgecarlinsucks

  Sep 11, 2005 at 12:50 am

  George Carlin is a piece of shit on this planet. A true parasite. Hopefully
  it won't be long that he can not sputter out his crap any longer, of caring about the less fortunate and so on, what a pile of crap. I hope the IRS follows him all the way to his grave, the self centered bastard.
  Need to bury him with Bill Maher, they need to be in the same box

• 9 - Dave Nalle

  Sep 11, 2005 at 12:57 am

  I've seen Carlin in concert several times. He's always funny. He used to be a great voice for free thought and free expression, but in recent years he's become bitter and rather politicized and lost track of the willingness to question established thinking which used to be his hallmark. These days he's just going through the motions and filled with misdirected rage. He's coming to Austin and I don't plan to attend this year.
  
  Dave

• 10 - RogerMDillion

  Sep 11, 2005 at 1:53 am

  Oooo, that'll show him.

• 11 - Dave Nalle

  Sep 11, 2005 at 3:32 am

  No, but it will spare me some irritation, which matters more to me, really.
  
  Dave

• 12 - Brian

  Apr 23, 2009 at 10:03 pm

  some people need brain irrigation!

• 13 - Jet

  Apr 23, 2009 at 10:54 pm

  Okay you Carlin fans, there is the text of his "Seven words you can never say on television"
  
  Actually there were two versions of this, one from "Class Clown" and the other from "Occupation Foole" I actually have edited the two together on tape and listened to them repeatedly so many times in my car, that I can never get them out of my head, even this long after...
  
  so here it is, melted together taking the best from both versions...
  
  

  I was thinking about the curse words and the swear words, the cuss words and the words that you can't saaaay, that you're not supposed to say all the time, because some people are into words. They want to hear your words. Some guys like to record your words and sell them back to you if they can listen in on the telephone, write down what words you say. A guy who used to be in Washington, knew that his phone was tapped, used to answer, "Fuck Hoover, yes, go ahead."
  
  There are 400,000 words in the English language and there are 7 of them you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to 7. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outraaaaageous to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you 7, Baaaaaad Words.
  
  That's what they told us they were; remember?
  "That's a bad word!" No bad words, bad thoughts, bad intentions… and words.
  
  So… what are the ones you definitely couldn't say, ever, 'cause I heard a lady say bitch one night on television, and it was cool; like she was talking about, you know, ah, well, the bitch is the first one to notice that in the litter, Johnny. Right. And, uh, bastard you can say and hell and damn, so I have to figure out which ones you couldn't...ever and it came down to seven, but the list is open to amendment and in fact, has been changed, uh, by now, and a lot of people pointed things out to me… and I noticed some myself.
  
  The original seven words were, shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker mutherfucker and tits. Wow! ...and Tits doesn't even belong on the list. That is such a friendly sounding word. It sounds like a nickname, right? "Hey, Tits, come here, man. Hey Tits, meet Toots. Toots, Tits. Tits, Toots." It sounds like a snack, doesn't it? Yes, I know, it is a snack. I don't mean your sexist snack. I mean New Nabisco Tits!, and new Cheese Tits, Corn Tits, Pizza Tits, Sesame Tits, Onion Tits, Tater Tits. "Betcha Can't Eat Just One." That's true. I usually switch off. But I mean, that word does not belong on the list.
  
  Actually none of the words belong on the list, but you can understand why some of them are there. I'm not completely insensitive to people's feelings. I can understand why some of those words got on the list, like CockSucker and MotherFucker. Those are heavyweight words. There is a lot going on there. Besides the literal translation and the emotional feeling.I mean, they're just busy words. There's a lot of syllables to contend with. And those Ks, those are agressive sounds. They just jump out at you like "coCKsuCKer, motherfuCKer” It's like an assualt on you.
  
  Now where was I?… oh yeah.
  
  So anyway, those are the ones that will curve your spine, grow hair on your hands...and maybe even bring us, God help us, peace without honor... uhhhhhh what a burden! And now the first thing that we noticed was that word fuck was really repeated in there because the word mutherfucker is a compound word and it's another form of the word fuck. You want to be a purist-it doesn't really-it can't be on the list of basic words.
  
  Also, cocksucker is a compound word and neither half of that is really dirty. The word 'sucker'-that's merely suggestive and the word cock is a halfway dirty word, 50% dirty- dirty half the time, depending on what you mean by it. Uh, remember when you first heard it, like in 8th grade, you used to giggle. Remember the cock crowed three times." "Heyyyyyyy, the cock crowed three times! It's in the Bible! cock is in the Bible!" And the first time you heard about a cockfight? What? Huh? Naw. It's chickens, you know?
  
  Then you have the four letter words from the old Anglo-Saxon fame. Uh, shit and fuck. The word shit uh, is an interesting kind of word in that the middle class has never really accepted it and approved it. They use it like crazy but it's not really okay. It's still a rude, dirty, old kind of gushy word. They don't like that, but they say it, like, they say it like, a lady now in a middle-class home, you'll hear most of the time she says it as an expletive, you know, it's out of her mouth before she knows. She says, "Oh shit, Oh shit, oh shit If she drops something. "Oh, shit! I dropped the broccoli. shhhhhhit!"
  
  So! Now the word shit is okay for the man. At work you can say it like crazy. Mostly figuratively, "Get that shit out of here, will ya? I don't want to see that shit anymore. I can't cut that shit buddy. I've had that shit up to here. I think you're full of shit myself. He don't know shit from Shinola. You know that?"
  
  (I always wondered how the Shinola shoe polish people felt about that.)
  "Hi, I'm the new man from Shinola!"
  "Hi, how are ya? Nice to see ya. How are ya?"
  
  "Boy, I don't know whether to shit or wind my watch. Guess, I'll shit on my watch". "Oh, the shit is going to hit the fan." "Built like a brick shithouse." "Oh, he's up shit's creek. He's had it." Hot shit, holy shit, tough shit, eat shit. shit -eating grin. Uh, whoever thought of that was ill. "He had a shit-eating grin!" "He had a what?" shit on a stick. shit in a handbag. I always liked that. "He ain't worth shit in a handbag."
  
  …….."Shitty. He acted real shitty. You know what I mean? I got the money back, but a real shitty attitude." "Hey, he had a shitfit!" Wow! shit-fit. Whew! Glad I wasn't there. All the animals- Bullshit, horse shit, cow shit, rat shit, bat shit. First time I heard bat shit, I really came apart. A guy in Oklahoma, Boggs, said it, man. Aw, batshit! Vera reminded me of that last night. Snake shit, slicker than owl shit. Get your shit together. shit or get off the pot.
  
  I got a shitload full of them! I got a shit-pot full, all right. shit-head, shit-heel, shit in your heart, shit for brains, shit-face, hey. I always try to think how that could have originated; the first guy that said that. Somebody got drunk and fell in some shit you know. "Hey, I'm shit-face! shitface, today!"
  
  Anyway, enough of that shit
  
  The big one, the word fuck; that's the one that hangs them up the most. 'Cause in a lot of cases that's the very act that hangs them up the most. So, it's natural that the word would, uh, have the same effect. It's a great word, fuck, nice word, easy word, cute word, kind of. Easy word to say. One syllable, short u. fuuuuuck. Boom. Starts with a nice soft sound ffffff"fuh". Ends with a kuh. Right? A little something for everyone. Fu-ck. Good word.
  
  Kind of a proud word, too.
  "Who are you?"
  "I am FUCK! FUCK OF THE MOUNTAIN!"
  Tune in again next week to FUCK OF THE MOUNTAIN!
  
  It's an interesting word too, 'cause it's got a double kind of a life- personality- dual, you know, whatever the right phrase is. It leads a double life, the word fuck. First of all, it means, sometimes, most of the time- fuck! What does it mean? It means to make love. Right? We're going to make love, yeh, we're going to fuck, yeh, we're going to fuck yeh, we're going to make love. We're really going to fuck,yeh, we're going to make love. Right? And it also means the beginning of life, it's the act that begins life, so there's the word hanging around with words like love, and life
  
  ...and yet on the other hand, it's also a word that we really use to hurt each other with, man. It's a heavy. It's the one that you save toward the end of the argument. Right? You finally can't make out. "Aw, fuck you, man! I said, fuck you! Stupid fuck-fuck you and everybody that looks like you!"
  
  It would be nice to change the movies that we already have and substitute the word fuck for the word kill, wherever we could, and some of those movie cliches would change a little bit. "Mad fucker still on the loose!" "Stop me before I fuck again." "Fuck the ump, fuck the ump, fuck the ump, fuck the ump." "Easy on the clutch, Bill, you'll fuck that engine again."
  
  The other shit one was, "I don't give a shit." Like it's worth something, you know? "I don't give a shit." "Hey, well, I don't take no shit, you know what I mean? You know why I don't take no shit? 'Cause I don't give a shit. If I give a shit, I would have to pack shit. But I don't pack no shit cause I don't give a shit." "You wouldn't shit me, would you?" That's a joke when you're a kid with a worm looking out the bird's ass. "You wouldn't shit me, would you?" It's an eight-year-old joke but a good one.
  
  The additions to the list. I found three more words that had to be put on the list of words you could never say on television, and they were fart, turd and twat. those three. Fart, we talked about, it's harmless. It's like tits, it's a cutie word, no problem. Turd, you can say but who wants to, you know? The subject never comes up on the panel, so I'm not worried about that one.
  
  Now the word twat is an interesting word. TWAT "Heyyyy, right in the twat! Twat is an interesting word because it's the only one I know of, the only slang word applying to the, a part of the sexual anatomy that doesn't have another meaning to it. Like, ah, snatch, box and pussy all have other meanings, man. Even in a Walt Disney movie, you can say, "We're going to snatch that pussy and put him in a box and bring him on the airplane!" and everybody loves it. But the twat stands alone, man, as it should.
  
  And then there’s the two-way words. Ah, ass is okay providing you're riding into town on a religious feast day; You can't say, "Up your asssssss!" You can say stuff it. There are certain things you can say; its weird, but you can just come so close. Before I cut, I, uh, want to, ah, thank you for listening to my words, man, fellow, uh space travelers. Thank you man for tonight and thank you also.

  
  
  Rest in Peace George... we'll miss you