@#$%^&*!!!
It's time to blurt out all those forbidden filthy words, legendary comedian George Carlin has died.
Fast, quick and sudden... the way he lived.
He died last night at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica of heart failure at age 71. Hollywood has long loved Carlin as a gentle and considerate man. But what he did to fight censorship over the airwaves on radio and television is the legacy he leaves behind for the entertainment and media biz.
His infamous "Filthy Words" routine reached all the way to the US Supreme Court...and this autumn he would be the 11th person inducted into the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ pantheon of humor, and receive this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
I will miss him. He was this generation's Lenny Bruce...the best of the best.
Richard Pryor and George Carlin single-handedly revolutionized stand-up comedy in the ’70s.
"What happened was: Richard had a heart attack. Then I had I had a heart attack. Then Richard burned himself up, and I said, "**** that! I'm having another heart attack!""
"You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic."
"Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money."
-- George Carlin
