The Indian Sergeant ("You wit' the beads.In the 1960s, Carlin began appearing on television variety shows, notably The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show. 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. The comedy team worked there for three months, honing their material in beatnik coffeehouses at night. Within weeks of arriving in California in 1960, Burns and Carlin put together an audition tape and created The Wright Brothers, a morning show on KDAY in Hollywood. After successful performances at Fort Worth's beat coffeehouse, The Cellar, Burns and Carlin headed for California in February 1960 and stayed together for two years as a team before moving on to individual pursuits. In 1959, Carlin and Jack Burns began as a comedy team when both were working for radio station KXOL in Fort Worth, Texas. Labeled an "unproductive airman" by his superiors, Carlin was discharged on July 29, 1957. He did not complete his Air Force enlistment. He was stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, Louisiana.ĭuring this time he began working as a disc jockey on KJOE, a radio station based in the nearby city of Shreveport. He later joined the United States Air Force and was trained as a radar technician. Carlin had a difficult relationship with his mother and often ran away from home. After three semesters, at the age of 15, Carlin involuntarily left Cardinal Hayes High School and briefly attended Bishop Dubois High School in Harlem. He was raised by his mother, who left his father when Carlin was two months old. Ĭarlin grew up on West 121st Street, in a neighborhood of Manhattan which he later said, in a stand-up routine, he and his friends called "White Harlem", because that sounded a lot tougher than its real name of Morningside Heights. Carlin was of Irish descent and was raised a Roman Catholic. 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.Ĭarlin was born in Manhattan, the second son of Mary Beary, a secretary, and Patrick Carlin, a national advertising manager for the New York Sun. His final HBO special, It's Bad for Ya, was filmed less than four months before his death.Ĭarlin placed second on the Comedy Central cable television network list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians, ahead of Lenny Bruce and behind Richard Pryor. He often commented on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirized the excesses of American culture. In the 1990s and 2000s, Carlin's routines focused on the flaws in modern-day America.
The first of his 14 stand-up comedy specials for HBO was filmed in 1977. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5–4 decision by the justices affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves. Carlin and his " Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Ĭarlin was noted for his black humor as well as his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor, and author, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.
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