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One Comic, Twice the Laughs
Published 6/24/2008 by Paul Farhi at washingtonpost.com - Movies
Two comic personalities seemed to coexist within George Carlin during his preposterously long and fertile career. Both Carlins could amuse and both could be trenchant, but each came at his target from wildly different angles.
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