Bleep! Bleep! George Carlin To Receive Mark Twain Humor Prize

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A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago
Published 6/18/2008 by Adam (noreply@blogger.com) at A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago
... The 2008 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor will be awarded to George Carlin in a ceremony to be held on November 10, 2008. Let's watch Carlin talk about ...

George Carlin Passes Away at 71
Published 6/23/2008 by William Goss at Cinematical
... ", a routine which brought him to Washington, D.C. in order to tangle with the U.S. Supreme Court back in 1978... and yet, earlier this week, the Kennedy Center offered him reason to return to the nation's capital three decades after the fact, when they were to honor him this November with their annual Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy. ...

Robert S. McElvaine: George Carlin: An Irish Mensch
Published 6/24/2008 by Robert S. McElvaine at Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
... News of the death of George Carlin has left my eyes wet and reddened. Only last Wednesday, I awoke to the happy news on the front page of the Style section in the Washington Post that George had been named by the Kennedy Center as the winner of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in humor. I immediately sent him a congratulatory e-mail in which I said, "No one deserves this award more than you. You're a credit to your race!" ...

: George Carlin: An Irish Mensch
Published 6/24/2008 at Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
... News of the death of George Carlin has left my eyes wet and reddened. Only last Wednesday, I awoke to the happy news on the front page of the Style section in the Washington Post that George had been named by the Kennedy Center as the winner of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in humor. I immediately sent him a congratulatory e-mail in which I said, "No one deserves this award more than you. You're a credit to your race!" ...