George Carlin, Irreverent Comedian, Dies at 71

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George Carlin: 1937 - 2008
Published 6/23/2008 by mrbeaks at Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
Beaks here... Shit. Piss. Fuck. Cunt. Cocksucker. Motherfucker. Tits. Right now, this is just a placeholder to pass along the bullshit news that George Carlin has succumbed to heart failure at the age of 71 . We're absorbing the shock along with you. While it's true that Carlin was not a young man, and that he'd be the first to tell us to go fuck ourselves for getting overly sentimental about his death... well, you cranky dead old fuck, we're going to eulogize you whether you like it or not. You meant too much to us. Drew's writing, I'm writing... it's just hard to know where to start. For now, please use the talkback to say whatever you need to say.

George Carlin
Published 6/23/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Simon Crowe) at Mostly Movies
Comedian George Carlin has died at age 71. (NY Times) That early success and celebrity, however, was as dinky and hollow as a gratuitous pratfall to Mr. Carlin. “I was entertaining the fathers and the mothers of the people I sympathized with, and in some cases associated with, and whose point of view I shared,” he recalled later, as quoted in the book “Going Too Far” by Tony Hendra, which was published in 1987. “I was a traitor, in so many words. I was living a lie.” In 1970, Mr. Carlin discarded his suit, tie, and clean-cut image as well as the ...

Comedian George Carlin Dies of Heart Faliure at 71
Published 6/23/2008 by John Del Signore at Gothamist
... Carlin’s career, which spanned almost six decades, included 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, three books, four Grammy Awards and, in later years, voice-over work on Thomas the Tank Engine and the Pixar movie Cars. He also hosted Saturday Night Live’s debut episode in 1975. The tireless comic was working up until his death, having performed at The Orleans in Las Vegas just last weekend. But he had a history of heart trouble, and the Times was ready with a long obituary. ...

Heaven Just Got A Little More George Carlin
Published 6/23/2008 at Videogum
... is reporting (oh, NYT now, too) that George Carlin has passed away at the age of 71. As a comedian, he followed in the footsteps of Lenny Bruce, confronting audiences with taboo language and rattling the cage of the status quo. I should probably have been his publicist, rattling the cage of the status quo, what am I talking about? He also appeared regularly on the Tonight Show, and was the first host of Saturday Night Live. Perhaps most notably he played the time-traveling mentor Rufus in the Bill and Ted movies. ...

RIP George Carlin
Published 6/23/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Jesse Thorn) at The Sound of Young America
It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway: George Carlin is one of the tiny handful of performers who truly defined what standup comedy is. He also inspired many to consider comedy as a way to make people think more, not less. ...

RIP: George Carlin
Published 6/23/2008 by Liz at Glitterati Gossip
The brilliant, challenging comedian George Carlin passed away Sunday at the age of 71. His influence on the world of stand-up comedy can't be overstated, not to mention his influence on dirty words. Everybody's been posting the seven dirty words in tribute, and I do love the seven dirty words, but it's some of Carlin's oldest work that I like the best. Here's a wonderful clip from the 70s, which, like everything Carlin ever did, is very much NSFW.

George Carlin, R.I.P.
Published 6/23/2008 at Yahoo! Buzz Log
Good-bye, George Carlin. We will miss your scathing wit, hoarse delivery, and never-wavering contrariness. Without you, seven little words may never have been more than that, and audiences would have left comedy gigs unscathed by your rat-a-tat release. Death, selfishness, oxymorons, hypocrisy, and humankind's general lousiness never seemed so funny. Since Carlin died on Sunday, hundreds of articles and obituaries have inundated the Buzz. In Search, demand for the comedian's name spiked more than 8,000%. The boost landed him in our top five movers, sandwiched between "living lohan" and ...