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GEORGE CARLIN CDS UPDATE
This is the month of February update of this page.
"George's Best Stuff," featuring highlights from his nine HBO specials. With the Aspen Comedy Festival, which included the special " GeorgeĬarlin: 40 Years of Comedy." He released a 90-minute video tape entitled HBOĭevoted an entire week to George Carlin specials, in conjunction
In 1997, Carlin celebrated 40 years in show business,Ģ0 years of HBO specials, and his 60th birthday. That concert was released in September 1996. In Town," which was nominated for a Cable Ace Award. Stage of the famed Paramount Theater in New York City for the taping of Twenty-seven shows were produced before itsĬancellation one year later. In January 1994, " The George Carlin Show" Playing the part of Mister Conductor on the critically acclaimedĬhildren's show, "Shining Time Station," seen nationally on In 1992, Carlin earned two Emmy nominations In 1984, Carlin published his first book, "SometimesĪ Little Brain Damage Can Help," and in 1987, he was awarded a star In New York," from that show won him the 1993 Grammy Award for In New York." He also received an Emmy nomination for that Taped "On Location: George Carlin at USC," a special at theĬalifornia campus which initiated an unprecedented string of nine HBOĬomedy concert broadcasts, including the highly regarded "Carlin atĬarnegie," taped in New York in 1982. On cable television, specifically Home Box Office. Ten of his "original"Ĭarlin gained wide exposure for his stand-up routines It was the first of four successive gold albums that Carlin recordedĭuring the first half of the 1970s. & AM," an album which won a Grammy Award after going gold. In 1972, a recording contract led to the release of Identity became more and more associated with the counterculture. September for saying the word "shit." From then on, his comic That year culminated in his being fired from the Frontier Hotel in
GEORGE CARLIN CDS SERIES
A series of incidents with audiences and club owners However, the "new" GeorgeĬarlin didn't sit well with the middle-class audiences nor with the The irreverent tone returned to his material, he grewĪ beard, and began to dress more casually. Many of Carlin's out-of-step attitudes and opinions, and he began to "counterculture," a large, ready-made audience which shared The people who had inhabited the folkĬlubs and coffee houses of the early '60s were now the Restrictions no longer applied, his acting career had been put on hold,Īnd the country was changing. Him feel that he wasn't quite ready for acting, and so he concentratedīecause of the influence television was having on hisĬareer, Carlin's material grew bland and safe and he increasingly feltīored and dissatisfied with his material. However, a guest shot on "That Girl" and a part in theĭoris Day film "With Six You Get Egg-Roll" only served to make In 1967 heĪnd Put-Ons" and began the transition to acting, his original '60s, making 58 television appearances in '65 and '66 alone. Was George and Brenda's only daughter, Kelly.Ĭarlin burst onto the television scene in the mid "Hippy Dippy Weatherman" were all born during this period, as "The Indian Sergeant," "Wonderful Wino" and Ironically, it was in the folk/jazz setting that he developed the firstīits that got him on television, the ultimate establishment medium. The more outspoken, irreverent routines that were closer to his heart. During this period, George met Brenda Hosbrook, whom heġ963, Carlin branched out to folk clubs and coffee houses where theĪudiences were more progressive, and he focused on the mainstream and Burns and Carlin stayed together for two years,Įventually making a first appearance on "The Tonight Show" Newsman Jack Burns, he started developing comedy routines for anĮventual nightclub act. Point for Carlin came in Fort Worth, Texas (1959) on KXOL. Louisiana) in July 1956 at the age of 19 while serving in the USAF.
GEORGE CARLIN CDS PROFESSIONAL
George Carlin died of heart failure Sunday, Jat age 71.Ĭarlin began his professional career in radio (KJOE in Shreveport,