Comedian George Carlin dies at 71

Anti-establishment icon gained fame with his ‘Seven Dirty Words’ routine

AP


SANTA MONICA, Calif. - George Carlin, the frenzied performer whose routine “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television” led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, has died.

Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. He was 71.

“He was a genius and I will miss him dearly,” Jack Burns, who was the other half of a comedy duo with Carlin in the early 1960s, told The Associated Press.

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Farewell forever to the hippie dippy weatherman...

I just watched a 5-min. video of his stand-up routine, Baseball vs. Football. [found it on Google, from some Chicago outlet] It's hilarious. Not a single dirty word in it.

I can't believe how he memorizes all those words and says them all so fast.

He's an intelligent comic.

[I posted this once but can't find it now. Really; there's not a single dirty word on that video.]

He was one of my favorite comic's ever. But its always interesting how these comedian's think that they have to use bad language, when they are just as funny without.

pkrause

His G rated stuff was belly up and down laughter also. He was brilliant. I found out at work that he died. So Sad if he died without JESUS! 8:o(

Yeah, he really made people think. I liked the one about the homeless and the golf courses. And the one about the Gulf War.

And the one about Mohammed Ali, and the one about the Vietnam War, and the one about Pro-Lifers..... There are so many.