George Carlin - 17 albums (1966-2006)
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Genre: Stand-Up Comedy
George Dennis Carlin (born May 12, 1937 in New York, New York) is a Grammy-winning American stand-up comedian, actor, and author.

Carlin is especially noted for his irreverent attitude and his observations on language, psychology, and religion along with many taboo subjects. In fact, Carlin and his “Seven Dirty Words” comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5-4 decision by the justices affirmed the government’s right to regulate Carlin’s act on the public airwaves.

George Carlin’s most recent stand up routines are primarily focused on attacking the flaws in modern-day America. He often takes on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirizes the excesses of American culture.

He is considered by many to be a successor to the late Lenny Bruce and was described by Comedy Central as the second greatest stand-up comedian of all time behind Richard Pryor.

Born in New York, George Carlin grew up on West 121st Street, in a neighborhood of Manhattan which he later said he and his friends called “White Harlem”, because that sounded a lot tougher than its real name, “Morningside Heights”. “General Grant was one of my neighbors,” he would say later. He was raised by his mother, who left his father when Carlin was two years old. At age 14 Carlin dropped out of Cardinal Hayes High School and later joined the United States Air Force, training as a radar technician. He was stationed at Barksdale AFB in Bossier City, Louisiana.

During this time he began working as a disc jockey on KJOE, a radio station based in the nearby city of Shreveport. He did not complete his Air Force enlistment. Labeled an “unproductive airman” by his superiors, Carlin was discharged on July 29, 1957. In 1959, Carlin and Jack Burns began as a comedy team when both were working for radio station KXOL in Fort Worth. After successful performances at Fort Worth’s beat coffeehouse, The Cellar, the two headed for California in February 1960 and stayed together for two years as a team before moving on to individual pursuits.

In the 1960s, Carlin began appearing on television variety shows, notably The Ed Sullivan Show. His most famous routines were:

• The Indian Sergeant (”You wit’ the beads… get outta line”)
• Stupid disc jockeys (”Wonderful WINO…”) — “The Beatles’ latest record, when played backwards at slow speed, says ‘Dummy! You’re playing it backwards at slow speed!’”
• Al Sleet, the “hippie-dippie weatherman” — “Tonight’s forecast: Dark. Continued dark tonight, turning to partly light in the morning.”
• Jon Carson — the “world never known, and never to be known”

Variations on the first three of these routines can be found on Carlin’s 1967 debut album, Take Offs and Put Ons, recorded live in 1966 at The Roostertail in Detroit, Michigan

Eventually, Carlin changed both his routines and his appearance. He lost some TV bookings by dressing strangely for a comedian of the time, wearing faded jeans and sporting a beard and earrings at a time when clean-cut, well-dressed comedians were in vogue. Using his own persona as a springboard for his new comedy, he was presented by Ed Sullivan in a performance of “The Hair Piece,” and quickly regained his popularity as the public caught on to his sense of style.

In this period he also perfected what is perhaps his best-known routine, “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television”, recorded on Class Clown, a routine which offended sGeorge Carlinome. Carlin was arrested in 1972 at Milwaukee’s Summerfest and charged with violating obscenity laws after performing this routine. In 1973, a man complained to the FCC that his son had heard a later, similar routine, “Filthy Words”, from Occupation: Foole, broadcast one afternoon over WBAI, a Pacifica Foundation FM radio station in New York City. Pacifica received a citation from the FCC, which sought to fine Pacifica for allegedly violating FCC regulations which prohibited broadcasting “obscene” material. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the FCC action, by a vote of 5 to 4, ruling that the routine was “indecent but not obscene”, and the FCC had authority to prohibit such broadcasts during hours when children were likely to be among the audience. F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U.S. 726 (1978).

The controversy only increased Carlin’s fame (or notoriety). Carlin eventually expanded the dirty-words theme with a seemingly interminable end to a performance (ending with his voice fading out in one HBO version, and accompanying the credits in the Carlin at Carnegie special for the 1982-83 season), and a set of 49 web pages organized by subject and embracing his “Incomplete List Of Impolite Words”. Ironically, the court documents contain a complete transcript of the routine, perhaps validating what Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said: “You cannot define obscenity without being obscene.”

Read more of Carlin’s biography HERE…

Albums included in this compilation:

1966: Take-Offs and Put-Ons

1971-1976: The Little David Years (Box Set)
- Disc 1: FM and AM (1971)
- Disc 2: Class Clown (1972)
- Disc 3: Occupation: Foole (1973)
- Disc 4: Toledo Window Box (1974)
- Disc 5: An Evening with Wally Lando featuring Bill Slaszo (1975)
- Disc 6: On The Road (1976)
- Disc 7: Bonus Shit (1999)

1981: A Place For My Stuff

1986: Playin’ With Your Head

1988: What Am I Doing In New Jersey?

1990: Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics

1992: Jammin’ In New York

1996: Back In Town

1999: You Are All Diseased

2001: Complaints and Grievances

2006: Life is Worth Losing

Get them here:

Little David Years box set:

Part 1 | Part 2

All other albums:

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

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