George Carlin was one of my All-Time favorite comedians. I saw him perfrom LIVE numerous times over the years. In fact, I still have one of his concert T-shirts. It is one of my all-time favorites. On the back, it reads.... "Simon Says Go Fuck Yourself".... Classic!!from broadcastingcable.com
"George Carlin, the countercultural comedian whose routine “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” remains a touchstone in the ongoing debate over broadcast indecency, died of heart failure Sunday, according to published reports. He was 71."
It was Carlin’s Seven Words routine from 1972 -- a meditation on certain words that can be alternately acceptable or offensive, depending on their context -- that touched off a regulatory debate in the 1970s when the New York radio station WBAI broadcast it the following year.
George Carlin produced 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials (his latest was this past March titled "It's Bad For Ya"), three books, a couple of TV shows and appeared in several movies.
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