George Carlin

He surfed atop a stand-up comedy tsunami for almost 50 years, mastering all its forms - television, stage, publishing, everything except his ultimate youthful ambition of film. Read More

When he was 12 and growing up in Morningside Heights, George Carlin would overhear phrases from neighborhood toughs such as "longhair f***ing music p****" and "burly loudmouthed c*********," and loved them so much he kept them in a notebook. Read More

So it might come as a surprise to some that the long-haired comedian was once a conservative Republican. Read More

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In celebration of George Carlins new book Last Words Comedians Susie Essman, Michael Ian Black, Jeffrey Ross, Richard Belzer, and George Wendt, reflect on Carlin and his influence. Read More

I was conceived in a damp, sand-flecked room of Curley's Hotel in Rockaway Beach, New York. Read More

Five years later, Carlin was 100 pages along, only up to age 6 and beginning to realize that if he lived another five years (not all that likely given that he'd already suffered a few heart attacks), his book would be at least a thousand pages long. Read More

Weird Al lists the nine most underrated funny songs. Read More

As our excerpt proved, George Carlin's final memoir, "Last Words," is just as bitingly hilarious as his stand-up. Read More

The riled-up, curmudgeonly commentator he played to such hilarious effect onstage was shot through with an intelligence that, like no other, got under the skin of the American Dream. Read More