![]() Just days before his death, it was announced that George Carlin would be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Basically how he started to express the person he really was and use his comedy to talk about what was really important to him. In this incredible 2007 interview Carlin reflects on his whole career and specifically on how he transitioned from a safe life as a straight-laced mainstream comedian to an outspoken, controversial rebel. Here he performs a short poem about hair as well as sharing something very very intimate with the audience. Here’s another appearance of a beardless George from a 1969 episode of What’s My Lineīy 1972 Carlin had grown out his hair and beard and was overtly counter-cultural in both his material and appearance. Note this was in an era when the host of The Tonight Show smoked cigarettes on the job, and comedians could imitate stoned out hippy meteorologists but had to look clean cut themselves. One of his earliest appearances was in 1966, on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. ![]() George Carlin was born 74 years ago this week (he passed away in 2008). ![]()
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