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carlin s occupation foole which was broadcast one afternoon on radio station wbai the fcc cited pacifica for violating regulations that prohibit broadcasting obscene material the supreme court of the united states upheld the fcc action by a vote of 5 to 4 ruling that the routine was indecent but not obscene and that the fcc had authority to prohibit such broadcasts during hours when children were likely to be among the audience 44 45 the controversy increased carlin s fame he eventually expanded the dirty words theme with a seemingly interminable end to a performance finishing 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 webpages organized by subject and embracing his incomplete list of impolite words 46 on stage during a rendition of this routine carlin learned that his previous comedy album fm am had won a grammy midway through the performance on the album occupation foole he can be heard thanking someone for handing him a piece of paper he then exclaims shit and proudly announces his win to the audience 47 over his career carlin was arrested seven times for reciting the seven dirty words routine 48 carlin hosted the premiere broadcast of nbc s saturday night live on october 11 1975 in accordance with his request he did not appear in its sketches 49 the next season 1976 77 he appeared regularly on cbs television s tony orlando dawn variety series 50 carlin unexpectedly stopped performing regularly in 1976 when his career appeared to be at its height for the next five years he rarely performed stand up although it was at this time that he began doing specials for hbo as part of its on location series carlin did 14 specials including 2008 s it s bad for ya 51 he later revealed that the first of his three heart attacks occurred during this layoff period 52 his first two hbo specials aired in 1977 and 1978 53 54 1980 1987 hbo and film edit in 1981 carlin returned to the stage releasing a place for my stuff and returning to hbo and new york city with the carlin at carnegie tv special which was filmed at carnegie hall and aired during the 1982 83 season carlin continued doing hbo specials every year or two over the following decade and a half all of carlin s albums from this time forward are from his hbo specials 55 56 he hosted snl for the second time on november 10 1984 this time appearing in several sketches 57 carlin began to achieve prominence as a film actor with a major supporting role in the 1987 comedy hit outrageous fortune starring bette midler and shelley long playing drifter frank madras he poked fun at the lingering effect of the 1960s counterculture citation needed 1988 1989 changes in material and tone edit beginning in 1988 carlin evolved and adopted both a new appearance and a new direction as he did in his first change of direction in the early 1970s carlin blended his old and new styles by bringing in politics and disdain for society with nihilist humor while using some of the previous material direction of pointing out the odd things people all do and continued his fascination with language but with disdain for its current uses by society this led to darker material and an aggressive tone over the next two decades 58 1989 1997 tv series and more films edit in 1989 he gained popularity with a new generation of teens when he was cast as rufus the time traveling mentor of the title characters in bill ted s excellent adventure he reprised the role in the sequel bill ted s bogus journey 1991 and in the first season of the cartoon series in 1991 carlin had a major supporting role in the film the prince of tides which starred nick nolte and barbra streisand as the gay neighbor of the main character s suicidal sister 59 that same year carlin became the second american narrator of the children s television series thomas friends narrating the first through the fourth season 60 he played mr conductor on the pbs show shining time station until 1996 replacing ringo starr on both programs 60 according to britt allcroft who developed both shows on the first day of the assignment carlin was nervous about recording his narration without an audience so the producers put a stuffed teddy bear in the booth 60 carlin s jammin in new york a new hbo special in 1992 highlighted the directional change he had been honing the last few years critics applauded the show and he continued down this path of more serious subjects and nihilistic tone for the remainder of his life carlin opined that this show was his favorite 61 in 1993 carlin began a weekly fox sitcom the george carlin show playing new york city taxicab driver george o grady the show created and written by the simpsons co creator sam simon ran for 27 episodes through december 1995 62 in last words carlin wrote of the george carlin show i had a great time i never laughed so much so often so hard as i did with cast members alex rocco chris rich tony starke there was a very strange very good sense of humor on that stage but i was incredibly happy when the show was canceled i was frustrated that it had taken me away from my true work 63 page needed carlin was honored at the 1997 aspen comedy festival with a retrospective george carlin 40 years of comedy hosted by jon stewart his first hardcover book brain droppings 1997 sold nearly 900 000 copies and spent 40 weeks on the new york times best seller list 64 2000 2008 final hbo specials edit carlin at a book signing for brain droppings in 2004 carlin later said that there were other more pragmatic reasons for abandoning his acting career in favor of standup in an interview for esquire magazine in 2001 he said because of my abuse of drugs i neglected my business affairs and had large arrears with the irs and that took me eighteen to twenty years to dig out of i did it honorably and i don t begrudge them i don t hate paying taxes and i m not angry at anyone because i was complicit in it but i ll tell you what it did for me it made me a way better comedian because i had to stay out on the road and i couldn t pursue that movie career which would have gone nowhere and i became a really good comic and a really good writer 65 in 2001 carlin was given a lifetime achievement award at the 15th annual american comedy awards in 2003 representative doug ose introduced a bill h r 3687 to outlaw the broadcast of carlin s seven dirty words 66 including compound use including hyphenated compounds of such words and phrases with each other or with other words or phrases and other grammatical forms of such words and phrases including verb adjective gerund participle and infinitive forms the bill omitted tits but included asshole not one of carlin s original seven words it was referred to the house judiciary subcommittee on the constitution in 2004 and was tabled 66 carlin in april 2008 carlin performed regularly as a headliner in las vegas but in december 2004 his run at the mgm grand las vegas was terminated after an altercation with his audience after a poorly received set filled with dark references to suicide bombings and beheadings carlin complained that he could not wait to get out of this fucking hotel and las vegas he wanted to go back east he said where the real people are he continued people who go to las vegas you ve got to question their fucking intellect to start with traveling hundreds and thousands of miles to essentially give your money to a large corporation is kind of fucking moronic that s what i m always getting here is these kind of fucking people with very limited intellects an audience member shouted stop degrading us carlin responded thank you very much whatever that was i hope it was positive if not well blow me he was immediately fired and soon thereafter his representative announced that he would begin treatment for alcohol and prescription painkiller addiction on his own initiative 67 68 after his 13th hbo special on november 5 2005 life is worth losing 69 carlin toured his new material through the first half of 2006 topics included suicide natural disasters cannibalism genocide human sacrifice threats to civil liberties in the u s and his theory that humans are inferior to other animals in the 2006 pixar animated film cars carlin voiced fillmore an anti establishment hippie vw microbus with a psychedelic paint job and the license plate 51237 carlin s birthday in m dd yy format 70 in 2007 he voiced the wizard in happily n ever after his last film carlin s last hbo stand up special it s bad for ya aired live on march 1 2008 from the wells fargo center for the arts in santa rosa california 71 themes included american bullshit rights death old age and child rearing he repeated the theme to his audience several times throughout the show it s all bullshit and it s bad for ya 72 personal life edit in august 1960 while touring with comedy partner jack burns in dayton ohio carlin stopped at a roadside diner where he met waitress brenda hosbrook 3 they began dating and were married at her parents home in dayton on june 3 1961 73 their only child kelly marie carlin was born june 15 1963 and would later become a radio host 3 carlin and hosbrook renewed their wedding vows in las vegas in 1971 3 their marriage was often marred by his cocaine use and her alcoholism the latter of which worsened when carlin s mother came to stay with them and would secretly pour hosbrook drinks while derogating him 3 when hosbrook was hospitalized due to her drinking she told carlin that she would not return home if his mother was there he immediately went home booked his mother a flight to new york and took her to the airport 3 the couple soon addressed their addiction issues the marriage improved so much that kelly later said it felt like it had been rebooted 3 hosbrook died of liver cancer on may 11 1997 one day before her husband s 60th birthday 3 74 carlin met comedy writer sally wade six months after brenda s death and said it was love at first sight but told her he was hesitant to act on his feelings so soon after being widowed 75 he discussed needing to be alone potentially for up to a year before being ready to date again 3 they had no contact for eight months and she assumed he had moved on but then he called to ask her out 3 they wed in a private unregistered ceremony on june 24 1998 and remained married until carlin s death 76 77 in 2008 carlin said that using cannabis lsd and mescaline had helped him cope with life 13 he also said several times that he had battled addiction to alcohol cocaine and vicodin 78 and spent some time in a rehab facility in 2004 79 during the taping of his stand up special life is worth losing on november 5 2005 he said he had been sober for 341 days 80 after being raised as a catholic carlin outspokenly rejected religion frequently criticizing and mocking it in his routines 81 when asked if he believed in god his response was no there s no god but there might be some sort of an organizing intelligence and i think to understand it is way beyond our ability 82 death edit carlin had a history of heart problems 83 84 including heart attacks in 1978 1982 and 1991 52 he also had an arrhythmia requiring an ablation procedure in 2003 a significant episode of heart failure in 2005 and two angioplasties on undisclosed dates 85 in the 2022 documentary george carlin s american dream jerry hamza carlin s manager from 1980 until his death said carlin underwent many heart surgeries in a short period toward the end of his life carlin s publicist jeff abraham said that he once lifted his shirt after coming to a gig from the hospital to show abraham his torso whereupon abraham said it looked like a science project 3 on june 22 2008 at age 71 carlin died from heart failure at saint john s health center in santa monica california 48 86 his death occurred one week after his final performance at the orleans hotel and casino in accordance with his wishes his body was cremated and his ashes scattered in front of various new york city nightclubs and over spofford lake in new hampshire where he had attended summer camp as an adolescent 87 his will stated that there was to be no funeral and that he wished only for his widow and daughter to host a small gathering at his home for loved ones to share stories of him 3 legacy edit awards and honors edit main article list of awards and nominations received by george carlin along with numerous other accolades carlin won five grammy awards and was nominated for six primetime emmy awards and two daytime emmy awards he received a star on the hollywood walk of fame 88 in january 1987 89 and was a recipient of the john f kennedy center for the performing arts s mark twain prize for american humor in 2008 citation needed influences edit carlin s influences included danny kaye 15 90 jonathan winters 15 lenny bruce 52 91 92 richard pryor 52 nichols and may 93 jerry lewis 15 52 the marx brothers 15 52 mort sahl 92 spike jones 52 ernie kovacs 52 and the ritz brothers 15 his daughter kelly said in 2022 that he took more acting roles in the latter half of his career because he never gave up on the danny kaye dream 3 comedians who have claimed carlin as an influence include adam ferrara 94 bill burr 95 chris rock 96 jerry seinfeld 97 louis c k 98 lewis black 99 jon stewart 100 stephen colbert 101 bill maher 102 103 liz miele 104 patrice o neal 105 colin quinn 106 steven wright 107 mitch hedberg 108 russell peters 109 bo burnham 110 jay leno 111 ben stiller 111 kevin smith 112 chris rush 113 rob mcelhenney 114 and jim jefferies 115 the carlin warning edit after carlin s seven dirty words routine and subsequent fcc v pacifica foundation supreme court ruling in 1978 broadcasters started to use the carlin warning to remind performers of the words they could not say during a live performance 116 tributes edit george carlin way in manhattan upon carlin s death in 2008 hbo broadcast 11 of his 14 hbo specials from june 25 to 28 including a 12 hour marathon block on the hbo comedy channel nbc scheduled a rerun of the first episode of saturday night live which carlin hosted 117 118 119 both sirius satellite radio s raw dog comedy and xm satellite radio s xm comedy channels ran a memorial marathon of carlin recordings the day after he died sirius xm satellite radio has since devoted an entire channel to carlin carlin s corner featuring all his comedy albums live concerts and works from his private archives 120 larry king devoted his june 23 show to a carlin tribute featuring interviews with jerry seinfeld bill maher roseanne barr lewis black carlin s brother patrick jr and his daughter kelly on june 24 the new york times printed an op ed piece on carlin by jerry seinfeld 121 cartoonist garry trudeau paid tribute in his doonesbury comic strip on july 27 122 a dedication from the laugh factory two days after carlin died four days before carlin s death the john f kennedy center for the performing arts 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