- Comedian George Carlin's 'Last Words'
- During his 50-year career, irreverent comedian George Carlin stood in front of his audiences, questioning, condemning, and cutting through what he called "middle class crap." Carlin's performances were often rants against authority and…
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- 11/18/2009
- George Carlin's 'Last Words' is a colorful tome
- "Last Words," by George Carlin, with Tony Hendra (Free Press, $26.99) In 1987, when he was 50 years old, George Carlin decided the time had come for an autobiography from the groundbreaking comedian who had famously said "The Seven Words…
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- 11 hours ago
Staten Island Advance- George Carlin autobiography reads like one of his rollicking…
- In 1987, when he was 50 years old, George Carlin decided the time had come for an autobiography from the groundbreaking comedian who had famously said “The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” Five years later, Carlin was 100 pages…
- Everett Herald
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- 11 hours ago
- George Carlin: The Last Words of America's Greatest Comedian
- For half a century, somewhere in America, night in, night out, George Carlin stood on a stage, raging, berating, sniping, griping, purring questions, snarling answers, kicking holes in the polyester pants of hypocrisy, puking down the nice…
- Huffingtonpost.com
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- 11/16/2009
- George Carlin's "Last Words"
- 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 ...
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- 1 day ago
- Last Words A Memoir
- In the posthumous semiautobiography "Last Words," Carlin candidly guides the reader ... after the comedian's death in June 2008 at age 71, Hendra fashioned from the notes recorded over a 10-year period this scattershot, vaguely unfinished…
- San Francisco Chronicle
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- 11 hours ago
San Francisco Chronicle- Editor’s Choice
- Last Words by George Carlin with Tony Hendra; Free Press, 294 pages ($26.99). You had to see one of those late-life George Carlin specials on HBO to fully understand why his fellow stand-up comedians worshipped him. Carlin was putting the…
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- 11/15/2009
- Best Books of 2009, Airport Edition
- A few writers received an unexpected bookstore boost today as they nabbed spots on Hudson Booksellers' Best Books of the Year list. The list will earn these writers some coveted placement in the company's bookstores, reaching the most…
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- 4 hours ago
Mediabistro.com- The Spike Jones Show - The Best of Spike Jones
- An accomplished musician, Spike was a true innovator - whose comedic madness was light years ahead of his time - directly influencing such iconoclasts as Frank Zappa, Ernie Kovacs, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Stan Freberg and George Carlin. From…
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- 9 hours ago
TVShowsOnDVD.com- The best comedy albums of the decade
- The ’00s will likely be remembered as the era “alternative comedy” broke. After the boom and bust of stand-up in the ’80s and the distinctly Seinfeld-ian ’90s, a new generation of smartasses arrived to stretch the limits and help redefine…
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- 11/16/2009
