George Carlin dropped out of high school and later joined the US Air Force, where he was court-martialled three times. He worked as a disk jockey before receiving an honorable discharge, then started a comedy team with Jack Burns (later of Burns & Schreiber). After the duo broke up, Carlin's solo stand-up career was successful, and he became famous on TV as a dorky-looking, suit-wearing, straight-laced comedian, appearing often on the Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas talk shows. At the time, instead of airing reruns all summer, the networks ran "summer replacement series", and Carlin was a writer and regular on the summer shows Kraft Summer Music Hall in 1966 and Away We Go in 1967. His TV bits included the hippie-dippie weatherman, while in nightclubs Carlin perfected his wildly popular "Seven words you can't say on TV" (shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits) and evolved a counterculture image. Within a few years he was dropping acid, snorting coke, and arrested at Summerfest in Milwaukee for indecent language on stage.
[1] Saint John's Hospital, Santa Monica, CA.
Father: Patrick Carlin (ad salesman, b. 1888, d. 1945 heart attack)
Mother: Mary Unk (b. 1895, d. 1984)
Brother: Patrick Carlin Jr. (writer, The George Carlin Show)
Wife: Brenda Hosbrook Carlin (m. 3-Jun-1961, d. 11-May-1997 liver cancer)
Daughter: Kelly Carlin-McCall (writer, b. 15-June-1963)
Wife: Sally Wade (m. Jun-1998, until his death)
High School: Cardinal Hayes High School, Bronx, NY (expelled)
Hollywood Walk of Fame 1555 Vine Street
Expelled from School
Obscenity
unknown detox facility
Heart Attack (three, one in 1982)
Hernia Operation (1969)
Angioplasty
Irish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Alcoholism, Marijuana, Cocaine
TELEVISION
Shining Time Station (US) Mr. Conductor (1991-93)
The George Carlin Show George O'Grady (1994-95)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (Jan-2018) · Himself
Zeitgeist (1-Jun-2007) · Himself [VOICE]
Happily N'Ever After (5-Jan-2007) [VOICE]
Cars (14-Mar-2006) [VOICE]
George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing (5-Nov-2005) · Himself
Tarzan II (14-Jun-2005) [VOICE]
The Aristocrats (Jan-2005) · Himself
Jersey Girl (26-Mar-2004) · Bart Trinke
Scary Movie 3 (20-Oct-2003) · Architect
George Carlin: Complaints and Grievances (17-Nov-2001) · Himself
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (24-Aug-2001) · Hitchhiker
Dogma (12-Nov-1999)
George Carlin: You Are All Diseased (6-Feb-1999) · Himself
Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time (9-Aug-1998) · Himself
Streets of Laredo (12-Nov-1995)
George Carlin: Jammin' In New York (11-Mar-1992) · Himself
The Prince of Tides (25-Dec-1991) · Eddie Detreville
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (19-Jul-1991)
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (17-Feb-1989)
Outrageous Fortune (30-Jan-1987)
Americathon (10-Aug-1979) · Narrator
Car Wash (22-Oct-1976) · Taxi Driver
With Six You Get Eggroll (7-Aug-1968) · Herbie Fleck
Official Website:
http://www.georgecarlin.com/
Rotten Library Page:
George Carlin
Author of books:
Brain Droppings (1997)
Napalm & Silly Putty (2001)
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
Last Words (2009, memoir, with Tony Hendra)
AKA George Denis Carlin