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william-poy-lee's picture
Jun.23.2008
For those of us who love Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Mort Sahl, Chris Rock, and all other comedian warriors who loved all words and tolerated no hypocrisy, please honor the passing of George Carlin who has gone off to that great, open, free stage in the sky. Take a few minutes and watch his famous...
bob-david-calhoun's picture
Jun.23.2008
Is this shaping up to be a shitty week or what? Both Cody's and George Carlin went to the mat for the First Amendment one way or another. Cody's was firebombed in 1989 for displaying frequent Redroom cover boy Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses." Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" was...
jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Jun.23.2008
The man who said those seven words you can’t say on television is dead today. George Carlin, one of the people who changed how we saw comedy died yesterday. When I heard about it this morning I felt sad. Mostly because he was so funny, and he did another routine I loved. I think it was on the first...