Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin
James Sullivan
Language: English
Pages: 280
ISBN: 0306819694
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Shalin, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond (Grove Weidenfeld, 1985), 181. 106 “Those drugs served their purpose”: Merrill, “Playboy Interview.” 106 “He has the ability to couch them in jargon”: Variety, July 29, 1970. 107 “come up a modish contemporary fellow”: Variety, September 9, 1970. 107 “I’d wake up in the morning”: Merrill, “Playboy Interview.” 108 “Virginia Graham was a real shit-stirrer”: Interview, Archive of American Television. 108
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The Tonight Show from 1962 until 1970. “They listed all the people who were submitted for those days, and they tried to put together a show that would be cohesive. They were all scared shitless of putting comedy on, because Paar was allegedly a comedian. . . . Paar was very hands-on, and he could make your life miserable.” If an act bombed, Schultz says, “He’d say, ‘Who’s responsible?’ He made everybody crazy.” Burns and Carlin went on with the Kennedy-Nixon bit. “It was very current and timely,
gathered up her boys and fled down the fire escape. Making their way through the back lots out to Broadway, they piled into a Packard owned by one of Mary’s brothers and headed out of town. When they returned, mother and sons moved from apartment to apartment in the neighborhood, trying to avoid confrontation with the boys’ father. “We ran for four years,” said Carlin. “I saw the fear in her when the doorbell would ring.” With four brothers living nearby and occasional escorts from sympathetic
you’re born, you get a ticket to the freak show, he said. “If you’re born in America, you get a front-row seat. And some of us get to write about it and talk about it.” Carlin “had an instinctive knowledge of how persuasion, propaganda, and influence work, from all directions, by all parties,” says Jello Biafra, former frontman for the punk-rock group Dead Kennedys. The comedian’s punk attitude—his insistence on telling his audience the truth as he saw it, regardless of its popularity—was ahead