Over 20 comedic minds honor comedy legend George Carlin on his birthday, in support of the National Comedy Center. 

This program contains uncensored content. 

Featuring comedians, comedy writers, producers and friends who will reflect on Carlin’s art and long-standing influence, including conve...

Carlin’s comedic roots were in 1950s coffee houses and nightclubs, performing clean-cut humor with his partner, Jack Burns. Into the 1960s, propelled by the encouragement of peers like Lenny Bruce and Johnny Carson, Carlin evolved a new style that spoke to a more youthful audience, garnering accl...

Throughout his 50-year career, George Carlin meticulously recorded his thoughts and observations on thousands of small scraps of colored paper. “Every day I take a lot of notes,” Carlin explained. “They can be a sentence, a word, an idea, two things that connect or contrast, an afterthought, a ne...

From an early age, George Carlin was attentive to the rhythms and meanings of words – marveling at a perfectly placed adjective in a newspaper article or the virtuosic wordplay of his boyhood idol, the tongue-twisting comedian Danny Kaye. This lifelong fascination with language became a cornersto...

From an early age, George Carlin was attentive to the rhythms and meanings of words. This lifelong fascination with language became a cornerstone of his work, which assumed a cadenced, melodious form that was not unlike spoken word poetry. To achieve this effect, Carlin meticulously took notes; g...