Laughing Matters: Carlin's Legacy
George Carlin
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1h 20m
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 conversations with Norman Lear, Judd Apatow, Sebastian Maniscalco, Lewis Black, Jim Norton and George Carlin’s daughter Kelly Carlin, along with tributes from Tim Allen, Elayne Boosler, Bill Engvall, Kate Flannery, Judah Friedlander, Judy Gold, Kathy Griffin, Penn Jillette, Maz Jobrani, Jay Leno, Richard Lewis, George Lopez, Mark Normand, Russell Peters, Colin Quinn, Brian Regan, Alex Winter, Steven Wright, Alan Zweibel, and more!
Support the National Comedy Center
Make a Donation
The National Comedy Center, the nation’s official cultural institution and non-profit museum dedicated to comedy — and home to the George Carlin Archive— is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides education on the comedic arts in the form of commentary and contextualization of its bodies of work—telling the vital story of comedy in America across all eras and genres of the art form.
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 conversations with Norman Lear, Judd Apatow, Sebastian Maniscalco, Lewis Black, Jim Norton and George Carlin’s daughter Kelly Carlin, along with tributes from Tim Allen, Elayne Boosler, Bill Engvall, Kate Flannery, Judah Friedlander, Judy Gold, Kathy Griffin, Penn Jillette, Maz Jobrani, Jay Leno, Richard Lewis, George Lopez, Mark Normand, Russell Peters, Colin Quinn, Brian Regan, Alex Winter, Steven Wright, Alan Zweibel, and more!
Support the National Comedy Center
Make a Donation
The National Comedy Center, the nation’s official cultural institution and non-profit museum dedicated to comedy — and home to the George Carlin Archive— is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides education on the comedic arts in the form of commentary and contextualization of its bodies of work—telling the vital story of comedy in America across all eras and genres of the art form.
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Journey
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...
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Process
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...
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Words
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...
