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George Carlin Opened SNL With a Sports Joke
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsNBC re-aired the first Saturday Night Live last night in memory of the show's first host, George Carlin. Here's the first minute of his opening monologue:Carlin made one of his trademark play-on-words jokes regarding the hashmarks on a football field, and then he said he thinks Americans like football because it's a game of land acquisition. That monologue is a reminder that Carlin was, as King Kaufman wrote, one of the best sports humorists around. Carlin was remembered last week for his brilliance in skewering politics and religion and language, but sports were also a major source of ...
Silent Laughter: George Carlin Dies at 71
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyIf you want to know what a moronic word "lifestyle" is, all you have to do is realize that in a technical sense, Atilla the Hun had an active outdoor lifestyle. – George CarlinA legend passed on yesterday. From AFP: Irreverent US comedian George Carlin, who became known as a voice of the 1970s counterculture and was one of the country's best known funny men, died on Sunday aged 71, US media reported. The Grammy award winner, whose career spanned five decades, died of heart failure, his publicist Jeff Abraham told the New York Times. Carlin had a history of heart problems and passed away ...
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