Bad news people

[P.I.M.P.]

So sorry to have my first post here be very very bad news. Check out this link and you'll see what I'm talking about. :'(
http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/06/62841/index.html

[Sand84]

RIP     It has been a bad sunday....

[11Raptor]

Wow 

Michael

[socalrappy700]

Yeah, that blows.  I just heard about it on my way into work.  RIP George C.

[Peelz]

My favorite comedian ever.

from MSN:

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" routine, died of heart failure Sunday. He was 71.

Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Medical Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas.

Carlin constantly pushed the envelope with his jokes, particularly with the "Seven Words" routine. When he uttered all seven at a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested for disturbing the peace.

When the words were played on a New York radio station, they resulted in a Supreme Court ruling in 1978 upholding the government's authority to sanction stations for broadcasting offensive language.

"So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I'm perversely kind of proud of," he told The Associated Press earlier this year.

He produced 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, three books, a couple of TV shows and appeared in several movies. Carlin hosted the first broadcast of "Saturday Night Live" and noted on his Web site that he was "loaded on cocaine all week long."

He won four Grammy Awards, each for best spoken comedy album, and was nominated for five Emmy awards. On Tuesday, it was announced that Carlin was being awarded the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

When asked about the fallout from the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction," Carlin told the AP, "What are we, surprised?"

"There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body," he said. "It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have."

Carlin was born May 12, 1937 and grew up in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, raised by a single mother. After dropping out of high school in the ninth grade, he joined the Air Force in 1954. He received three court-martials and numerous disciplinary punishments, according to his official Web site.

While in the Air Force he started working as an off-base disc jockey at a radio station in Shreveport, La., and after receiving a general discharge in 1957, took an announcing job at WEZE in Boston.

"Fired after three months for driving mobile news van to New York to buy pot," his Web site says.

From there he went on to a job on the night shift as a deejay at a radio station in Forth Worth, Texas. Carlin also worked variety of temporary jobs including a carnival organist and a marketing director for a peanut brittle.

In 1960, he left with a Texas radio buddy, Jack Burns, for Hollywood to pursue a nightclub career as comedy team Burns & Carlin. He left with $300, but his first break came just months later when the duo appeared on the Tonight Show with Jack Paar. r Carlin said he hoped to would emulate his childhood hero, Danny Kaye, the kindly, rubber-faced comedian who ruled over the decade that Carlin grew up in — the 1950s — with a clever but gentle humor reflective of its times.

Only problem was, it didn't work for him.

"I was doing superficial comedy entertaining people who didn't really care: Businessmen, people in nightclubs, conservative people. And I had been doing that for the better part of 10 years when it finally dawned on me that I was in the wrong place doing the wrong things for the wrong people," Carlin reflected recently as he prepared for his 14th HBO special, "It's Bad For Ya."

Carlin's first wife, Brenda, died in 1997. He is survived by wife Sally Wade; daughter Kelly Carlin McCall; son-in-law Bob McCall; brother Patrick Carlin; and sister-in-law Marlene Carlin.

[Krandall]

Dang....

He was one of the comedy shows I wanted to see before I died...


R.I.P Man.

[Peelz]

that blows.

[Flynbyu]

Welcome aboard Pimp.

Carlin was one of the pioneers of stand up. Very funny guy.

He will be missed.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

George was hilarious.

One of the guys I worked with met him in the Tulsa airport. He was on a pay phone calling a fan and thanking her for a card she sent him. He was very nice, and talked with him for about ten minutes before his flight departed.

~Brian

[Peelz]

George was hilarious.

One of the guys I worked with met him in the Tulsa airport. He was on a pay phone calling a fan and thanking her for a card she sent him. He was very nice, and talked with him for about ten minutes before his flight departed.

~Brian

there was alot of intelligence in his crazy humor. My favorite was the idea to send mexican immigrants to Iraq to earn their citizenship, bring our guys home. Audience was laughing, but it was really not that far out there. IMO

Oh and the joke about white guys wearing their ball caps sideways. "knock it off!, you'll never be that cool!" I would wait patiently for the HBO specials to come out. Always hilarious.

[Flynbyu]

George was hilarious.

One of the guys I worked with met him in the Tulsa airport. He was on a pay phone calling a fan and thanking her for a card she sent him. He was very nice, and talked with him for about ten minutes before his flight departed.

~Brian

there was alot of intelligence in his crazy humor. My favorite was the idea to send mexican immigrants to Iraq to earn their citizenship, bring our guys home. Audience was laughing, but it was really not that far out there. IMO

Oh and the joke about white guys wearing their ball caps sideways. "knock it off!, you'll never be that cool!" I would wait patiently for the HBO specials to come out. Always hilarious.

Yep. The HBO stuff he did was awesome. The cameo he did in Jay and Silent Bob rocked.

~Brian

[Peelz]

George was hilarious.

One of the guys I worked with met him in the Tulsa airport. He was on a pay phone calling a fan and thanking her for a card she sent him. He was very nice, and talked with him for about ten minutes before his flight departed.

~Brian

there was alot of intelligence in his crazy humor. My favorite was the idea to send mexican immigrants to Iraq to earn their citizenship, bring our guys home. Audience was laughing, but it was really not that far out there. IMO

Oh and the joke about white guys wearing their ball caps sideways. "knock it off!, you'll never be that cool!" I would wait patiently for the HBO specials to come out. Always hilarious.

Yep. The HBO stuff he did was awesome. The cameo he did in Jay and Silent Bob rocked.

~Brian

+1 did you see his role in the movie "KARMA" Where he played dirtbag priest...good stuff there.

[ThisGuyAlex]

saw 2 of his shows live......sux.....my favorite comedian...

[Flynbyu]

Hopefully playing the preist didn't bite him in the ass in the after life.



~Brian

[Peelz]

Hopefully playing the preist didn't bite him in the ass in the after life.



~Brian