George Carlin

Trivia

• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Live Theatre at 1555 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
• Worked with Jack Burns on Los Angeles' KNX-AM in the morning as the Wright Brothers.
• Worked as a Disc Jockey at KXOL-AM 1360 in Fort Worth, Texas for nine months. He was hired on the spot by Program Director Bob Bruton. There he met newsman Jack Burns. They went on to work together as a comedy duo.
• Worked as a Disc Jockey at KJOE-AM Shreveport, Louisiana.
• Worked As a radio Disc Jockey in the North East of America.
• In 1983, he returned to Cardinal Hayes High School for the school's first Hall of Fame dinner-dance, and it was to honor Msgr. Stanislaus P. Jablonski. Jablonsik was the priest who told him that "maybe he should attend another school." (He did briefly and returned.) Although they were adversaries as Pricinple/Student they had a sense of respect for each other.
• Joined the U.S. Air Force as a radar technician.
• Spent years writing a one-man show that he planned to do on Broadway before his death. The working title was "Watch My Language" or "New York City Boy".
• Has many popular writings on the Internet being falsely attributed to him, such as the anonymous commentaries "I Am a Bad American" and "The Paradox of Our Time," along with several lists of one-liner jokes. Carlin states on his website that he did not write them, and "nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it came from one of my albums, books, HBO shows, or appeared on my website.
• Just before Christmas 2005, he experienced significant shortage of breath and other heart-related symptoms. On Christmas Day he entered Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills. During an eight-day stay he was treated for a lung infection and narrowed arteries. He received antibiotics and an angioplasty that included the placement of a double stent. The procedure was successful, but he was advised to take things slowly in the New Year.

Quotes

• "Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."
• "When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve."
• "If someone loves you and they leave and don't come back, it was never meant to be. If someone loves you and they leave and come back, set them on fire."
• "If acting was hard for me, I wouldn't do it, it is something that I like to do."
• "Most people are not particulary good at anything."