George Carlin wasn't funny. At least, that's what HE said the first time I spoke with him. It was sometime in the early '80s and he was a major star. He had made the transition from Al Sleet, the ...

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In the comedy world, it's a commonly held belief that there's a dark side to being funny — and Kelly Carlin is living proof. The daughter of the late comic genius George Carlin has just written a ...

If George Carlin were still around, he’d probably have something brutally honest (and probably hilarious) to say about the state of the world. But even though he’s gone, his voice is everywhere today ...

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Legendary comedian George Carlin passed away in 2008, but as you can watch firsthand in HBO Max’s new two-part documentary series, “George Carlin’s American Dream,” his material on issues ranging from ...

A new George Carlin special is out. But it's not really George Carlin, the brilliant and audacious comedian who died in 2008, just days after he was named to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American ...

According to published reports, George Carlin’s estate settled right of publicity and copyright claims relating to an AI-scripted comedy special using a “sound-alike” of George Carlin which performed ...

George Carlin’s enduring comedic legacy inspired Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio to make HBO’s upcoming documentary about the counterculture icon, whose observations remain eerily topical nearly 14 ...

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said Monday that it would go ahead with plans to present its Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to the late George Carlin, making him the first ...

The Kennedy Center says it will posthumously award the Mark Twain Prize to the late George Carlin at this year’s annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Carlin, who died of heart failure June 22, ...

The pair say they held nothing back in their two-part Emmy-nominated HBO film — which is exactly what Carlin himself would have wanted. By Tyler Coates Awards Editor JUDD APATOW I started listening to ...