Thursday, June 22, 2023 marks the 15-year anniversary of the death, at age 71, of Grammy-winning comedian George Carlin.
He was born May 12, 1937, in New York, New York. (Carlin and my late father had the same birthday.)
Carlin’s first wife, Brenda [Hosbrook], died at age 57 in 1997 (Brenda Carlin dies at 57). His father, Patrick (1888–1945), died in the year Carlin turned 8. His mother, Mary, had a lengthy lifespan, born in 1896 and died in 1984. His older brother, Patrick Jr., born in 1931, died last year in his early-90s.
A year after Brenda’s death, Carlin married comedy writer Sally Wade, his widow.
George and Brenda Carlin’s daughter, Kelly, turned 60 on June 15. A part of her career has been that of a radio show host as well as a writer. She won an Emmy last year, in the category Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special, for the HBO [Max] documentary on her father, George Carlin's American Dream.
Carlin was the first host of then-NBC’s Saturday Night (now-Saturday Night Live) on October 11, 1975.
He received six prime-time Emmy-nominations. Three of them were for Outstanding Individual Performance in variety specials George Carlin: Jammin’ in New York (1992), George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy (1997), and George Carlin: You Are All Diseased (1999). Those three specials were among 14 he did for HBO.
Carlin won five Grammys for comedy recordings (different named categories). Those prized were: FM and AM (1972); George Carlin: Jammin’ in New York (1993); Braindroppings (2001); Napalm & Sillyputty (2002); and It’s Bad for Ya! (2008, awarded posthumously).
I will be leaving this with some content by the late comedian. He had a strong sense of who—and how—we are as a people…in a nation which should not be described as enlightened.
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