George Carlin 1937-2008, Farewell to the Class Clown

by Scott Beale on June 22, 2008 · 16 comments

Fuck! George Carlin is no longer with us. He died of heart failure at the age of 71 at around 6pm PDT today in Santa Monica. George is scheduled to receive this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on November 10th.

Goodbye my friend, you were a huge inspiration.

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1 adam jackson June 22, 2008 at 11:00 pm

Wow! George Carlin was very young for heart problems.

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2 Brads Blog June 22, 2008 at 11:55 pm

George Carlin was really awesome and funny live. I will really miss his humor.

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3 mikl-em June 23, 2008 at 12:14 am

did you ever notice everybody else’s stuff is shit, but your shit is STUFF!?!?

Shit!

Um, and Carlin had survived at 3 heart attacks before. It’s pretty amazing he made it as long as he did.

here’s a really cool interview from a while back…
http://www.motherjones.com/arts/qa/1997/03/outspoken.html

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4 Ricardo Melo June 23, 2008 at 2:28 am

Shit…
Now I’ll never have a change to see him live!

He will be terribly missed. But he’s with the “big electron” now!

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5 kaspar June 23, 2008 at 5:16 am

I already miss that dirty old man. He was a great inspiration, to say the least…

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6 John Hell June 23, 2008 at 10:42 am

Dang.

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7 Scott Fornwall June 23, 2008 at 10:47 am

Hey George, I hope you can go screw with god’s head now!

I love you, man!

You always made me laugh, even when no one else could.

We will miss you…

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8 Holly McCarty June 24, 2008 at 5:53 pm

Thank you for being an inspiration, a strong voice and a teacher. You are terribly missed.

XOXOXO – Shamu the Fucker Whale

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