Amoeba Music

By Tony Goldmark

Hardly a single comedian or comedy fan of the last thirty or forty years could deny George Carlin’s truly incredible influence and importance in the development and evolution of comedy in the twentieth century. Over the course of over a dozen HBO specials and dozens of albums, Carlin practically re-invented the art form of stand-up comedy, treating it less as a delivery system for crowd-pleasing jokes than as a medium in which to voice well-worded outrage, flavored with equally heavy dollops of absurdism and nihilism. Carlin doesn’t mince words, he strengthens them, punctuating their meaning to the greatest extreme possible, reminding us all that comedy isn’t worth doing unless you’re pushing... Read More

City Of Origin:

New York City, New York, United States

Genre:

Comedy, Standup Comedy, Spoken Word, Literature

Birthdate:

05/12/1937

Death date:

06/22/2008