Exclusive: November is George Carlin Month

Tabloid Baby pal Jeff Abraham sends us this exclusive news:

NOVEMBER IS GEORGE CARLIN MONTH

NEW BLU-RAY, DVD & CD Releases from the Legendary Comedian
FINAL HBO SPECIAL IT’S BAD FOR YA MAKES BLU-RAY & DVD DEBUT (November 25)
LOST ALBUM CARLIN ON CAMPUS MAKES CD DEBUT (November 4)

“I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn
and cross it deliberately.”

--George Carlin

Having just celebrated his 50th Anniversary in show business last year and the recipient of the forth-coming Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on November 10th, legendary comedian George Carlin is once again providing to be the necessary voice in the world of comedy.

On November 25th, MPI Home Video is proud to announce the release of It’s Bad For Ya, Carlin’s Emmy nominated 14th and final HBO special from March 2008 on Blu-ray and DVD. It’s Bad For Ya features Carlin’s noted irreverent and unapologetic observations on topics ranging from death, religion, patriotism and big business to the pungent examinations of modern language and the “decrepit state of the American culture.” Blu-ray suggested retail is $24.98 and $19.98 for the DVD.

It’s Bad For Ya also includes a 30 minute featurette titled “Too Hip For the Room,” which is a wonderfully candid interview conducted by The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation’s Archive of American Television program where Carlin speaks about his early influences, philosophy, comedic style, major career milestones, and his legacy.

Carlin said of It’s Bad For Ya, “Doing new stuff is a point of pride with me. I can't do old material; I would feel like a failure. People may not consider it so, but stand-up comedy is one of the performing arts, and artists are supposed to grow and evolve over time. Through the years, my technique has sharpened, my writing has improved and even my observations have grown richer.”

And without question did comedian George Carlin grow as an artist. And now fans of Carlin will be able to examine that evolution with the November 4th CD debut release of CARLIN ON CAMPUS from Laugh.com. Long out of print since its 1984 LP release, CARLIN ON CAMPUS features such classic routines: Cars and Driving, An Incomplete List of Impolite Words and of course, Baseball and Football.

CARLIN ON CAMPUS was the first title released by the comedian on his own label Eardrum Records whose motto was ‘Stick It In Your Ear’ in 1984 and should not be confused with his 4th HBO special of the same name as the material on the original LP was different. Suggested retail is $12.98

During his half century career, Carlin starred in an unprecedented 14 HBO specials spanning four decades and released 22 solo albums (18 stand-up albums and 4 audio books), which have been nominated for Grammy Awards ten times and taken home the coveted prize four times.

And for the complete Carlin enthusiast; George Carlin: All My Stuff, a DVD box set of all the comedians' previous HBO specials, is also available from MPI Home Video.

Carlin will always remain part of the popular lexicon as his "Seven Dirty Words" routine were the subject of the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5-4 decision by the justices affirmed the government's right to regulate spoken-word performances on the public airwaves.

Carlin was never afraid to push the comic envelope and make audiences laugh and think. In turn, George Carlin influenced generations of comedians from Jerry Seinfeld to Chris Rock who all site him as an inspiration and “whose shoulders in turn the next generations of comedians will stand on.”

TMZ exposes itself with George Carlin posting

The crass simpleton headline about the death of genius comedian George Carlin on the corporate porn-pushing gossip site TMZ.com is not the same headline that the mental deficient pinheads had posted originally. That one demonstrated that they'd been admonished by their corporate overlords and AOL and Time Warner for making fun of the passings of accomplished Hollywood stars, as well as their utter lack of pop culture knowledge or any sense of the true celebrity chain of command:

George Carlin headlining in Heaven.

Anyone who's ever cracked a People magazine would know that Carlin was one of the world's leading misanthropic atheists, so "Heaven" would not be the likely place for him to be appearing with a celestial microphone.

In any case, the regular weekday web team, their banana hammocks tucked away til next weekend, obviously saw many news reports highlighting his routine on the "The Seven Words You Can't Say On Television" (on the screens at the gym), realized it was safe to slip into the vulgarity mode that Harvey Levin's sewage site is well known for ("Prince William Pitches A Tent" or "Former Celtic Has No Pot of Gold to Pee In," anyone?).

But though they changed the headline, they did not change the URL of the story, which still reads

http://www.tmz.com/2008/06/23/
GEORGE-CARLIN-HEADLINING-IN-HEAVEN/

Carlin's death was announced by Jeff Abraham

The New York Times:

George Carlin, the Grammy-Award winning standup comedian and actor who was hailed for his irreverent social commentary, poignant observations of the absurdities of everyday life and language, and groundbreaking routines like 'Seven Words You Can Never Use on Television,' died in Los Angeles on Sunday, according to his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He was 71.

The cause of death was heart failure, according to Mr. Abraham.


Reuters:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71. Carlin, who had a history of heart and drug-dependency problems, died at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PDT (2 a.m. British time) after being admitted earlier in the afternoon for chest pains, spokesman Jeff Abraham told Reuters.

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