Seven Dirty Words_ The Life and Crimes of George Carlin - James Sullivan [121]
10 “Let’s get out of here, Pat”: Interview, Archive of American Television
10 “The Irish call it the curse”: Interview, Archive of American Television
10 “We ran for four years”: Interview, Archive of American Television
11 “all these As that I never got in school”: Carlin on Comedy (audio recording), Laugh.com, 2002.
11 “The thing is, I never really had issues”: T. J. English, “George Carlin Is Still Tossing Out the Good Stuff,” Irish America (June/July 2006).
11 “I had to fight her off ”: Interview, Archive of American Television
12 “a man’s salary”: “What I’ve Learned: George Carlin,” Esquire (January 2002).
12 “wonderfully alive and vibrant”: Interview, Archive of American Television
12 “Home alone after school”: “Proust Questionnaire: George Carlin,” Vanity Fair (May 2001).
13 “a man bored with sinning”: Evan Esar, Esar’s Comic Dictionary (Harvest House, 1943), 69, 100, 113.
13 Mad “was magical, objective proof to kids”: Tony Hiss and Jeff Lewis, “The ‘Mad’ Generation,” New York Times Magazine, July 31, 1977.
13 “a way of thinking about a world”: Robert Boyd, “Born Under a Mad Sign,” Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2007.
14 “That was my family”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
14 “There aren’t any Huck Finns in radio”: Gerald Nachman, Raised on Radio (University of California Press, 2000), 212.
15 “You can count on the thumb of one hand”: Nachman, Raised on Radio, 98.
15 “Fifty percent of what I write”: Nachman, Raised on Radio, 105.
16 “Our original premise”: Nachman, Raised on Radio,125.
16 “I was a hip kid”: Carlin, Brain Droppings, 224.
16 “They took things that were nice and decent”: Interview by Marc Cooper, The Progressive (July 2001).
16-17 “that one really got my attention”: Interview, Archive of American Television
17 “like a flower [to] the sun”: Interview, Archive of American Television
17 “I was impressed, not that he was an admiral”: A&E Biography: George Carlin: More Than 7 Words (2000).
18 “To laugh was to mock heaven”: Barry Sanders, Sudden Glory: Laughter as Subversive History, (Beacon Press, 1995), 129.
20 “That was her big thing”: A&E Biography: George Carlin.
21 “It was called ‘How Do You Spend Your Leisure Time?’”: Sam Merrill, “Playboy Interview: George Carlin,” Playboy (January 1982).
22 “The older I got, the more apparent it became”: Merrill, “Playboy Interview.”
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25 “I’d make fun of the authority figures”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
26 “fly over the area”: Appearance on Dennis Miller Live (HBO), January 13, 1997.
27 “a voluntary nigger”: Mark Goodman, “George Carlin Feels Funny,” Esquire (December 1974).
27 “They would plant cultures”: Tony Hendra, Going Too Far: The Rise and Demise of Sick, Gross, Black, Sophomoric, Weirdo, Pinko, Anarchist, Underground, Anti-Establishment Humor, (Dolphin/Doubleday, 1987), 161-62.
28 “colorful, reachable, human”: George Carlin, “An Old Underdog Finds Himself on Top,” New York Times, October 12, 1986.
28 “When my tech sergeant expressed his displeasure”: Merrill, “Playboy Interview.”
29 “I left my gun on the ground”: Merrill, “Playboy Interview.”
31 “I grew up with real rhythm and blues”: “George Carlin: How Radio Changed My Life,” Harp (September/October 2007).
31 “nothing short of a revolution”: Hendra, Going Too Far, 169.
32 “I had to play that”: Dean Johnson, “At 55, Carlin’s Sharp Wit Keeps on Cutting,” Boston Herald, December 11, 1992.
33 “I was staying at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba”: Dick Lochte, “Natty and the Beanbag: Burns and Schreiber Owe a Lot to a Taxicab,” TV Guide, August 18-24, 1973.
35 “one last chance at me”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
36 “the most successful of the new sickniks”: “The Sickniks,” Time, July 13, 1959.
36 “Shelley Berman couldn’t do Mort Sahl’s act”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
37 “In my home Westbrook Pegler”: Hendra, Going Too Far, 163.
37 “At that time George was fairly conservative”: Richard Zoglin,