Seven Dirty Words_ The Life and Crimes of George Carlin - James Sullivan [122]
38 “How did you two meet?”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
39 “no troublemakers, no queers”: Joe Nick Patoski, “The King of Clubs,” Texas Monthly (April 2000).
40 “We became very inventive and creative”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
41 “We’re not gonna park cars”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
41 “the leading Negro and foreign-language station”: John A. Jackson, Big Beat Heat: Alan Freed and the Early Years of Rock & Roll (Schirmer Books, 1991), 296.
41 “trying anybody and everybody”: Jackson, Big Beat Heat, 296-97.
42 “We were insane”: Goodman, “George Carlin Feels Funny.”
43 “We took positions”: George on George (interview program), 2003.
44 “He didn’t have a lot of connections”: Archive of American Television interview.
46 “a duo of hip wits”: Hendra, Going Too Far, 163.
47 “We didn’t know the legendary quality”: Hendra, Going Too Far, 163.
47 “We felt that was an omen”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
48 “Brenda and I clicked on all levels”: Merrill, “Playboy Interview.”
48 “a night light to the bathroom”: Jack Paar, P.S. Jack Paar: An Entertainment (Doubleday, 1983), 100.
3. Attracting Attention
52 “My mother would say”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
52 “Some really great toilets”: Phil Berger, The Last Laugh: The World of the Stand-Up Comics (Morrow, 1975; Limelight Editions, 1985), 138.
54 “We didn’t work very hard”: Merrill, “Playboy Interview.”
56 “I can remember doing the supper show”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
56 “Since I have always been able to detect”: Steve Allen, More Funny People (Stein and Day, 1982), 104.
57 “I was good and juiced”: Sound recording included in Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover, The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of an American Icon (Sourcebooks, Inc., 2002).
57 “sorta grabbed me by the collar”: Collins and Skover, Trials of Lenny Bruce, 147.
58 “Someday everybody’s going to know your name”: Appearance on 20/20 (ABC), February 5, 1999.
59 “an extravaganza of patchwork”: Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One, (Simon & Schuster, 2005), 10-12.
60 “What kind of place you running here?” Berger, Last Laugh, 142.
60 “In 1963, the Village was alive”: Richard Pryor with Todd Gold, Pryor Convictions and Other Life Sentences (Pantheon Books, 1995), 70.
61 “You break it down by talking about it”: Collins and Skover, Trials of Lenny Bruce, 47-51.
62 “It’s one of them numbers”: Collins and Skover, Trials of Lenny Bruce, 203.
64 “The future seems so precarious”: “The Sickniks.”
64 “I wasn’t very well-educated”: Goodman, “George Carlin Feels Funny.”
65 “Jester and savant must both”: Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation (Macmillan, 1964), 28.
65 “spontaneous flash of insight”: Koestler, Act of Creation, 45.
65 “The jester makes jokes, he’s funny”: Jay Dixit, “George Carlin’s Last Interview,” Psychology Today, www.psychologytoday.com
67 “Anything that was challenging verbally”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
67-68 “It was a standard fish-out-of-water gimmick”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
69 “I didn’t get a lot of attention”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
4. Values (How Much Is That Dog Crap in the Window?)
77 “There were a couple of monologues they cut”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
79 “One last four-letter word”: Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, (Playboy Press, 1966), 240.
80 “Lenny’s perception was magnificent”: Judy Stone, “Carlin: Lenny Bruce Was His Idol,” New York Times, May 28, 1967.
80 “let me know there was a place to go”: Appearance on Make ’Em Laugh (PBS), 2009.
85 “high-fidelity ear”: “Pop of the News,” Newsweek, January 9, 1967.
85 “were dead. Just dead people”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
89 “I became known as a reliable prime-time variety show comedian”: Interview, Archive of American Television.