Seven Dirty Words_ The Life and Crimes of George Carlin - James Sullivan [123]
90 “I found out I can’t do this shit”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
90 “A man who tries to be everything but himself”: Esar, Esar’s Comic Dictionary, 4.
91 “The music was protest”: Unmasked with George Carlin (XM Radio), 2007.
93 “nearly as admirable for potent simplicity”: Paul Krassner, The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race: The Satirical Writings of Paul Krassner (Seven Stories Press, 1996), 15.
94 “rule-bender and lawbreaker since first grade”: Quoted in Paul Krassner, “Remembering George Carlin,” Huffington Post, June 27, 2008.
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98 “The crime wave is not a subject for levity”: George Carlin, FBI file, released January 23, 2009 (per request no. 1123179-001).
98 “an individual named George Carlin”: FBI file.
98 “it was obvious that he was using”: FBI file.
99 “thinks that the Director is one of the greatest”: FBI file.
99 “tonight our mouths fell open”: FBI file.
99 “What do we know of Carlin?”: FBI file.
100 “That’s the kind of sick material”: Lenny Bruce, “The Tribunal,” The Lenny Bruce Originals Volume 2 (sound recording) (Fantasy, 1991).
100 “I was opening for—try not to smile”: Hendra, p. 251.
100 “O.J. Simpson has already received”: George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, (Hyperion, 2004), 207.
101 “I was more or less flabbergasted”: Hendra, Going Too Far, 252.
100-102 “Presumably the local constables wink”: “Legit Profanity a Problem to Brit Café Comics,” Variety, November 4, 1970.
102 “New York’s heart-quarters for great stars”: Mickey Podell-Raber with Charles Pignone, The Copa: Jules Podell and the Hottest Club North of Havana (Collins, 2007), 93.
102 “The Copa was a tough room”: Nachman, Raised on Radio, 26.
102 “If Jules wanted attention”: Podell-Raber with Pignone, The Copa, 116.
103 “I hated that fuckin’ place”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
103 “I’d say, ‘I don’t know if you’re familiar’”: Esquire
103 “He would never fire me, that fuck”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
103 “It was very artistic, very cinematic”: Zoglin, Comedy at the Edge, 18.
104 “Three weeks I had of that”: Berger, Last Laugh, 48.
104 “swinging from the chandeliers”: Zoglin,Comedy at the Edge, 47.
104 “My days of pretending to be as slick”: Pryor and Gold, Pryor Convictions, 93-94.
105 “dazzling states of heightened awareness”: “LSD,” Time, June 17, 1966
105 “It opened my eyes”: Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shalin, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond (Grove Weidenfeld, 1985), 181.
106 “Those drugs served their purpose”: Merrill, “Playboy Interview.”
106 “He has the ability to couch them in jargon”: Variety, July 29, 1970.
107 “come up a modish contemporary fellow”: Variety, September 9, 1970.
107 “I’d wake up in the morning”: Merrill, “Playboy Interview.”
108 “Virginia Graham was a real shit-stirrer”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
108 “They did the job for me”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
108 “I never went over to Don Adams’s house”: Stu Werbin, “How George Carlin Showed His Hair,” Rolling Stone, August 17, 1972.
109 “I sold grass in the mailroom on the side”: David Rensin, The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up (Ballantine, 2003), 113.
112 “George made a gesture”: Berger, Last Laugh, 205.
112 “I’ve only had three people walk offstage”: Dan Plutchak, “George Carlin’s First and Last Show in Lake Geneva,” Walworth County Today, July 15, 2008.
112 “where they walk toward you”: Nachman, Raised on Radio, 404.
112 “Hefner is saying to me”: Werbin, “How George Carlin Showed His Hair.”
113 “routine about materialism in American society”: “Comic George Carlin Much Too Successful in ‘Arousing’ Audience,” Variety, December 2, 1970.
113 “it never occurred to me”: Diahann Carroll with Ross Firestone, Diahann! An Autobiography (Little, Brown, 1986), 60.
115 “Everyone had come there to see George Carlin”: Berger, Last Laugh, 206-7.
116 “a nice, new, mainstream car”: Interview,