Seven Dirty Words_ The Life and Crimes of George Carlin - James Sullivan [124]
116 “You were just talking to him”: Donald Liebenson, “David Brenner at Zanies: ‘This Is What Comedy Was Meant to Do,’” Huffington Post, November 20, 2008.
118 “Oddest censorship I ever experienced”: Unmasked with George Carlin.
118 “sloppy and hippy character”: Berger, Last Laugh, 222.
119 “just trying to make it less fearsome”: Appearance on The Mike Douglas Show (syndicated), May 15, 1971.
120 “I’d never done a real college-audience-in-the-Sixties kind of thing”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
120 “I killed”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
6. Special Dispensation
123 “trying to cash in on the hippie craze”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
124 “now being thought of as hokey”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
125 “They weren’t on my side totally”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
125 “It’s natural for people to distrust”: Werbin, “How George Carlin Showed His Hair.”
126 “They’d heard about it in show business”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
126 “I went over to explain to him”: Zoglin, Comedy at the Edge, 32.
126 “It’s an opportunity for George”: Appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (NBC), February 29, 1972.
127 “I don’t know about ‘better’”: Appearance on The Mike Douglas Show (syndicated), Feburary 18, 1972.
128 “After twenty years of that”: Werbin, “How George Carlin Showed His Hair.”
129 “That was really the capper”: Werbin, “How George Carlin Showed His Hair.”
130 “She didn’t know it had reached this level”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
131 “He takes seven expletives”: Henry Edwards, “Their Satire Is Kid Stuff,” New York Times, April 28, 1974.
132 “marijuana smoke was so thick in the area”: Dave Tianen, “Summerfest: Gig Has Had Many High Notes,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 28, 2007.
133 “I couldn’t believe my ears”: Jim Stingl, “Carlin’s Naughty Words Still Ring in Officer’s Ears,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 1, 2007.
134 “No one said to me, you know”: Appearance on 20/20.
134 “Brenda and I laid off of everything”: Werbin, “How George Carlin Showed His Hair.”
134-135 “had no idea he was like that”: Quoted in Dave Tianen, “Summerfest: The Big 40,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 24, 2007.
135 “I find it kind of funny”: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 28, 2007.
137 “Jeepers creepers, you can imagine”: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 28, 2007.
142 “use of obscene language is very simple”: Stone, “Carlin.”
142 “was the first one to make language an issue”: Carlin on Comedy.
7. Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television
143 “She’d gotten the imprimatur”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
144 “Let’s face it”: Arthur Unger, “The Nonconforming George Carlin,” Christian Science Monitor, July 23, 1973.
145 “I take a perverse delight”: Werbin, “How George Carlin Showed His Hair.”
145 “and a number of others just stormed out”: Berger, Last Laugh, 226-28.
146 “Cocaine was different”: Merrill, “Playboy Interview.”
147 “I ‘peed’ a long time on him,” Berger, Last Laugh, 229.
147 “Shit has saved my life”: Berger, Last Laugh, 232.
148 “One man’s vulgarity”: Anthony Lewis, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment (Basic Books, 2007), 42-43, 131-32.
148 “was doing great damage to words”: The Carlin Case, WBAI, March 30, 1978.
150 “He played all kinds of records”: Jesse Walker, Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America (New York University Press, 2001), 73.
150 “Whereas I can perhaps understand”: The Carlin Case.
154 “Obnoxious, gutter language”: Marjorie Heins, Not in Front of the Children: “Indecency,” Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth (Hill and Wang, 2001), 99.
154 “simply as a matter of taste”: Matthew Lasar, Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network (Temple University Press, 1999), 141.
160 “biggest regret”: David Hochman, “Playboy Interview: George Carlin,” Playboy (October 2005).
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