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163 “punctual, and he fills out forms well”: Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad, Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live (Beech Tree Books/William Morrow, 1986), 84.
163 “I kept praying, ‘I hope George Carlin’”: Shales and Miller, Live from New York, 33.
163 “the major focus of the night”: Shales/Miller, Live from New York, 62.
165 “I probably didn’t have the nerve”: Shales/Miller, Live from New York,56.
8. Wasted Time
168 “It is said that every successful business”: George Mair, Inside HBO: The Billion Dollar War Between HBO, Hollywood and the Home Video Revolution (Dodd, Mead, 1988), 14.
169 “Comedians’ Bill of Rights”: Appearance on 20 Years of Comedy on HBO, 1995.
171 “I was never quite sure of it”: Tony Orlando and Patsi Bale Cox, Halfway to Paradise (St. Martin’s Griffin 2003), 153.
171 “You can’t be the hot new guy”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
172-173 “It would seem to be an American Negro invention”: Ashley Montagu, The Anatomy of Swearing (Macmillan, 1967), 313.
173-174 “a classic case of burning the house”: Heins, Not in Front of the Children, 101.
174 “because it is neither a sexual nor excretory organ”: Heins, Not in Front of the Children, 102.
175 “would risk fine or lose its license”: The Carlin Case.
175 “of nothing but farting”: Lasar, Pacifica Radio, 224.
176 “constitutionally sound but not very politically prudent”: Heins, Not in Front of the Children, 103.
177 “that’s as far as I go”: Merrill, “Playboy Interview.”
177 “locked up in school taking sex education courses”: Nicholas von Hoffman, “Seven Dirty Words: A Cute Form of Censorship,” Washington Post, July 29, 1978.
177 “a good deal of street talk”: Les Brown, “Court’s Decision on Language Stirs Broadcasters,” New York Times, July 10, 1978.
178 “If you don’t like it”: Heins, Not in Front of the Children, 109.
178 “those transgressions suddenly seemed like small potatoes”: Merrill, “Playboy Interview.”
180 “a trip to the cemetery”: Appearance on Inside the Actors Studio (Bravo), 2004.
181 “There’ll be a lot of concert footage”: “George Carlin’s Coming of Age,” Harvard Crimson, July 25, 1978.
183 “Frankly, I feel dated”: “George Carlin’s Coming of Age.”
183 “It was like a breathing-in period”: Carlin on Comedy.
184 “By the time 1980 arrived”: Steve LaBate, “George Carlin On . . . ,” Paste, September 25, 2007.
184 “My album career had faded”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
186 “If you were in Birmingham, Alabama”: Betsy Borns, Comic Lives: Inside the World of American Stand-Up Comedy (Fireside, 1987), 47.
9. America the Beautiful
192 “The orchestra chairs are piled”: Tom Shales, “‘Carlin at Carnegie,’ A Cherishable Touch,” Washington Post, January 8, 1983.
192 “HBO didn’t kick in for me until”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
193 “It was truly like a ton of bricks”: A&E Biography: George Carlin.
194 “just fed your dissatisfaction”: A&E Biography: George Carlin.
194 “Abraham Maslow said the fully realized man”: Dixit, “George Carlin’s Last Interview.”
195 “too sane for his own good”: Robert R. Provine, Laughter: A Scientific Investigation (Viking, 2000), 171.
202 “Kinison was the first guy I ever saw”: Cynthia True, American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story (HarperEntertainment, 2002), 40.
204 “I realized I had to raise my voice”: The Onion A.V. Club and Stephen Thompson, eds., The Tenacity of the Cockroach: Conversations with Entertainment’s Most Enduring Outsiders (Three Rivers Press, 2002), 24-25.
10. Squeamish
206 “I heard a sound that, for children”: Britt Allcroft, “The George Carlin I Knew,” Los Angeles Times, June 26, 2008.
206 “always sounded as if he were”: Seinfeld, “Dying Is Hard.”
207 “I just felt terrific in that role”: Interview, Archive of American Television.
208 “nice, controlled anger”: Jefferson