Background[]
Biography[]
Personal Life[]
Filmography[]
- That Girl (1966) 1 episode
- John Davidson at Notre Dame (1967)
- How's Your Mother-in-Law? (1967) 1 episode
- With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)
- The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1968) 1 episode
- The Real George Carlin (1973)
- Tony Orlando and Dawn (1974) series regular
- Saturday Night Live (1975-84) 2 episodes
- Perry Como's Hawaiian Holiday (1976)
- Car Wash (1976)
- Welcome Back, Kotter (1977) 1 episode
- The People's Command Performance: '77 (1977)
- A Tribute to Mr. Television Milton Berle (1978)
- On Location: George Carlin at Phoenix (1978)
- Americathon (1979)
- The First 100 Years of Recorded Music (1981)
- George Carlin: Carlin on Campus (1984)
- Thomas & Friends (1984-95) series regular
- Apt. 2C (1985)
- Comic Relief (1986)
- The Vidiots (1986)
- George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head (1986)
- Outrageous Fortune (1987)
- George Carlin: What Am I Doing in New Jersey? (1988)
- Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1988) 1 episode
- What's Alan Watching? (1989)
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
- Working Tra$h (1990)
- Comic Relief IV (1990)
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990) series regular
- George Carlin: Doin' It Again (1990)
- Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
- The Prince of Tides (1991)
- Shining Time Station (1991-93) 45 episodes
- George Carlin: Jammin' in New York (1992)
- Thomas & Friends: James Goes Buzz Buzz (1994)
- Thomas & Friends: Percy's Ghostly Trick (1994)
- Fox Halloween Bash (1994)
- The George Carlin Show (1994-95) series regular
- Shining Time Station: Once Upon a Time (1995)
- Shining Time Station: Second Chances (1995)
- Shining Time Station: One of the Family (1995)
- Who Makes You Laugh? (1995)
- 20 Years of Comedy on HBO (1995)
- Streets of Laredo (1995) 3 episodes
- Shining Time Station: Queen for a Day (1995)
- Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales (1996) 6 episodes
- George Carlin: Back in Town (1996)
- George Carlin: George's Best Stuff (1996)
- Biography (1996-00) series regular
- George Carlin: Personal Favorites (1997)
- George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy (1997)
- The Simpsons (1998) 1 episode
- Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998)
- Dogma (1999)
- Storytime with Thomas (1999) 2 episodes
- George Carlin: You Are All Diseased (1999)
- 10 Years of Thomas & Friends (1999)
- MADtv (2000) 1 episode
- Uncomfortably Close with Michael McKean (2001) 1 episode
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
- George Carlin: Complaints & Grievances (2001)
- Bitter Jester (2003)
- George on George (2003)
- Scary Movie 3 (2003)
- Jersey Girl (2004)
- The N Word (2004)
- Inside the Actors Studio (2004) 1 episode
- Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party (2004)
- The Aristocrats (2005)
- Tarzan II (2005)
- George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing (2005)
- Cars (2006)
- Thomas & Friends: Halloween Adventures (2006)
- Happily N'Ever After (2006)
- Archive of American Television Interview with George Carlin (2007)
- History of the Joke (2008)
- George Carlin... It's Bad for Ya! (2008)
- Thomas & Friends: Mud Glorious Mud (2008)
- Lord, Save Us from Your Followers (2008)
- Thomas and Friends: Hop on Board (2009)
- Thomas & Friends: Holiday Express (2009)
- Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (2009) 4 episodes
- Thomas & Friends: The Greatest Stories (2010)
- Mater's Tall Tales (2009-10) 3 episodes
- Thomas & Friends: Engine Friends (2012)
- Thomas & Friends: Thomas' Holiday Collection (2017)
- Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
Trivia[]
- He was the first-ever host of Saturday Night Live (1975)
- Inducted into the Comedy Hall of Fame in November 1994.
- Received a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in January 1987. It's located at the corner of Vine and Selma Streets, between Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards.
- Chosen as #2 in Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time (April 2004).
- Joined the U.S. Air Force as a radar technician.
- During his stint in the Air Force, he was court-martialed three times.
- Despite his famous stage persona as an angry, volatile man, he was known to be a very kind, quiet and shy man offstage.
Quotes[]
- If you love someone, set them free; if they come home, set them on fire.
- When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
- Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy. Second is not all that bad.
- I'm completely in favor of the separation of church and state. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
- I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
- I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
- Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
- The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything.
- It's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
- Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.