Featuring a fresh-faced new comedy troupe dubbed The Not Ready for Primetime Players, the first episode of the NBC ...

Three decades before the Pentagon announced plans to livestream the execution of the Fort Hood mass shooter, legendary ...

LOS ANGELES Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television. Some People Are Stupid. Stuff. People I Can Do Without. George Carlin, who died Sunday at 71, leaves behind not only a series of memorable ...

If George Carlin were still around, he’d probably have something brutally honest (and probably hilarious) to say about the state of the world. But even though he’s gone, his voice is everywhere today ...

George Carlin, the standup comic who defined the comedy counterculture and went to the Supreme Court to defend his “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” routine, died Sunday of heart failure ...

The 1970s and 1980s are widely considered one of the most important eras in stand-up comedy. Comics like George Carlin, Rodney Dangerfield, and Richard Pryor dominated the era, becoming some of the ...

George Carlin, the iconoclastic and inventive comedian who died June 22 in Santa Monica, Calif., experienced several incarnations in a career spanning half a century. He was the rapid-fire radio DJ ...

Drug use and dirty words got stand-up comedian George Carlin banned from NBC's Tonight Show. But when the same network started Saturday Night Live, George Carlin was the first guest host . Ultimately, ...

Throughout his decades-long career in comedy, George Carlin was very open about the influence that Danny Kaye had on him as a performer. When Carlin was a young boy, he would watch comedians like Kaye ...

If any comedian knew how to stay one step ahead of the competition, it was George Carlin. While other comics from his generation would stick with a tried-and-true formula after achieving success, ...

George Carlin was an American comic icon, Grammy winner and best-selling author. Gregory Bull / AP The George Carlin Show debuted on Fox in 1994, but the series only lasted for one season. The comic ...