Now He has the Answer About the "Pork Chops"*

George Carlin died Sunday night 22 June 2008 of heart failure. Given some of the routines he did I suspect he has some "splaining to do" to God. He could be funny & irreverant without lapsing into the dirty language he felt he needed to use. & I'm afraid he is in for a few surprizes. In the 70s the Supreme Court ruled that his Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television routine was "indecent but not obscene" & that the FCC could ban it from air play.

Anyhow, as I said, he did have some great routines without resorting to the smut. Among those were his Wonderful WINO routines in which he made fun of local radio stations. Then there were his local newscast routines. The faux newscasters he created were unique. My favorite was Al Sleet - the hippy dippy weatherman.

From 1966:

Wonderful WINO

From 1967:

When he grew a beard & let his hair grow long he came up with a poem about his long hair he called The Hair Piece. he followed this up with his short The Beard. here is an appearance on The Flip Wilson Show (1972) where he did the routine:

* A reference to his 2004 book entitled "When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?" that he intentionally entitled that to offend Jews, Christians & Muslims.