Three Times Carlin: An Orgy of George

by George Carlin

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A compilation of three of the popular comedian's irreverent observations about life with more than thirty pages of bonus material.

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This is a very good collection of George Carlin's books. If you have not read his stuff before, you get a lot of bang in this book, so to speak. If you have read some of it before, it is nice to revisit. For example, the famous routine about stuff is here. That is one of my favorites. There is a lot of stuff you may have seen performed, so it is nice to go back and read it. For me, I had read two of the books in this collection, so it was revisiting. It was still a funny experience. Carlin is truly the thinking person's comedian, and he is certainly missed. This collection assures he will be remembered, and that his material will keep us laughing and thinking. I definitely recommend this one, and it will be a volume I will reread soon.
A wonderfully amusing collection of George Carlin humor. A few of these are bits that I had heard before or at least was familiar with. There is new stuff in there though I am not familiar enough with Carlin's work to know which ones they are. The books are ordered chronologically, so the earliest one is the first one put in the book. I suppose this goes without saying but it is difficult for me to tell how it is all organized.

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Comedian George Carlin was born on May 12, 1937 in Bronx, New York. He began his career at age 19 at the KJOE radio station in Louisiana. After making numerous appearances on TV, Carlin moved to radio and produced two albums, Take-Offs and Put-Ons, and FM & AM, which won a Grammy Award and was the first of four albums in a row to go gold. One of show more his best known routines was Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television. After performing this routine in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested for disturbing the peace and it also led to an indecency case after WBAI-FM radio aired it in 1973. Carlin also wrote three books and appeared on television and in movies. Besides his four Grammy Awards for best spoken comedy album, he was nominated for five Emmys. In 2002, Carlin was awarded the Freedom of Speech Award by the First Amendment Center in cooperation with the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, and he was the named 11th recipient of The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in June of 2008. George Carlin passed away at age 71 on June 22, 2008 in Santa Monica, California. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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2015
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For a long time, my stand-up material has drawn from three sources. (Preface)
For a long time, my stand-up material has drawn from three sources.
Here's something I can do without: People ahead of me on the supermarket line who are paying for an inexpensive item by credit card or personal check.
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)One more thing: I don't want to know about fetal surgery.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)One more thing: I don’t want to know about fetal surgery.

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Fiction and Literature
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818.5402Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican miscellaneous writings in English20th Century1945-1999
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PN6162 .C271Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)Collections of general literatureWit and humorBy region or country
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