George Carlin News

'LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT" On this evening in 1975, George Carlin hosted the very first episode of Saturday Night Live .

On Oct. 11, 1975, the sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live" made its debut on NBC.

With the words, "Good evening - " I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not," Cornelius Crane Chase struck a chord with 1970's era television audiences who delighted each week as the handsome yet accident-prone goofball ...

Something's stirring in the local comedy scene. After a decade of dormancy, new clubs and shows are cropping up all over the island, troupes are forming and major headliners are coming back to perform in ...

September 17, 2008 AT 06:20PM Ricky Gervais thinks being a putz is "heartwarming." [ LA Times ] The Rolling Stone comedy issue is gutless, says anonymous coward.

Jon Stewart and Margaret Cho are just two stars who will honour the late George Carlin at this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humour.

Tim Russert and George Carlin both died in June 2008, but you can hear them again on the Leonard Lopate Show.

Sam Morris Race car driver Swede Savage's headstone in San Bernardino, Calif., reads "David Earl Savage, Jr.

Dear Dave: I'm watching 'Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End,' and my 12-year-old daughter says the little girl on the show, Cassie, looks like Emily Osment of 'Hannah Montana.' Could this truly be her? If not, ...

''That was the first time I had actually seen it,'' Janis Ian says about NBC's rebroadcast of her 1975 performance on Saturday Night Live .

In death, comedian George Carlin returned to New Hampshire, where some of his earliest routines were heard.

When George Carlin passed away on June 22 from heart failure at the age of 71, standup comedy did not die with him.

When George Carlin passed away on June 22 from heart failure at the age of 71, standup comedy did not die with him.

When George Carlin passed away on June 22 from heart failure at the age of 71, standup comedy did not die with him.

When George Carlin passed away on June 22 from heart failure at the age of 71, standup comedy did not die with him.

When George Carlin passed away on June 22 from heart failure at the age of 71, standup comedy did not die with him.

George Carlin is dead. He was an icon of my youth, and a counted on companion throughout my adulthood.

It was the late George Carlin who asked the question: "Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" Call me the idiot.

George Carlin is dead. He was an icon of my youth, and a counted on companion throughout my adulthood.

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will posthumously award the eleventh annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to the late George Carlin.