Comedy News for the week ending Dec. 4, 2022
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Tag: George Carlin
National Comedy Center Honoring George Carlin With All-Star Testament To His Legacy In 2020
The National Comedy Center has assembled an all-star crew of comedians to pay tribute to the late great George Carlin tonight for his birthday. Carlin, …
R.I.P. Jack Burns (1933-2020)
Jack Burns, an early comedy partner of George Carlin who went on to tag-team another popular TV comedy duo with Avery Schreiber, host the first …
There’s a George Carlin biopic in the works
A feature film biopic on comedy legend George Carlin is in the works, with Jerry Hamza, Carlin’s estate executor and former manager, on board as …
SiriusXM Comedy Greats will “F* Politics” for the week starting Oct. 17, 2016
With less than a month until the 2016 presidential election, SiriusXM will rebrand one of its comedy channels as “F* Politics” for the week to help …
Listen to this previously unreleased George Carlin track, “Rats & Squealers”
If you see something, don’t say something to the police. That’s just how this previously unreleased track from a George Carlin performance in 2001 starts! …
George Carlin’s 9/10/2001 joke about rooting for natural disasters, and more, on new posthumous release: “I Kinda Like It When A Lotta People Die”
The estate of the late George Carlin, headed up by his daughter Kelly Carlin, has, as she told friends overnight: “We found some stuff.” Kelly …
Episode #96: Kevin Bartini
Kevin Bartini is a stand-up comedian and writer who audiences see first when they attend tapings of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy …
You still won’t see George Carlin’s hologram performing at the National Comedy Center
Would you settle for Bernie Mac, Redd Foxx, Dean Martin and Andy Kaufman? The Hollywood Reporter reported tonight that a hologram of the late, great …
National Comedy Center in Jamestown, NY, acquires George Carlin’s archives
“A place for his stuff.” That’s how Kelly Carlin shared the news last night with friends. Carlin shared a lot more at a public event …