George Carlin Overview:

Actor, George Carlin, was born George Denis Patrick Carlin on May 12, 1937 in New York City, NY. Carlin died at the age of 71 on Jun 22, 2008 in Santa Monica, CA .

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Live Performance.

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According to George in his A&E Biography profile, when he was young and would ask his mother what the meaning of a word was, she would invariably answer "Go look it up in the dictionary". He says his fascination with words, their meanings, and word play, is where is comedy routine comes from: The dissection of "words". Even his infamous "Seven Dirty Words" routine is about the meanings of these "bad" words.

Attended (but was expelled from) Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, New York--the same alma mater as Regis Philbin and Martin Scorsese.

Awarded the 2008 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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