George Carlin to receive Mark Twain humor prize
6/17/2008, 8:05 p.m. EDT
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — George Carlin will be awarded the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced Tuesday that Carlin will be honored for his 50-year career as a Grammy-winning standup comedian, writer and actor. The center will salute Carlin at a tribute performance by former colleagues November 10th, which will be broadcast later on PBS.
Rat-shit, bat-shit, dirty old twat,
Sixty-nine assholes tied in a knot.
Hooray…
Lizard-shit…
Fuck!
(always made me laugh 🙂
Be Not Inhospitable to Strangers 
Two Americans writers who I admired maybe more than any others… and in many ways, their lives paralleled one another.
we lost a great one..
My sons know Georgie Carlin’s aphorisms better than any of their schoolwork! His books are required reading in our home. 🙂
Christine
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both twain and carlin put on comic masks to crack wise on very serious social issues. I keep thinking of Twain, and all he had to say about the folly of the Army of Engineers claiming to be able to master the mighty Mississippi with earthen levees. Wonder what he’d have to say about New Orleans post Katrina and today’s “natural disaster” in the midwest.
good question David–he is on Time this week too–Twain that is