George Carlin is rolling in his grave after the Kennedy Center bleeped his famous Seven Words You Can't Say On Television routine where he was posthumously awarded the Mark Twain humor prize. The Wash Post's Paul Farhi takes the Kennedy Center to task today for censoring Carlin, noting you can say anything in live stage perfomances. Farhi admits the Wash Post video of Jon Stewart on the red carpet before the event uttering "cunt" and "cocksucker" was bleeped by - The Washington Post. Watch it here.Related stories: CBS News Wired
Here's Carlin reprising the FCC v Pacifica Carlin case that resulted in the Supreme Court's 1978 ruling banning such indecency from American broadcast airwaves:
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Piss..as in pissed off...you hear all the time.
A CBS primetime show (I forget which one) once ended with, "shit happens".
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he was pure fucking genius. RIP George
Jim: It's so ridiculous! And Anon, Carlin was! I adored that man...
I interviewed Carlin once, alas, his first interview after his wife died. He was a downer the first 15 minutes, then funny as hell.
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