Editing George Carlin (section)

== Legacy ==
=== Awards and honors ===
{{main|List of awards and nominations received by George Carlin}}

Along with [[List of awards and nominations received by George Carlin|numerous other accolades]], Carlin won five [[Grammy Awards]] and was nominated for six [[Primetime Emmy Awards]] and two [[Daytime Emmy Awards]]. He [[List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame#C|received a star]] on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]]<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMX1M3lwAN4 |title=Flowers were placed on the Walk of Fame star of comic George Carlin, who died Sunday |date=July 21, 2015 |last=AP Archive |access-date=January 18, 2025 |via=YouTube}}</ref> in January 1987<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 25, 2019 |title=George Carlin |url=https://walkoffame.com/george-carlin/ |access-date=January 18, 2025 |website=Hollywood Walk of Fame |language=en-US |quote=Category Live Performance Address 1555 Vine Street Ceremony date 01/21/1987}}</ref> and was a recipient of the [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]]'s [[Mark Twain Prize for American Humor]] in 2008.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}

=== Influences ===
Carlin's influences included [[Danny Kaye]],<ref name="playboy" /><ref name="MurrayJ">{{Cite news |url=https://www.avclub.com/content/node/42195 |title=Interviews: George Carlin |last=Murray |first=Noel |date=November 2, 2005 |publisher=[[The Onion]] |work=[[The A.V. Club]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051104040743/http://avclub.com/content/node/42195 |archive-date=November 4, 2005 |access-date=June 12, 2014}}</ref> [[Jonathan Winters]],<ref name="playboy" /> [[Lenny Bruce]],<ref name="bravo" /><ref name="NPR">{{Cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4136881|title=Comedian and Actor George Carlin |last=Carlin |first=George|date=November 1, 2004|publisher=[[National Public Radio]] |access-date=June 11, 2014}}</ref><ref name="comedy">Carlin, George, ''[[George Carlin on Comedy]]'', "Lenny Bruce", Laugh.com, 2002.</ref> [[Richard Pryor]],<ref name="bravo" /> [[Nichols and May]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/videos/entertainment/2017/01/09/george-carlin-1990-larry-king-live-interview.cnn|title=How George Carlin became George Carlin (1990)|first=Larry|last=King|date=1990}}</ref> [[Jerry Lewis]],<ref name="playboy" /><ref name="bravo" /> the [[Marx Brothers]],<ref name="playboy" /><ref name="bravo" /> [[Mort Sahl]],<ref name="comedy" /> [[Spike Jones]],<ref name="bravo" /> [[Ernie Kovacs]],<ref name="bravo" /> and the [[Ritz Brothers]].<ref name="playboy" /> His daughter Kelly said in 2022 that he took more acting roles in the latter half of his career because he "never gave up on the Danny Kaye dream".<ref name="Dream2022" />

Comedians who have claimed Carlin as an influence include [[Adam Ferrara]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r92aSl_8YoI| title=Adam Ferrara Part 2 of 3: On His Idol George Carlin | website=YouTube | date=June 5, 2015 }}</ref> [[Bill Burr]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/bill-burrs-top-five-stand-ups|title=Bill Burr's top 5 stand ups|date=October 2, 2013}}</ref> [[Chris Rock]],<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2008/07/06/chris-rock-salutes-george-carlin/ |title=Chris Rock Salutes George Carlin |last=Rock |first=Chris |author-link=Chris Rock |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=July 6, 2008 |access-date=January 28, 2023}}</ref> [[Jerry Seinfeld]],<ref>{{cite AV media|last=Seinfeld|first=Jerry|title=Jerry Seinfeld: The Comedian Award|medium=TV|publisher=[[HBO]]|date=April 1, 2007}}</ref> [[Louis C.K.]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.louisck.net/2008/06/goodbye-george-carlin.html|title=Goodbye George Carlin|last=C.K.|first=Louis|author-link=Louis C.K.|publisher=LouisCK.net|date=June 22, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080701054320/http://www.louisck.net/2008/06/goodbye-george-carlin.html|archive-date=July 1, 2008|access-date=May 10, 2014}}</ref> [[Lewis Black]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://origin.avclub.com/content/node/49217|title=Lewis Black|publisher=[[The Onion]]|work=[[The A.V. Club]]|author=Gillette, Amelie|date=June 7, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707005744/http://origin.avclub.com/content/node/49217 |archive-date=July 7, 2007 |access-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref> [[Jon Stewart]],<ref>{{cite video|people=Stewart, Jon|title=George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy|medium=TV|publisher=[[HBO]]|date=February 27, 1997}}</ref> [[Stephen Colbert]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/content/node/44705|title=Stephen Colbert|publisher=The Onion |work=The A.V. Club|author=Rabin, Nathan|date=January 25, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060202094518/http://www.avclub.com/content/node/44705 |archive-date=February 2, 2006 |access-date=June 11, 2014}}</ref> [[Bill Maher]],<ref>{{cite episode|title=episode 38|air-date=October 1, 2004|series=Real Time with Bill Maher|series-link=Real Time with Bill Maher|network=[[HBO]]|season=2|number=18}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=King|first=Larry|author-link=Larry King|title=Bill Maher Discusses Religulous on Larry King|work=[[Larry King Live]] |publisher=CNN|date=August 20, 2008|url=http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/08/20/lkl.bill.maher.cnn}}</ref> [[Liz Miele]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HnkVZCUtjs |title=Liz Miele: Advice from George Carlin|publisher=Irie Chat|date=July 3, 2020 |access-date=September 1, 2022 | website=YouTube}}</ref> [[Patrice O'Neal]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.comedycentral.com/comedians/browse/o/patrice_oneal.jhtml |title=Comedians: Patrice O'Neal|publisher=Comedy Central|date=October 30, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081108085406/http://www.comedycentral.com/comedians/browse/o/patrice_oneal.jhtml |archive-date=November 8, 2008 |access-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref> [[Colin Quinn]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Colin Quinn|publisher=The Onion|work=The A.V. Club|url=https://www.avclub.com/content/node/22529|last=Rabin |first=Nathan|date=June 18, 2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070518104531/http://www.avclub.com/content/node/22529 |archive-date=May 18, 2007 |access-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref> [[Steven Wright]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/content/node/54975|title=Steven Wright|publisher=The Onion |work=The A.V. Club|last=Rabin |first=Nathan |date=November 9, 2006 |access-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref> [[Mitch Hedberg]],<ref>{{cite web | url = https://allmusic.com/artist/mitch-hedberg-p602821|title=Mitch Hedberg|publisher=Allmusic|work=Biography|last=Jeffries |first=David |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319084833/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mitch-hedberg-p602821 |archive-date=March 19, 2011 |access-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref> [[Russell Peters]],<ref>{{cite web |author=Alan Cho |url=http://www.thegauntlet.ca/story/comedy-preview-russell-peters-wont-hurt-you-real-bad |title=Comedy Preview: Russell Peters won't hurt you real bad |publisher=Gauntlet.ucalgary.ca |date=November 24, 2005 |access-date=June 10, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140610160339/http://www.thegauntlet.ca/story/comedy-preview-russell-peters-wont-hurt-you-real-bad |archive-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref> [[Bo Burnham]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/bo-burnham-im-a-complete-hypocrite-2288858.html|title=Bo Burnham: 'I'm a complete hypocrite'|work=The Independent|access-date=July 19, 2018|language=en}}</ref> [[Jay Leno]],<ref name="People">{{cite web|last1=Breuer|first1=Howard|author2=[[Stephen M. Silverman]]|date=June 24, 2008|title=Carlin Remembered: He Helped Other Comics with Drug Problems|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20208460,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080627150403/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20208460,00.html|archive-date=June 27, 2008|url-status=dead|access-date=June 11, 2014|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|publisher=Time Inc.}}</ref> [[Ben Stiller]],<ref name="People" /> [[Kevin Smith]],<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/142975/page/1 |title=A God Who Cussed |author=Smith, Kevin |author-link=Kevin Smith |magazine=[[Newsweek]] |date=June 23, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626120736/http://www.newsweek.com/id/142975/page/1 |archive-date=June 26, 2008 |access-date=June 11, 2014}}</ref> [[Chris Rush]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.natural-humor-medicine.com/Chris_Rush.html |title=An Interview with Comic Legend, Chris Rush |last=Kuhn |first=Clifford |publisher=Natural-Humor-Medicine.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041121165633/http://www.natural-humor-medicine.com/Chris_Rush.html |archive-date=November 21, 2004 |access-date=June 12, 2014}}</ref> [[Rob McElhenney]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1olm4y/i_am_rob_mcelhenney_ama/cct6cy5/?context=1 |title=I am Rob McElhenney AMA! |date=October 16, 2013 |access-date=July 14, 2015}}</ref> and [[Jim Jefferies]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/05/jim-jefferies-interview.html|title=Jim Jefferies. - Interview|work=pastemagazine.com|access-date=May 14, 2017|language=en}}</ref>

=== The Carlin Warning ===
After Carlin's [[seven dirty words]] routine and subsequent ''[[FCC v. Pacifica Foundation]]'' Supreme Court ruling in 1978, broadcasters started to use the "Carlin Warning" to remind performers of the words they could not say during a live performance.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/438/726.html |title= FCC v. Pacifica Foundation |website=Findlaw}}</ref>

=== Tributes ===
[[Image:GeorgeCarlinWay.jpg|thumb|George Carlin Way in Manhattan]]
Upon Carlin's death in 2008, HBO broadcast 11 of his 14 HBO specials from June 25 to 28, including a 12-hour marathon block on the HBO Comedy channel. NBC scheduled a rerun of the first episode of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', which Carlin hosted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/1021949,carlintv062408.article |title=Networks remembering George Carlin in classic reruns, specials |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080627160725/http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/1021949%2Ccarlintv062408.article |archive-date=June 27, 2008 |access-date=June 10, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/george-carlins-televised-stage/ |title=George Carlin's Televised Stage |date=June 23, 2008 |access-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_TODAY=TODAY |title=HBO schedule |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080627023829/http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_TODAY=TODAY |archive-date=June 27, 2008 |access-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref> Both [[Sirius Satellite Radio]]'s "Raw Dog Comedy" and [[XM Satellite Radio]]'s "XM Comedy" channels ran a memorial marathon of Carlin recordings the day after he died. [[Sirius XM Satellite Radio]] has since devoted an entire channel to Carlin, ''[[Carlin's Corner]]'', featuring all his comedy albums, live concerts, and works from his private archives.<ref name="CarlinsCorner">{{cite news|url=https://www.siriusxm.com/carlinscorner|title=Carlin's Corner - One & Only George Carlin XL|newspaper=Siriusxm |access-date=November 13, 2019|publisher=[[Liberty Media]]/Sirius XM Radio Inc.}}</ref> [[Larry King]] devoted his June 23 show to a Carlin tribute, featuring interviews with [[Jerry Seinfeld]], [[Bill Maher]], [[Roseanne Barr]], [[Lewis Black]], Carlin's brother, Patrick Jr., and his daughter, Kelly. On June 24, ''[[The New York Times]]'' printed an op-ed piece on Carlin by Jerry Seinfeld.<ref>{{cite news |last=Seinfeld |first=Jerry |title=Dying Is Hard. Comedy Is Harder |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/opinion/24seinfeld.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 24, 2008 |access-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref> Cartoonist [[Garry Trudeau]] paid tribute in his ''[[Doonesbury]]'' comic strip on July 27.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2008/07/27 |title=Doonesbury comic strip |date=July 27, 2008 |access-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref>

[[File:Make God Laugh.jpg|thumb|right|A dedication from the [[Laugh Factory]] two days after Carlin died]]
Four days before Carlin's death, the [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]] named him its 2008 [[Mark Twain Prize for American Humor]] honoree.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702519.html |author=Trescott, Jacqueline |title=Bleep! Bleep! George Carlin To Receive Mark Twain Humor Prize |newspaper=washingtonpost.com |date=June 18, 2008 |access-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref> He became its first posthumous recipient on November 10, 2008.<ref name="posthumous-award">{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-carlin-twain-idUSN2328397920080623?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews |title=George Carlin becomes first posthumous Mark Twain honoree |date=June 23, 2008 |work=Reuters |access-date=June 12, 2014}}</ref> Comedians honoring him at the ceremony included [[Jon Stewart]], [[Bill Maher]], [[Lily Tomlin]] (a past winner of the prize), [[Lewis Black]], [[Denis Leary]], [[Joan Rivers]], and [[Margaret Cho]]. [[Louis C.K.]] dedicated his stand-up special ''Chewed Up'' to Carlin, while Lewis Black dedicated the second season of ''[[Lewis Black's Root of All Evil|Root of All Evil]]'' to him.

For years, Carlin had been compiling and writing his autobiography, to be released in conjunction with a one-man Broadway show tentatively titled ''New York Boy''. After his death, his collaborator on both projects [[Tony Hendra]] edited the autobiography for release as ''[[Last Words (book)|Last Words]]''. The book, chronicling most of Carlin's life and future plans including the one-man show, was published in 2009. The abridged audio edition is narrated by Carlin's brother Patrick Jr.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Deahl |first=Rachel |title=Free Press Acquires Posthumous Carlin Memoir |newspaper=[[Publishers Weekly]] |date=July 14, 2009 |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6670970.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090716142423/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6670970.html |archive-date=July 16, 2009 |access-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref> In 2011, Carlin's widow Sally Wade published ''The George Carlin Letters: The Permanent Courtship of Sally Wade'', a collection of previously unpublished writings and artwork by Carlin interwoven with Wade's chronicle of their decade together.<ref>Wade, Sally (March 8, 2011). ''The George Carlin Letters: The Permanent Courtship of Sally Wade.'' Gallery. {{ISBN|1-4516-0776-8}}.</ref> The subtitle is a phrase on a handwritten note that Wade found next to her computer upon returning home from the hospital after his death.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.laweekly.com/2011-03-03/calendar/carlin-s-darlin/ |newspaper=LA Weekly |title=Carlin's Darlin' |date=March 3, 2011 |author=Michael Simmons |access-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref> In 2008, Kelly Carlin announced plans to publish an "oral history", a collection of stories from Carlin's friends and family.<ref>''USA Today'' "Daughter to shed light on Carlin's life and stuff." Wloszczyna, Susan. November 4, 2008.</ref> She later said the project had been shelved in favor of completion of her own project,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.comedyland.net/2009/12/kelly-carlin-mccall.html |title=Kelly Carlin-McCall |date=December 30, 2009 |publisher=Comedy Land |access-date=June 10, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214120544/http://www.comedyland.net/2009/12/kelly-carlin-mccall.html |archive-date=December 14, 2013}}</ref> an autobiographical one-woman show called ''A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://allforonetheater.org/shows/a-carlin-home-companion/ |title=A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George |access-date=June 10, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140620224953/http://allforonetheater.org/shows/a-carlin-home-companion/ |archive-date=June 20, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://thekellycarlinsite.com/companion/ |title=Kelly Carlin |url-status=dead |access-date=June 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140619103530/http://thekellycarlinsite.com/companion |archive-date=June 19, 2014}}</ref>

On October 22, 2014, part of West 121st Street in [[Morningside Heights]] was renamed "George Carlin Way".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/nyregion/honoring-george-carlin-with-his-own-manhattan-block.html |title=Honoring George Carlin With His Own Manhattan Block |first=Matt |last=Flegenheimer |date=October 22, 2014 |work=The New York Times |access-date=October 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028160023/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/nyregion/honoring-george-carlin-with-his-own-manhattan-block.html |archive-date=October 28, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Moneyball (film)|Moneyball]]'' screenwriter Stan Chervin announced in 2018 that a biopic of Carlin was being written.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/10/george-carlin-biopic-in-development-from-moneyball-writer.html|title=So, Which Comic Will Make His Dramatic Turn With This George Carlin Biopic?|last=Kiefer|first=Halle|work=Vulture|access-date=October 2, 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/estate-approved-george-carlin-biopic-731772/|title=Estate-Approved George Carlin Biopic in the Works|last=Kreps|first=Daniel|date=October 2, 2018|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=October 2, 2018|language=en}}</ref>

''[[George Carlin's American Dream]]'', a documentary about Carlin's life, was released on [[HBO Max]] on May 20, 2022. It is directed by [[Judd Apatow]] and Michael Bonfiglio, and produced by Carlin's daughter Kelly.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=George Carlin Gets the King of Comedy Treatment in New Doc Trailer |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/george-carlin-documentary-judd-apatow-trailer-1346356/ |last=Bilstein |first=Jon |date=May 2, 2022 |access-date= May 15, 2022 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref> In a [[Netflix]] stand-up special released in 2022, ''[[The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand-Up]]'', Carlin was inducted into the [[National Comedy Center]] in [[Jamestown, New York]].<ref>''[https://comedycenter.org/thehall/ National Comedy Center]'', The Hall is a new wing of the museum complex devoted to brilliant comics.</ref>