Editing George Carlin (section)

=== 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>