TOD: George Carlin

After finishing school finally, this past week I have been able to read books I want to read, rather than have to read. When you have to read a minimum of 10 books every 10 weeks, you tend to shelve the fun books you want to read until the school work is done. So this past week I picked up Live From New York, biography about the history of Saturday Night Live. It's an excellent book that tells the SNL story first hand through all the writers, cast members and hosts. Why am I telling you this? Because George Carlin was the first host on the premier show of SNL.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
George Carlin

I was loaded on cocaine all week long.
George Carlin [on hosting the SNL debut show]

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
George Carlin

Carlin died Sunday night of heart failure. He was 71. He was a standup legend and irreverent comic icon that the counterculture was drawn to while the mainstream feared him. Carlin won four Grammy Awards for best spoken comedy album and was nominated for five Emmys. On Tuesday, it was announced that Carlin was being awarded the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which will be presented Nov. 10 in Washington and broadcast on PBS. [Because apparently Mark Twain was hilarious back in the day.]