[identity profile] ravenevermore.livejournal.com 2008-06-23 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It has both amazed and saddened me that so many people i've mentioned this to today DON'T know who Carlin is, until, at a stretch, I mention Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strikes Back or Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure.

[identity profile] thekumquat.livejournal.com 2008-06-23 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I've seen all those films and still don't know who Carlin was - did he do the scripts?

[identity profile] swiftangel.livejournal.com 2008-06-23 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
He was Rufus!

[identity profile] ravenevermore.livejournal.com 2008-06-23 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyYCxz_Ao5g <- From Dogma. He played the small but key role of Cardinal Glick. Also, Rufus in Bill And Ted, and in Jay & Silent Bob he was the hitch-hiker who taught them 'the unwritten rules of the road'

[identity profile] biog.livejournal.com 2008-06-23 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Fuck! He was one of Canada's best. I was introduced to him by a Canadian friend and loved every routine he did. The world will be a less entertaining place without him, R.I.P George Carlin.

[identity profile] ravenevermore.livejournal.com 2008-06-23 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Er... he was a New Yorker. Through and through. Irish decent, raised Roman Catholic. Which explains why he hated the church so much, i suspect.

[identity profile] devilgate.livejournal.com 2008-06-23 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Bummer, that's sad. I was just watching some of his routines on YouTube a couple of weeks ago. I'd heard of the seven words, of course, but I hadn't been aware of him as a performer before then.

[identity profile] adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed. Farewell George!

This isn't safe for work, or television: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3_Nrp7cj_tM