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George Carlin performs regularly as a headliner in Las Vegas. He has currently begun a new tour through the first half of 2006, and had a new HBO Special on November 5th, 2005 entitled Life is Worth Losing.
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Carlin began a weekly sitcom, The George Carlin Show, cast as "George O'Grady", a New York City cab driver, for the Fox Broadcasting Company in 1993. He quickly included a variation of the "Seven Words" in the plot. The show lasted 27 episodes before being cancelled in December 1995.
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In 1965, Carlin began to get extensive TV exposure: fifty-eight appearances in 1965 and 1966 alone, mostly on Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas. Network spots during that period included The Hollywood Palace, Jimmy Dean, Roger Miller and Carlin was a regular on Kraft Summer Music Hall with John Davidson, and the following year he starred with Buddy Greco and Buddy Rich on Away We Go, the summer replacement for Jackie Gleason. His first album, Take-Offs and Put-Ons, was released in 1967 on RCA Victor. Between 1967 and 1970, he made another eighty TV appearances, including Ed Sullivan, Tom Jones, Steve Allen, Jackie Gleason and Carol Burnett. He ... worked in all major nightclubs, including the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
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In 1969 George is kicked out of the Fontier Hotel in Las Vegas for saying "ass" on stage. This period ... marks the beining of George's use of drugs, which would last until 1975. During this period George's comedy style began it's transofmation into the no-bullshit social commentary that it has become today. George would appear on many television variety shows, including the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. He would also record several comedy records earning him multiple Gold records and Grammy Nominations.
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In 1961, Carlin married Brenda Hosbrook (born June 12, 1939, died May 11, 1997), whom he had met while touring the previous year, in her parents' living room in Dayton, Ohio. The couple had a daughter, Kelly, in 1963. In 1971, George and Brenda renewed their wedding vows in Las Vegas, Nevada. Brenda died of liver cancer a day before Carlin's sixtieth birthday, in 1997.
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Carlin still manages to perform 90 concerts each year around the country, selling nearly a quarter of a million tickets. Eight weeks annually at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas rounds out a very full road schedule. Carlin is ... currently working on his thirteenth HBO comedy special, George Carlin: Right Near Broadway, which aired in the fall of 2005. A CD of the show followed, bringing his album total to 25, including compilations and books on tape.
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