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Carlin later said that there were other, more pragmatic reasons for abandoning his acting career in favor of standup. In an interview for Esquire magazine in , he said, "Because of my abuse of drugs, I neglected my business affairs and had large arrears with the IRS, and that took me eighteen to twenty years to dig out of. I did it honorably, and I don't begrudge them.

I don't hate paying taxes, and I'm not angry at anyone, because I was complicit in it. But I'll tell you what it did for me: it made me a way better comedian. Because I had to stay out on the road and I couldn't pursue that movie career, which would have gone nowhere, and I became a really good comic and a really good writer. The bill omitted "tits", but included "asshole", not one of Carlin's original seven words.

It was referred to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution in and was tabled. Carlin performed regularly as a headliner in Las Vegas , but in his run at the MGM Grand Las Vegas was terminated after an altercation with his audience. After a poorly received set filled with dark references to suicide bombings and beheadings, Carlin complained that he could not wait to get out of "this fucking hotel" and Las Vegas; he wanted to go back east, he said, "where the real people are".

He continued: "People who go to Las Vegas, you've got to question their fucking intellect to start with. Traveling hundreds and thousands of miles to essentially give your money to a large corporation is kind of fucking moronic. That's what I'm always getting here is these kind of fucking people with very limited intellects. I hope it was positive; if not, well, blow me.

Topics included suicide, natural disasters , cannibalism , genocide , human sacrifice , threats to civil liberties in the U. At the first tour stop, at the Tachi Palace Casino in Lemoore, California , he said the appearance was his "first show back" after a six-week hospitalization for heart failure and pneumonia. He repeated the theme to his audience several times throughout the show: "It's all bullshit, and it's bad for ya".

When asked what made him proudest of his career, he cited the fact that his books had sold close to a million copies. In August , while touring with comedy partner Jack Burns in Dayton, Ohio , Carlin stopped at a roadside diner, where he met waitress Brenda Hosbrook. Their marriage was often marred by his cocaine use and her alcoholism, the latter of which worsened when Carlin's mother came to stay with them and would secretly pour Hosbrook drinks while derogating Carlin.

Carlin met comedy writer Sally Wade six months after Brenda's death and said it was "love at first sight", but told her he was hesitant to act on his feelings so soon after being widowed. In a interview, Carlin said that using cannabis , LSD , and mescaline had helped him cope with life. Although born into a Catholic family, Carlin outspokenly rejected religion, criticizing and mocking it in his routines.

Carlin had a history of heart problems, [ 79 ] [ 80 ] including heart attacks in , , and Carlin's publicist Jeff Abraham said that he once lifted his shirt after coming to a gig from the hospital to show Abraham his torso, whereupon Abraham said it looked like a science project. Per his wishes, his body was cremated and his ashes scattered in front of various New York City nightclubs and over Spofford Lake in New Hampshire , where he had attended summer camp as an adolescent.

After Carlin's seven dirty words routine and subsequent FCC v. Pacifica Foundation Supreme Court ruling in , broadcasters started to use the "Carlin Warning" to remind performers of the words they could not say during a live performance. 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.

Four days before Carlin's death, the John F. Louis C. 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. The book, chronicling most of Carlin's life and future plans including the one-man show, was published in The abridged audio edition is narrated by Carlin's brother Patrick Jr.

Many quotations have been falsely attributed to Carlin, including various joke lists, rants, and other pieces. The website Snopes , which debunks urban legends and myths, has addressed these hoaxes. Carlin was aware of this and debunked the quotes, writing on his website, "Here's a rule of thumb, folks: nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.

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