'Bill & Ted's George Carlin dies - aged 71.

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Source: Inthenews.co.uk


Stand-up comedian George Carlin (mostly recognised for his role as Rufus in the Bill and Ted movies) has died of heart failure at the age of 71.


His publicist Jeff Abraham said the New Yorker had checked into St. John's Health Centre in Santa Monica yesterday and died later in the evening.

Famed for his 'Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television' routine, it saw Carlin arrested for disturbing the peace in Milwaukee in 1972 while the routine's broadcast on New York radio station WBAI-FM in 1973 led to a US Supreme Court ruling over the government's ability to rule over broadcasting standards.

He told the Associated Press:

"So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I'm perversely kind of proud of.

"In the context of that era, it was daring.

"It just sounds like a very self-serving kind of word. I don't want to go around describing myself as a 'groundbreaker' or a 'difference-maker' because I'm not and I wasn't.

"But I contributed to people who were saying things that weren't supposed to be said."



Carlin produced 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials and three books

He performed last weekend, with a set at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas....while it was announced last Tuesday that Carlin was to receive the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humour.


Stephen Schwarzman Kennedy Centre chairman said in a statement announcing the prize:

"In his lengthy career as a comedian, writer, and actor, George Carlin has not only made us laugh, but he makes us think.

"His influence on the next generation of comics has been far-reaching."



Carlin's first wife, Brenda, died in 1997 while he is survived by wife Sally Wade; daughter Kelly Carlin McCall; son-in-law Bob McCall; brother Patrick Carlin; and sister-in-law Marlene Carlin.


RIP Rufus!

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