Belated Hippie History Month Essay #4

My essay is about George Carlin. He is best known for being the architect of the world, or at least that's what he claims.

George Carlin was born in New York and raised in Manhattan. Despite that he didn't die. He dropped out of high school at the age of fourteen for being a class clown and joined the US Air Force. This gave him the vocabulary necessary for his later career in comedy.

In the late fifties, George Carlin joined Jack Burns to form a comedy team. They eventually moved to California and stayed as a team for two years, but quit after Jack got in an argument with a taxi driver.

In the sixties, George Carlin tried to get a job on television. His first job was as a weatherman, but he got fired for being stoned all the time. His attempts at being a disc jockey were also disasterous. And his Indian Sargeant character was offensive enough to hurt his tv career for a while. Still, he was able to find work on Johnny Carson's show.

In the seventies, Carlin embraced the spirit of the seventies and became too hip to be clean-cut. He eventually got many fans when he started recalling and counting all the words he read on a bathroom wall the previous day. The FCC wouldn't allow him to say these on tv, and he was eventually taken to court. The Supreme Court finally handed down a verdict that "piss" was too lame to be a word not heard on tv, so George was fined for his act. Amazingly, this made him more popular then ever.

After finding a permanent home at HBO and hosting the first Saturday Night Live, he took the rest of the seventies off. He returned in his Oscar deserving role in the Bill and Ted series. He also got a job on Shining Time Station because a judge ordered him to.

In the nineties he starred in his most beloved role, as the star of his own Fox series. After this classic was canceled, he had a role in Dogma as a cardinal obsessed with frisbees.

In the 21st century, he appeared in Jersey Girl. Due to this, he now does voice work in movies like Cars, Tarzan 2, and Happily N'Ever After. One day he'll probably show his face again.

Since George Carlin played a hippie on some animated show, it's well known that he likes to talk about helping the world even though all he does is smell bad and smokes pot. But he does know a great recipe for porkchops.