By Christopher Brennan 10/24/12 11:55am

Street Fighters Too

Carlin the kid. (WFMU)

Carlin’s Ghost: Priest Who Challenged Renaming Street After Comic Reluctantly Blesses Move

George Carlin, passed on in 2008—he would prefer died—but the celebrated, foul-mouthed comic will live around the corner from where he grew up in the 1940s, the 500 block of 121stStreet in Morningside Heights. After months of disagreement, Community Board 9 voted last week to rename the 400 block of 121st Street after the controversial comedian.

The vote, 25-4 with 3 abstentions, comes after months of disagreement. Perhaps fitting for a man with an album called Class Clown, Carlin is still riling up his Catholic grade school, Corpus Christi, which is attached to Corpus Christi Church on the block between Broadway and Amsterdam that was almost renamed. Rev. Raymond Rafferty, the pastor at the church, had protested naming the street where the school is located after a well-known atheist and opponent of religion. Read More

By Tom Acitelli 6/23/08 5:03pm

The Building George Carlin Grew Up In

In August 1941, four-year-old George Carlin moved with his family into an apartment at 519 West 121st Street, at the top of a hill in Morningside Heights right across the street from the back of Columbia’s Teachers College.

"Would live there 25 years," reads the timeline at GeorgeCarlin.com. "First everything occurs here: sex, Read More

By Joe Pompeo 6/23/08 1:38pm

George Carlin Remembered

Grammy Award-winning comedian George Carlin died of heart failure yesterday in Santa Monica, Calif. at the age of 71. According to reports, Mr. Carlin had a history of heart problems, and had checked into the hospital Sunday afternoon after complaining of chest pains. He had just performed the previous weekend in Las Vegas, and was Read More

By Staff 8/20/07 4:17am

Aristocrats Guy Gets Racy Six-Figure Comedy Book Deal

The guys that brought you The Aristocrats, the movie where more than a dozen comics delivered versions of the oldest, dirtiest joke on the Hollywood comedy circuit, have just signed a six-figure deal for a book that will interview salty comics about controversial topics.

!Satiristas¡ will be written by Paul Provenza with photographer Dan Dion, Read More