One read, "He thinks he's a comedian." 4. Jablonski at one point read old detention slips he had issued Carlin. Despite the fears of some in the alumni association, Carlin kept his act clean, and Jablonski enjoyed the tribute. Jablonski-the very man who threw him out.
In 1983, Carlin performed at a Hayes school fundraiser in honor of Msgr. His scholastic career included stealing money from the visiting team's locker room during a basketball game, and getting caught telling kids on the playground he had heroin. In an interview with Playboy, Carlin admitted that he was failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time while he attended Hayes. Unlike Regis Philbin, Martin Scorsese, and Don DeLillo, Carlin didn't graduate from Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx-because he was expelled. HE WENT TO THE SAME HIGH SCHOOL AS MARTIN SCORSESE, REGIS PHILBIN, AND DON DELILLO. He makes funny faces, he talks in funny accents and he can do very, very intricate vocal pieces."' 3. "I kind of looked at that and thought, 'Gee, I can do that. "Danny Kaye was my childhood dream when I was 10, 11," Carlin said of the actor/singer/dancer/physical comedian/musician. GROWING UP, HE WANTED TO BE LIKE DANNY KAYE. "He could talk your donkey's ear off."Ĭarlin's grandfather, a New York City police officer, wrote out Shakespeare's tragedies in longhand for fun. He won a nationwide Dale Carnegie public speaking contest in 1935 with his speech "The Power of Mental Demand." "He had a real line of sh*t, boy," Carlin said of his father. George's father, Patrick, was an advertising manager for the New York newspaper The Sun. Here are some facts about the comedian/actor/author in honor of what would have been his 80th birthday. From being described as a "significant social satirist" in a Supreme Court ruling regarding indecency to serving as the conductor in Shining Time Station, Carlin touched the lives of generations of fans. Over the course of his long and storied career, the legendary comedian released more than 20 albums, recorded more than a dozen HBO comedy specials, and challenged both conventional American thinking and governmental procedure.
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