George Carlin on Being Arrested for Performing "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television"

my next guest in recent years has arrived at Great Heights. He really is highly respected among artists. He has an album that he writes and performs virtually all of his own material. His album is called "The Kenny Rankin Album," but he's doing well too. It's not the one I wanted called uh well, this is not the one I wanted it's this am and FM yes, well, he's doing well, right string, sensational, in fact, uh, I know he has a gold record, but he's going very well, which on a silver record or something, right? Let's put it out here, let's find out.

Would you welcome George Carlin smoking the set again? John, that's right. The cat can't leave it. George, thanks for that, uh, showing the album. on the show like this is, you know, oh, that really helps, forgive me, I really helped you hold the album and do that, yeah, this show, in fact, is better known than any of the others that have been and that they left. I also think it's because the way I hold the album some of the mates say you know here it is and other guys can do this but I hold an album really well I think it probably has more to do with anything. otherwise the way I hold it directly is also usually good, so it's at home, that's right, that's right, you want to turn on the key light, so they thank you.

Now, George, you must promise me something you won't get. I'm not going to get into any trouble on the show tonight because I've been reading about your trouble in Milwaukee and they

arrested

you there or they tried to arrest you or there's a court case pending, because I don't want to jeopardize the case, so I have to be careful with the

words

I use. I guess you supposedly let me say it that way. Use some

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in your act that caused a raid saying you were what the technical language was in the oh, it was disorderly conduct.

Script blasphemy like He opposed, I guess, disorderly conduct, drunk, disorderly conduct, something else, the state didn't want anything to do with it, they didn't want to prosecute him because you're covered by the first amendment on free speech. , the city. However, I did follow that there was a police officer at this Summer Festival, there were between 35 and 55,000 people present. It's a material piece, in quotes, that I've done everywhere, in good places and bad places, in universities, in religious universities, and it's about the

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words you can't say on

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, whose list I have modified since then people have been reminding me others of their own little words that they have are up, they are up to 11 now, but the point is that it was a a satirical look at the taboos of language, and I use the words, for Of course, basically, the words have to do with the various common terms, euphemistic terms for sexual relations or certain objects or body parts, etc., that's basically what everyone uses. uh pretty much I shouldn't say everyone, so I'll probably get letters saying we

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use that we support it.

I told the policeman that night that our fighters have used these words for years and years and when they stop doing so. using them they're not fighting uh you didn't mention a First Amendment. I don't want to jump on you, you know, which gives you the right to the first amendment, although it doesn't give you the right to give fire in a theater full of people, which No, yeah, but I say you know when you say I'm not saying that you did it, I'm just saying that when people say freedom there are certain slanders against anyone and you can't trust anyone and if I said it using those words to someone in the audience to wake them up, that would be another story, but, from what I've been told , recently the Supreme Court has overturned convictions where people were simply running through the streets shouting these words or wearing a shirt with the It's been said in a court now, certainly, if those things were reversed, an artist should be protected by the First Amendment if you're looking for art or satire or whatever and I hope they confirm that.

I hope so, what do you think? It's that thing that makes people absolutely manic and that's almost the word in certain quarters when they hear these words that have been around long before us, but what do you think it is? Do you think it is a puritanical education? Do you think it's a habit? I think we've all agreed that these will be the ones that are useless. Group there 400,000 words in the language and there are about nine or ten that are useless, they would say them, sometimes certain guys can send them to each one. others and say anything, this not just yelling at them, not saying them on the panel, you know, there are places where you wouldn't use those words at all because a word can be offensive in the context of a sentence or in the context of your mood if If you are a little angry and don't really want to get hurt or scared, you can choose softer words and show your madness with your face, if you are just joking and your face is relaxed, etc., you can say a word that won't have the same emotional impact. same word yes, it is true, they have done surveys about it.

It's surprising what makes people nervous. Certain words bother certain people. In other words, they don't think those people say well. That doesn't bother. me, but it's always the people who make the case saying they want to protect someone else's morals,

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their own, they seem fine, at least it's the people who criticize that and say: well, I'm not worried about myself, But these are other poor lazy people. I'm going to make sure to watch the movie to make sure it's correct. It is a terrible image. We can continue a little. We will return after this message.

George, do you think it's time? will he ever come or you can go out to a show like this and do the routine you do now in a private club. Oddly enough, the same people who would come here come to Las Vegas or go see a concert and I've seen them sit down and read material and they laugh and have fun and don't seem to get offended. Why is there what is in this medium? The defense that they have no control. I mean, they have it. They can change it. off is like a member of your family the

television

is really at home almost anyone can walk by and listen to it and as long as commercial television is paid for by private interests and regulated by the government there will be a problem with that kind of Freedom of language, although even in the edges there is a little opening now with softer words, softer attitudes towards the subject, it's slowly expanding as society becomes a little more relaxed about things and I just don't think it can get to that point until we completely eliminate the fear of words, you know well, what would you like to go out and address people tonight?

Would you like to try to avoid the big

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foreigners? It's good to come here and perform my unnatural act, that's my job in a natural act in front of a lot of people it's not fun without people watching this is an unusual job this is my job welcome to my job my job hello my job involves words we are speaking of words mainly I really love them and uh and I have uh Well, I got attached to them very early in life, they trick you, they're fun, one of my favorite words, as I mentioned before, is, you hear it in commercials, semi-boneless ham, there are certain words that I can't understand how something can be semi-boned, does it have a bone or not and it's boneless and then there's a bone for the chicken, it's boneless yes, it doesn't have bones, what do you mean it's boneless yes Will you bone something? no that's not correct, forward side football has a front side, explain that to me, if you want a partially blocked kick, why does the back come before the fourth?

Shouldn't it be fourth and back? If you change your plans and alter your plans, you have done the same thing, but if you change your pants and alter your pants, you have done two different things, why isn't there a word called almost crazy? There are some things for which there are no words when you walk down a busy street and you almost bump into someone and you both decide to correct it three times in a row incorrectly and you do this, there is no name for it if you tell your friend you did that. I just met a guy and we went like this, you don't know, there's no name for that, there's no name for those two little lines on your upper lip that go down from your nose, they really don't know, what are they, I hurt my uh and the value of words the emotional value that changes as you grow up remember when you were a child the word trouble what it meant oh I mean trouble rub you're in trouble I'm in trouble and right after that it would come remember the word please when you really meant it no please pass all this but please oh please please please no please no no please oh please please let me go please please please man please man please man please man maybe that's where it came from I love word matching too and just one more chance just give me one more chance words you used words that were used on you when you were a kid that you never hear when you grow up remember that yes you will break your neck no one says that you will break your neck no one ever broke their neck that when you were a child I never heard of that child he broke his leg he broke his arm and broke your neck leave that stick you will put someone's eye out with that I never heard of a guy but I mean you'll catch pneumonia, don't bother him inside or outside, come on, so anyway, then you have, by the way, one thing if you're a fan of your childhood when you come back. to the house where you grew up after having walked around the house a bit as an adult, walking at the height you used to walk as a child and all those sensory memories will come back to you.

I hadn't seen you look at the window sill and, oh yeah, and the paint was cracked and this was a river over here, it's so funny, names are different kinds of words. I have often mentioned to you when I am at a bus station or a train station I can never eat in the dining room because it is usually called Terminal Diner or Terminal Lounge. The name George is a difficult name to grow up with, with everyone always singing that silly song to you. Georgie Porgie, no other name he had. a silly song all the time 37 times a day George pudding pie kissed the girls and made them cry maybe he made them cry why would they cry when the boys went out to play Georgie Porgie ran away whoa Whoa man George let George do it all? those fools in the commercials ring around George Bad Name you gotta stay away from that Melvin I feel sorry for Melvin and the Irvings people make fun of those names Percy Melvin Irving as our outgoing Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird he scared me during the amchika h- bomb countdown they were covering on the radio here with the big explosion approaching in two hours and 15 minutes, the big mountain Big H, they kept mentioning that Melvin Laird might cancel the test and I thought the guy in charge Of all the h-poms, his name is Melvin, I hope he's not mad at us, you know, oh, the name that was used the most in history has to have been the name of Jesus, uh, Jesus Christ, not really It was a first and last name situation. we treat it that way, Jesus Christ, it sounds like that Harry Anderson Bill Willman Jesus Christ, it just seems that way, but I often wonder if he had had a different last name, another Jewish name, flower, if he had been Jesus Bloom, how different things would have been .

First of all, Christians would have been really baggy and people wouldn't have taken them seriously. You know, one of the Bloomers is here. Get the Bloomers out of here. You would have a Bloomer University of Texas and a Bloomer Young Men's Association and in August. Bloom would say, it's hot. I'm almost speechless at the moment. I only have seven left. You know them. I can't say them, but everyone knows what they are and at home they might think it's funny. Sir, every time you work, my mind also clicks, that's why I like it when you're around, it stimulates, thank you, you're talking about those terms, you know they use, you know, full court, do you mind which one, full court? court, yeah sure, you go to a grocery store, it's a full court, why not?

Well, a huge quarter pounder, how can a quarter pounder be huge? You know, but they use those terms, a full court, yeah, you're like: I'm just trying to save him, Johnny. Yeah, you know, I'd like to make a whole book about them if I could collect them all my life, they jump out of the newspaper, really, yeah, that's crazy, the names are interesting, we have an Edie who came down, believe it or not, from above. but we shouldn't use the word name Bruce in connection with anything because if we say a guy has a tendency, well, let's say he slips a little, Bruce would say, now all of a sudden you believe that.

I mean, I know a lot of guys who Skip that aren't named Bruce more than I do. I don't understand at all why that should be sure they have a connotation, they have truckers and longshoremen and uh. you know guys hey let's go unload the truck yeah there was nothing wrong with the first one if that's the way you live anywhere there's probably nothing wrong with that but there was never anything intentional about that , you see when we did it, it was strange, oh. yeah, oh, but that's the standard comedian name to use whatever you say, uh, when you do that line, I mean, I think I've heard it as the standard name to use, but you wonder why it started because becausethe sea can make you wheeze Bruth, that's funny, yes, that has to be the reason, how about Sydney?

Well, I mean, no, do you think it's okay? I'll probably do it very soon too. Arnold will be the only thing we can use and if we started, people would say. Oh, we know what you're doing. Arnold really means that Bruce thinks we'll be back upstairs shortly after this full minute.