As you've doubtless heard, comedian George Carlin died yesterday from heart failure. He was 71. For some reason, the first thing that popped into my mind was the title of his 1988 HBO special, What Am ...
Nearly 14 years after his death, his provocative humor has been embraced by people across the political spectrum. What happens when comedy outlasts the era it was made for? Credit...Illustration by ...
A new George Carlin special is out. But it's not really George Carlin, the brilliant and audacious comedian who died in 2008, just days after he was named to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American ...