George Carlin Interview Part 1 of 7

see the full interview at In part 1 of his 7part Archive interview Carlin describes his early comedic talents and how, as a teenager, he would record bits on a tape recorder and play them back for friends. He talks about the influences from the movies (particularly Danny Kayes films) and early television (such as the variety series Broadway Open House) on his comic sensibilities. He then chronicles his early life through the Air Force, as a disk jockey, and as half of a comedy team with Jack Burns, leading to his first professional appearance on television on Jack Paars Tonight Show. He notes various breaks along the way and talks about going solo, working as a standup comedian for several years, before he got back into making television appearances on such programs as The Ed Sullivan Show. He speaks in detail about his infamous Seven Dirty Words monologue and the FCC case that resulted from it (filed against WBAI radio, for obscenity), b br, br,