George Carlin — "I'm a collector of words. I'm a word nerd. I love words. I love how they sound, …"
I'm a collector of words. I'm a word nerd. I love words. I love how they sound, how they look, how they feel, how they taste. I love how they make me think, how they make me feel, how they make me laugh, how they make me cry. I love how they make me understand, how they make me wonder, how they make me question. I love words.
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American stand-up comedian whose 'Seven Words You Can't Say on Television' (1972) reached the Supreme Court and reshaped US obscenity law.
Closely associated with
Richard Pryor (countercultural-comedy peer) and Lenny Bruce (predecessor in obscenity-law fights).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Tipper Gore, co-founder of the Parents Music Resource Center — the PMRC's 1985 Senate hearings on 'explicit' content labeling are exactly the cultural-establishment force Carlin's free-speech comedy was organized against.