George Carlin — "I'm not a comedian. I'm a social critic. I'm a philosopher. I'm a poet. I'm a wr…"
I'm not a comedian. I'm a social critic. I'm a philosopher. I'm a poet. I'm a writer. I'm a performer. I'm an artist. I'm a human being. I'm a man. I'm a man of constant sorrow, and I'm a man of constant sorrow, and I'm a man of constant sorrow.
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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.