Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Carlin John Atashian/Getty Images In 1972, comedian George Carlin delivered one of the most iconic bits in stand-up history ...

George Carlin rose to prominence as a stand-up comedian in the 1960s and '70s, reinventing himself multiple times over a career that reveled in the use of language and took sharp aim at society. The ...

George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" was so far ahead of its time -- or maybe just so plain profane -- in 1972 that you still can't utter the Big Seven on prime-time broadcast ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Talk about irony. George Carlin spent decades pushing the bounds of free speech by saying the seven words you can never say on television, but not one of them made it into an FBI ...

George Carlin, the standup comic who defined the comedy counterculture and went to the Supreme Court to defend his “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” routine, died Sunday of heart failure ...