Legendary american comedian & actor

All All. Sign In. Top 25 Greatest Comedians of All Time. The greatest comedians to have ever lived. List activity. George Carlin. His father was from Donegal, Ireland, and his mother was Irish-American. His parents divorced when he was two months old, and he was raised by his mother.

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The long hours the mother worked left the young George by himself for long hours every day, providing him in his own words , the time he needed to think about various subjects, listen to radio, and practice his impersonations, that where acclaimed by his mother and coworkers since an early age. Carlin started out as a conventional comedian and had achieved a fair degree of success as a Bill Cosby style raconteur in nightclubs and on TV until the late s, when he radically overhauled his persona.

His routines became more insightful, introducing more serious subjects. As he aged, he became more cynic and bitter, unintentionally changing his stage persona again in a radical way throughout the '90s.