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Last Words: A Memoir by George Carlin with Tony Hendra is a humor available to read on EtoBox.

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SUMMARY: As one of America's preeminent comedic voices, George Carlin saw it all throughout his extraordinary fifty-year career and made fun of most of it. Last Words is the story of the man behind some of the most seminal comedy of the last half century, blending his signature acer-bic humor with never-before-told stories from his own life.In 1993 George Carlin asked his friend and bestselling author Tony Hendra to help him write his autobiography. For almost fifteen years, in scores of conversations, many of them recorded, the two discussed Carlin's life, times, and evolution as a major artist. When Carlin died at age seventy-one in June 2008 with the book still unpublished, Hendra set out to assemble it as his friend would have wanted. Last Words is the result, the rollicking, wrenching story of Carlin's life from birth -- literally -- to his final years, as well as a parting gift of laughter to the world of comedy he helped create.George Carlin's journey to stardom began in the rough-and-tumble neighborhood of New York's Upper West Side in the 1940s, where class and culture wars planted the seeds for some of his best known material, including the notorious "Seven Words You Can

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Author
George Carlin with Tony Hendra
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9781442303188
Category
humor
Subjects
Sports, Literary Fiction, Memoir
Rating
4.04 / 5 (9,374 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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