George Carlin Joked About Acne
George Carlin, the famous comic of his generation whose famous routine about the seven dirty words, and many other famous lines, had among others, a famous line about why he grew a beard and grew his hair out in the sixties when the hippie peace movement began to gain momentum and an “anti establishment” sentiment began to abound. He joked that he grew his beard out to cover up his facial acne, which of course wasn’t true, but it made for a good laugh.Â
Those of us who actually have acne know that facial hair actually aggravates it, after all 
 I had read this article about him, because he of course passed away recently, and I thought our little magazine could pay a little bit of tribute to the funny man, who died ultimately at the age of 71 of heart failure. George often even joked about death, and said he never wanted to see death coming whenever his time was up, that was his forte though, making light of subjects that everyone is typically loathe to talke about and is considered taboo.Â
But that’s what comedy is. It’s about making us laugh at sometimes scary things or even inappropriate happenings that we don’t know how to often deal with in our real lives. He made this stuff funny, and he was actually a huge part of the sixties comedy scene with his controversial views on war, racism, and censorship.Â
He believed that no one should be censored, and many say that his motives for being in comedy were not to make boatloads of money, which is of course what happened naturally because of his talent anyways, but to make people laugh and think, and to get up on the stage and talk about whatever he wanted to talk about without being hassled or interfered with.Â
