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Complete List: 51st Annual Grammy Award Winners
Find out who left the Staples Center with a Grammy Award — and who went home with multiple awards on music’s biggest night!
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Grammy Pre-Show Winners List
The 51st Annual Grammy Awards kicked off with a number of awards announced before the ceremony — see the winners, from Radiohead to Lil Wayne, inside!
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Jon Stewart To Honor George Carlin At The Kennedy Center
Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and Margaret Cho are among an all-star lineup of entertainers who will honor the late comedian George Carlin at this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
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George Carlin Gets In One Last Laugh On Death
Just months before he died, George Carlin was looking into the face of death — and making it the butt of his jokes.
“You know what I’ve been doing? Going through my address book and crossing out the dead people. It gives you a feeling of power, of superiority, to have outlasted another old friend,” Carlin says on what turned out to be his final comedy album. The recording, “It’s Bad For Ya,” comes out Tuesday on Eardrum Records.
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Friends, Colleagues Remember George Carlin
Following the death of comic icon George Carlin on Sunday, those who knew him best and modeled their own careers in his shadow, react to the loss of a legend.
Carlin died from heart failure at the age of 71.
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George Carlin Mourned As A Counterculture Hero
George Carlin, the frenzied performer whose routine “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television” led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, has died.
Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. He was 71.
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Comic Legend George Carlin Dies
George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his “Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV” routine, died of heart failure Sunday.
He was 71.
Carlin went into a Santa Monica hospital Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham.
