Jon Stewart, Lily Tomlin honor George Carlin
The late comedian George Carlin — famous for those "Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV" — was honored Monday with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the only award he saw as a legitimate comedy prize.
Jon Stewart, Lily Tomlin, Joan Rivers and others saluted Carlin at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for inspiring their own comedy, and they took up his cause of pushing the boundaries of free speech.
On the red carpet before the show, Stewart said he was about 10 years old when Carlin's album "Class Clown" was released. Stewart said it made him the funniest kid at school until his friends also found Carlin's work.
"For all his antiestablishment cred, he was a working man. He punched in. He sat down and he wrote," Stewart said. "He respected what he did."
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