{"id":88,"date":"2009-01-12T18:57:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T23:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/?p=88"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:05:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:05:56","slug":"my-comedian-hero-george-carlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/video\/all-interviews\/my-comedian-hero-george-carlin\/88\/","title":{"rendered":"George Carlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-88-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/george.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/george.mp4\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/george.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>George Carlin<\/strong>: Well, I had always\u2014I was a disc jockey.\u00a0 I was in Shreveport Louisana, I had\u2014I was out of the Air Force living with a roommate in an apartment building.\u00a0 He worked at one radio station, I worked at another.\u00a0 And he came home one night and said, \u201cMan, I heard about this guy Lenny Bruce, you know.\u201d\u00a0 And I was a big fan of comedy and I knew that was my next step, \u201cI\u2019ll get out of radio, I\u2019ll be a comic.\u201d\u00a0 And I liked\u2014let\u2019s see, that would have been nineteen fift\u2014hold on for me a second here.\u00a0 That would have been 1958 or nine.\u00a0 So some of that ferment was, was begun, had begun and I was\u2014I guess I knew some, about some of it.\u00a0 But he said \u201cLenny Bruce,\u201d and I didn\u2019t know anything about Lenny Bruce.\u00a0 And he got the album, \u201cInterviews of Our Time,\u201d on Fantasy Records, it was a combination\u2014Henry Jacobs did the album and Lenny was on it, in a 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