George Carlin in an undated photo to promote his HBO special, "Its Bad For Ya." Carlin was born on May 12, 1937, and grew up in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, raised by a single mother. After dropping out of high school in the ninth grade, he joined the Air Force in 1954. While in the Air Force he started working as an off-base disc jockey at a radio station in Shreveport, La.
(Photo: AP Photo/HBO, Robert Sebree)
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