He also starred as a cab driver in The George Carlin Show from 1993 to 1995.
Starting in 1991, he provided the voice of the train conductor on PBS' kid-friendly Shining Time Station for two years and narrated Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends through 1998. In the 1990s, Carlin enjoyed success with series television. Legacy and DeathĬarlin was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1987. In 2006, he provided the voice of Fillmore, a hippie Volkswagen bus, in the animated Cars. He also was featured in Kevin Smith's film Dogma (1999), in which he played Cardinal Glick, a fame-seeking religious figure. He took a more dramatic turn in The Prince of Tides (1991). Throughout his career, Carlin took on a number of comedic roles in films such as 1987's Outrageous Fortune and as Rufus, an emissary from the future, in 1990's Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. To Carlin's benefit, the widely publicized controversy led to an increase in book sales. One of my goals before I die was to see Carlin live and honored to say I accomplished that goal.
He was way before his time and just saw everything in a different light and loved every second of it. Two years later, syndicated columnist Mike Barnicle was suspended from the Boston Globe, after he had plagiarized passages from Carlin's book. He was a big part of my childhood and how I looked at the world. It spent 18 weeks on the New York Times' best-seller list. The book included his comedic take on life, society and politics. Carlin published Brain Droppings in 1997.
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