It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to…

“Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there’s a supreme being? There’s no proof of it. There’s no harm…

— Jesse Ventura

If I can make you laugh and learn, I want to be like George Carlin and Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy and Sam Kinison…

— Ralphie May

One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce, is that…

— Robert Klein

“Why do so many people need help?! Life is not that complicated. You get up, you go to work, eat three meals, you take…

— George Carlin

I listened to George Carlin when I was a kid and knew every word of his routines.

— Sean Hayes

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who…

— Hari Kondabolu

Thanks to people like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, it's real freedom to do stand-up comedy.

— Simon Amstell

Every day I think, 'Gosh, I wish I could be like George Carlin, Bill Maher: I want that edge.' But every time I start…

— Tom Smothers

“Fuck the drug war. Dropping acid was a profound turning point for me, a seminal experience. I make no apologies for it. More people…

— George Carlin

I'm a big fan of George Carlin's.

— Brian Van Holt

I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.

— Vicki Lawrence

You look at Richard Pryor and Robert Klein and George Carlin and Richard Lewis - those guys were so smart, they were the thinking-man…

— Ari Graynor

I never was obsessed with comedians. When I was a little, little boy, I'd watch, like, George Carlin on 'Dinah Shore.'

— Bobcat Goldthwait

When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny…

— Richard Lewis

When I used to see Rick Moranis do something, to me that was immediately funny. Or George Carlin or Martin Lawrence.

— Fred Armisen