Janey Godley - You can't say them in a paper either…rest in peace, George

ONE of the world's most outrageous, funny and well-respected stand-up comics died last Sunday. You may not be familiar with the name George Carlin, but he was a huge star in the US for many years and, thanks to the wonders of the internet, he garnered millions of fans around the planet in his later years.

Carlin started his comedy career in the early 1960s and followed the then-typical route of recreational drugs and hard living. He was the first comedian to host Saturday Night Live in the US. He worked all the small, back-street, underground comedy ...