On "Salon Talks," Judd Apatow talks about the two-part HBO documentary he directed on George Carlin's life and work

As a new court ruling overturns the rules on TV cussing, a look back at the comic who helped start the debate

The National Comedy Center has the technology to resurrect favorite stand-up sets and isn't afraid to use it

The album was shelved at the time out of respect for police, but it's a different America now

Three years after the comic's death, there's a movement to give him a little bit of New York

A new posthumous collection, "I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die," features controversial 2001 material

Friday/weekend: Will "Oprah's Big Give" make the world a better place? Plus: What did you think of "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew" on Thursday?

Email chain reveals the network was seeking a "response" to report on effect of climate change on the U.S. economy

Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, May 15, 2001

Read Heather Havrilesky's last great interview with Carlin, in which he talks about cocaine, being a fallen idealist and the "exciting" Obama story, even though he didn't plan to vote.

The "Daily Show" correspondent has more to say than can fit in a field report

In Milwaukee in '72 the police waited for George Carlin offstage. In Manhattan, the audience couldn't get enough

Inside the hostile deals, network panic and last-minute scrambles that made history on October 11, 1975

Coulter walks all over Leno.

The bloviating billionaire makes crass jokes and lobs insults like hand grenades. This is presidential?