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Jun 23, 2008 6:52 pm US/Eastern

Baltimoreans React To Comedy Icon Carlin's Death

BALTIMORE (WJZ) ― One of America's comedic geniuses, George Carlin, has died of heart failure at the age of 71.

Richard Sher reports in his 50 years of making people laugh, Carlin was the counterculture hero, whose famous seven words you can never say on TV, were ruled indecent by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978.

"Carlin was the best. He was the comedian's comedian," said comedian Andrew Dice Clay.

Here in Baltimore, Timmy Hall, a 17-year police veteran and part-time stand up comic, reacted to Carlin's death.

"He taught the rest of us freedom of speech. His passing is going to hurt all of us. There was no one else like him," Hall said.

George Carlin recorded 22 albums, starred in 14 HBO specials, won four Grammys and wrote three best-selling books.

He was scheduled to receive the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Humor in November.

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