Kelly Carlin

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Kelly Carlin
Born (1963-06-15) June 15, 1963 (age 60)
Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Occupations
  • Radio host
  • actress
  • screenwriter
  • producer
Years active1978–present
Spouses
Andrew Sutton
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(m. 1985;div. 1993)​
Robert McCall
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(m. 1998)​
Relatives George Carlin (father)
Website thekellycarlinsite.com

Kelly Marie Carlin (born June 15, 1963) is an American radio host, actress, screenwriter, and producer.

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Early life

Kelly Marie Carlin was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, on June 15, 1963, [1] [2] the only child of comedian George Carlin and his first wife Brenda Hosbrook. [3]

Career

Carlin has a BA in communications from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). [4] She began her career in entertainment as a production assistant and photographer for two of her father's early HBO specials: George Carlin: Again! and Carlin on Campus . In 1984, she co-starred in the George Carlin HBO TV show Apt. 2C of which only the pilot episode was ever made.

In 1994, Carlin co-wrote the episode "George Pulls the Plug" for the second season of The George Carlin Show with her second husband, Robert McCall. She also co-wrote the script for the 1998 film Devil in the Flesh starring Rose McGowan. In the late 1990s, she began to stray away from mainstream media and began writing, producing and hosting an early Internet series, as well as performing a one-person show entitled "Driven to Distraction" about her childhood, struggles with drugs and alcohol, poor personal relationships, and her mother's death in May 1997. [5] In 2001, she earned a master's degree in Jungian depth psychology and expressed an interest in becoming a therapist, but later returned to stage performing. [4]

After her father's death in June 2008, Carlin had initially discussed publishing an oral history of her father's life based on stories by friends and family. By December 2009, however, she had shelved that project and began to focus on her own memoirs. She also began interviewing legendary comedians in the "On Comedy" CD series for Marshall Berle's Laugh.com, of which her father was one of the founding partners. [5]

Carlin has regularly performed her one-person show A Carlin Home Companion (a play on A Prairie Home Companion by Garrison Keillor), detailing her experiences growing up with her famous father. [6] She was also a producer for the second season of The Green Room with Paul Provenza in 2011, and for a time hosted The Kelly Carlin Show on Sirius XM Radio's Raw Dog Comedy, and Waking From The American Dream on SModcast Internet Radio. Her book, A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up With George was published in 2015. In 2022, a 4-hour documentary she had a part in creating and starring in, George Carlin's American Dream was released on HBO Max. It was directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio. In May 2022, Kelly Carlin and Judd Apatow were interviewed on MSNBC to discuss the project.

In 2024, following the release of an unauthorized comedy special called I'm Glad I'm Dead that featured an audio deepfake of her father's voice reading a purportedly AI-generated script, Carlin tweeted, "My dad spent a lifetime perfecting his craft from his very human life, brain and imagination. No machine will ever replace his genius. These AI generated products are clever attempts at trying to recreate a mind that will never exist again. Let's let the artist's work speak for itself. [...] Here's an idea, how about we give some actual living human comedians a listen to? But if you want to listen to the genuine George Carlin, he has 14 specials that you can find anywhere." [7] [8] Carlin issued a lawsuit against the video's creators, in response to which a spokesperson for one of the team behind it said that the script had been written by a human author, Chad Kultgen, rather than an AI. [9]

Personal life

Carlin is a Buddhist. [10] [11]

Carlin was married to Andrew Sutton from 1985 until their divorce in 1993. She married Robert McCall in 1998. She has no children.

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References

  1. ↑ Carlin, George; Hendra, Tony (2009). Last Words. Free Press. pp.  150–151. ISBN   978-1-4391-7295-7.
  2. ↑ Kelly Carlin, A Carlin Home Companion, p. 264.
  3. ↑ Carlin, Kelly (September 15, 2015). A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George. St. Martin's Publishing Group. ISBN   978-1-4668-6238-8.
  4. 1 2 "Bio".
  5. 1 2 "Comedy Land: Kelly Carlin-McCall". Archived from the original on 2013-12-14. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  6. ↑ "Kelly Carlin – A Carlin Home Companion". Archived from the original on Jun 19, 2014.
  7. ↑ Zee, Michaela (Jan 11, 2024). "AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: 'No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius'".
  8. ↑ https://twitter.com/kelly_carlin/status/1745261544001466689
  9. ↑ Orland, Kyle (Jan 25, 2024). "Did an AI write that hour-long "George Carlin" special? I'm not convinced". Ars Technica.
  10. ↑ "Kelly Carlin | House of SpeakEasy NYC".
  11. ↑ "Kelly Carlin || the Human Path Toward Wholeness" – via YouTube.
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