Filmmaker Judd Apatow has revealed that he is currently working on a documentary about legendary comedian George Carlin.
Speaking with The Boston Globe this week, Apatow says he and Michael Bonfiglio are getting to work on the project and he’s “looking forward to watching a lot of Carlin interviews and specials.”
Carlin was dubbed the “dean of counterculture comedians,” famed for his intelligence, social criticism and playfulness with the English language which often formed the basis of his routines from the problems of soft language (“somewhere along the way toilet paper became bathroom tissue”) to his famed ‘seven dirty words’ routine which made headlines.
Carlin made over a dozen stand-up comedy specials for HBO which hold up now in ways many other routines from the same period do not. He also appeared in films from “Dogma” to the “Bill & Ted” movies, and died of heart failure at the age of 71.
