An osteopathic physician, or D.O., is a board-certified physician fully licensed to practice in every state and in more than 65 countries. An osteopathic physician, or D.O., is a board-certified physician fully licensed to practice in every state and in more than 65 countries.
In 2004, Carlin was placed second on the Comedy Central list of Top 10 Comedians of US Audiences compiled for an April 2004 special. The first of his 14 stand-up comedy specials for HBO was filmed in 1977. From the late 1980s, Carlin's routines focused on sociocultural criticism of American society. He often commented on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirized the excesses of American culture.
Carlin was born in Manhattan, New York. He was the younger son of The Sun advertising manager Patrick Carlin (1888â1945), an immigrant from County Donegal, Ireland, and secretary Mary Beary-Carlin (born c. 1905), who was an American of Irish ancestry. While he came from a Catholic family, Carlin rejected religion.arlin was honored at the 1997 Aspen Comedy Festival with a retrospective, George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy, hosted by Jon Stewart. His first hardcover book, Brain Droppings (1997), sold nearly 900,000 copies and spent 40 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.