# George Carlin in rehab?  Say it ain't so!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 28, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-carlin-in-rehab-say-it-aint-so/281854 "2004-12-28T01:26:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-carlin-in-rehab-say-it-aint-so/281854/41 "2004-12-29T18:55:17Z")

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Bwaaaaahahahaha! I love this little bit at the end:

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> Three weeks ago, he ended a four-year run at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, with a “dark set,” in the words of the New York Post’s “Page Six” column, and told his audience, “People who go to Las Vegas, you’ve got to question their [bleeping] intellect,” according to a report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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> He is scheduled to appear in a show at Las Vegas’ Stardust Hotel in February.

😃 I know they were trying to zing him, but it just fits him so perfectly to turn right around and schedule another Vegas run after saying something like that.

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**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-carlin-in-rehab-say-it-aint-so/281854/42 "2004-12-29T20:07:28Z")

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> [@Evil Captor](#):
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> If Carlin had advocated the wholesale jailing of drug addicts, like Limbaugh, I think you WOULD be hearing a few words on the topic from us. (Probably better suited for GD or the Pit, but wouldn’t want anybody to MISUNDERSTAND, y’know.)

Fair enough.

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