Comedian George Carlin developed a routine that used a host of dirty words, to great comic effect. University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. We simply hold that when the Commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene. In FCC v.Pacifica Foundation, decided on this day, the Court upheld the FCC in a 54 vote, ruling that seven words in a routine by the comedian George Carlin could be banned in radio broadcasts. Justice Sutherland wrote, a ‘nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place, like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard’. You can hear the seven dirty words here: In March 2015 the Library of Congress honored George Carlin by placing his Class Clown album, with its famous seven dirty words monologue, on the National Recording Registry, a preserved collection of America’s greatest cultural, artistic and historical recordings. Now, he has a chance to explain his views to the big guy up there, as his heart failed him at the age of 71. In Seven Dirty Words, journalist and cultural critic James Sullivan tells the story of Alternative America from the 1950s to the present, from the singular vantage point of George Carlin, the Catholic boy for whom nothing was sacred. The monologue with the seven dirty words ( “Filthy Words”) is available on the CD Class Clown (1972) and then in a different version, “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” on Operation Foole (1973). George Carlin had always thought religion was bullshit. You can find the words in the Supreme Court’s opinion, but you just can’t hear them on the radio (or network television). In case you were wondering, the seven dirty words are: shit, piss, cunt, fuck, tits, cocksucker, and motherfucker.
The Pacifica Foundation, which owned WBAI, took an appeal to the Supreme Court. A listener complained and the FCC issued WBAI a citation for broadcasting obscene material. At one point the monologue was broadcast on WBAI, a nonprofit radio station in New York City. Pacifica Foundation, decided on this day, the Court upheld the FCC in a 5–4 vote, ruling that seven words in a routine by the comedian George Carlin could be banned in radio broadcasts.Ĭomedian George Carlin developed a routine that used a host of dirty words, to great comic effect.
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