Check Out These Previously Unreleased George Carlin Routines From The Set That Got Him Arrested!!

Comedian George Carlin was arrested at Summerfest for uttering out loud and often the seven dirty words you can't say on TV, and the charges were later dismissed.

Lenz is named as the complainant on the citation charging Carlin with disorderly conduct. After the district attorney refused to file a state criminal charge in the matter, the police marched over to the city offices and got one there.

Carlin, who was freed on $150 bail, was unapologetic. In an on-camera interview at the time (and included in the excellent documentary "Summerfest Stories" that recently aired on Milwaukee Public TV), he said, "I wouldn't have changed anything I did if I had known there were children in the audience. I think children need to hear those words the most because as yet they don't have the hang-ups. It's adults who are locked into certain thought patterns."

"I find it kind of funny to be hassled for using them [the words that I can't repeat here in a family newspaper even in 2007] when my intention is to free us from hassling people for using them," said Carlin

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