Patrick Carlin, the comedian and actor who had a huge impact on his younger brother George Carlin, died on April 16 at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Hollywood. He was 90 years old.
Carlin’s death was confirmed by Kelly Carlin, niece and niece of George Carlin. George Carlin died at the age of 77 in June 2008.
“His uniqueness was that he was a philosopher and a tough philologist,” said Carlin. diverse About her uncle who was her father’s only brother. She described Patrick as George’s protector during their growing years in a tough Irish neighborhood on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
“Pat was a street fighter and my father was the clown,” Carlin noted. George Carlin devoted a chapter to his brother in his recently published 2009 memoir “Last Words, Memoirs”. The chapter title was “Ace of Ace, Man of Men.”
“He was my dad’s hero,” said Kelly Carlin. “Pat has fed a lot of his ideas into the last 25 years of (George’s) career and got in touch with her.” She noted that Big Brother was “much less ambitious but they had this simple way of seeing the world.”
Patrick Carlin will feature prominently as the interview subject in the upcoming HBO documentary “George Carlin’s American Dream,” a two-part directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio. It is expected to start next month.
Patrick Carlin has worked as a writer for his brother sporadically over the years. In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked in Southern California as a radio DJ, hosting several programs on KROQ-FM in Los Angeles in its early days. He later wrote for Alan Thicke’s Late Night TV series “Thick of the Night”.
Recently, Carlin has focused on writing novels and hosting a audio notation “Patrick’s Hollywood Stock Connection.” Carlin suffered a fall on April 1, which led to a trip to the emergency room that ended with Carlin being on a ventilator in recent weeks.
Carlin lived for more than two decades in Woodstock, New York, his wife Marilyn died over 60 years ago about a year ago. After that, Carlin moved to Hollywood last year to live with his two sons Patrick Carlin and Dennis Carlin.
Carlin worked as a writer on the Fox comedy series “The George Carlin Show”, which ran for one season from 1994 to 1995. His debut novel, “Highway 23: The Unrepentant” was published in 2007. His follow-up to “Quien F! #kin’ Sabe?”, “A collection of quotes, poems, thoughts, and questions from a collection of fictional poems that I allow to hang in my head,” published in 2012.
Patrick Carlin also helped carry on his brother’s comedic legacy by providing the performance for the “Last Words” audiobook.
Kelly Carlin paid tribute to her uncle on social media.
“My dear Uncle Patrick has passed on to the spirit world,” Carlin wrote on Twitter. “He’s currently spinning tunes, and he’s smoking jale [with] Aunt Marilyn is shooting shit [with] his brother.”
My dear uncle Patrick has moved into the spirit world. He’s currently spinning tunes, smoking Jay with Aunt Marilyn and shooting shit with his brother.
He was a philosopher and a strong man rolled into one. pic.twitter.com/DyY0WupZGv
– Kelly Carlin (@kelly_carlin) April 17 2022
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