Sad day.
Here\’s the IHT\’s obituary. And here\’s one with perhaps less detail and more information.
At one point in my teens I had several of his sketches memorized. Well, not exactly memorized, as that would imply that I had put effort into trying to remember them. It was more that the cassette tapes were starting to wear out from the playing and replaying.
http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/int/2008/02/28/carlin/index.html
An interview with him this year February – the last question/answer is great.