"Especially the fun animal shows because he would do all the voices and it was way more entertaining than the actual show," she says.
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Kelly says watching TV together - The Carol Burnett Show, Wild Kingdom - was a riot. Long absences and drugs aside, A Carlin Home Companion also includes moments of George Carlin as a pretty cool and caring dad. He packed shows on college campuses his comedy albums were best-sellers he was a regular on TV variety shows hosted by Flip Wilson and Tony Orlando and he was stirring up trouble - and making history - with "Seven Dirty Words." In 1975, he became the very first host of a new show called Saturday Night Live.
Meantime, in the 1970s, George Carlin's career was soaring. Was Mom drunk? Was she just waking up and had a hangover? Had Dad been up for a few days with cocaine, or was he just smoking some weed and he's just, you know, kind of mellow? Have they been arguing, are they getting along? Walking on eggshells doesn't even begin to explain it." Very early on, Kelly says she became an expert at figuring out what drugs her parents were on. "I spent the rest of the vacation as far away from them as I could," she writes, and "pretended" to everyone she met that she was having "the perfect Hawaiian vacation." Kelly writes that they resumed their habits the same day: Mateus rosé for Brenda cocaine for George.
Sadly, both parents broke it almost immediately.
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