the buzz log

Good-bye, George Carlin. We will miss your scathing wit, hoarse delivery, and never-wavering contrariness.

Without you, seven little words may never have been more than that, and audiences would have left comedy gigs unscathed by your rat-a-tat release. Death, selfishness, oxymorons, hypocrisy, and humankind's general lousiness never seemed so funny.

Since Carlin died on Sunday, hundreds of articles and obituaries have inundated the Buzz. In Search, demand for the comedian's name spiked more than 8,000%. The boost landed him in our top five movers, sandwiched between "living lohan" and "ugliest dog." We can only imagine what he would've thought of that.

Searches for "seven dirty words" also registered an uptick, while queries for "george carlin jokes" and "george carlin quotes" leapt. Now, as we tip our hat to the master satirist, we offer the top 10 funny guys (and one lady) who joined him among the most popular "quotes" searches yesterday...