Kelly Marie Carlin-McCall is an American writer, actress, producer, monologist, and Internet radio host.
Background
Carlin was born in Dayton, Ohio, the only child of comedian George Carlin and his first wife, Brenda Hosbrook. She began her career in entertainment as a production assistant and photographer for two of her father"s early Home Box Office specials: George Carlin: Again!.
Education
By 1993, she had left her first husband and graduated magna cum laude from University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications Studies.
Career
And Carlin on Campus. She also co-wrote the script for the 1998 film Devil in the Flesh starring Rose McGowan. In the late 1990s she began to stray away from mainstream media and began writing, producing and hosting an early Internet series, as well as performing a one-person show entitled "Driven to Distraction" about her childhood, struggles with drugs and alcohol, poor personal relationships, and her mother"s untimely death in May 1997.
In 2001, she earned a Master"s degree in Jungian depth psychology and expressed an interest in becoming a therapist, but later returned to stage performing.
After her father"s death in June 2008, Carlin had initially discussed publishing an oral history of her father"s life based on stories by friends and family. By December 2009, however, she had shelved that project and began to focus on her own memoirs.
She was also a producer for the second season of The Green Room with Paul Provenza in 2011. As of February 2013, she hosts The Kelly Carlin Show the first Sunday of every month on Sirius XM Radio"s Raw Dog Comedy, and Waking From The American Dream every Thursday on SModcast Internet Radio.