Product Description

George Carlin returns to the stage in Life is Worth Losing, his 13th live comedy stand-up special, performed at the Beacon Theatre in New York City for HBO®.

Carlin’s spot-on observations on the deterioration of human behavior include Americans’ obsession with their two favorite addictions - shopping and eating; his creative idea for The All-Suicide Channel, a new reality TV network; and the glorious rebirth of the planet to its original pristine condition - once the fires and floods destroy life as we know it.

Life is Worth Losing includes:

A Modern Man, Three Little Words, The Suicide Guy, Extreme Human Behavior, The All-Suicide Channel, Dumb Americans, Pyramid of the, Hopeless, Autoerotic Asphyxia, Posthumous Female Transplants, Yeast Infection, Excess: Fires and Floods, Coast-to-Coast Emergency.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9943 in DVD
• Brand: MPI HOME VIDEO
• Released on: 2007-02-27
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 75 minutes

Customer Reviews

Far too honest for today's USA
This is the logical progression of Carlin's humor as the hippy dippy weatherman ages: he's gittin' cranky as he sees things becoming worse instead of better. We ain't evolving, we're becoming desensitized to all manner of atrocitae, and George is here to stick our noses in it.

Dark yes, funny yes, not perfect yes. But give the man props for having the balls to call it as he sees it, decade after decade.

{Edit: And now that he's gone, my guess is this show will be seen in the light it deserves: a truly intelligent and trenchant social commentator telling the truth about modern America...whether we like it or not.

Looking at some of the negative reviews here, I have to laugh at their complaints about how dark this is and proclaiming that GC's lighter side is where it's at. So an artist can't ever stray from what works for him and move into new avenues of perception? He can't simply tell the truth as he sees it, even if it's not always funny?

I think George more than earned the right to give us a dead-on rant like this. He made us laugh for over forty years. So at the end of his life he ain't allowed to call it precisely as he sees it...and as it truly is? Damn right he's got the right. He earned it. Plus, there is endless truth here. Too bad for those who can only handle jokey jokes. And hell, there are plenty of laughs, but they're aimed at those who dig Monty Python or Bill Hicks more than Andrew Dice Clay or Joan Rivers.

For those who appreciate a rare shaft of truthlight cutting through the cloud cover of 21st century bs, it doesn't get much more direct and correct than this.

Rest in peace, George. You did your job as well as any comedian who ever lived. Maybe better.}

Reality bites
Carlin has lost it. That's right; he's lost all inhibition and is willing to give his always topical subject manner both barrels. Is it funny, yes, but darkly so.

If you didn't think this show was funny it's probably because Carlin was talking about you.

All very true, just no humor in it
I have loved George Carlin since I was a teenager and although I may have not have agreed with some of his views along the way, or sometimes thought he went a little too far, I could always laugh at his material, even when it may have hit a bit too personal, I could still see the ridiculousness of the situation. That being said, I was deeply disappointed in this show. It was all VERY true, and he hit the nail right on the head with a lot of the problems in this country, it just wasn't funny. As a speech, or a monaloge, it was brilliant. It was very deep, it made you think and made you nod in agreement at times, but it did not make you laugh, the very thing a stand up COMEDY show should do.
George was always controversial, he always stepped on peoples toes and made no apology for it. -And that's what we loved! But he did it with a twist of irony, a chance to see the absurdity in the world around us. This show was NOT George, George would slam us all for our laziness, our consumption, our greed, and in that he'd show us how ridiculous we were. This George was the angry Uncle Dave, spewing his anger from his armchair, one rant after another, no pauses. George would hold up a mirror to our society, and show us how silly we were. The George here was just the angry parent berating us for our stupidity. As a commentary on the world around us, it's amazing. -As a respite and a chance to laugh, it was horrible. Just keep that in mind. If you are looking for serious social commentary, go ahead and buy it. If you're looking for laughs, look to his earlier works.