Product Details

• Actors: George Carlin
• Directors: Rocco Urbisci
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Mpi Home Video
• DVD Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Run Time: 75 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000K7VL4C
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,647 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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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.

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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Far too honest for today's USA, September 14, 2007

By	K. Swanson (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.}

17 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reality bites, May 6, 2007

By	B. Lane "baronl" (New York, New York USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Those Who Don't Find This Hilarious - Please Get Help!!, July 25, 2008

By	Katherine Graham - See all my reviews

Seriously, this incredibly precious slice-of-life-and-art from the never late but always magnificent George Carlin is an absolute thrill of a lifetime. One undoubtedly understands such a characterization as hyperbole and beyond. But - this performance of Life Is Worth Losing - sends the brilliantly paradoxical message (for the laughter that comes with near hysteria and an occasional gasp for breath...out of pure joy) because it says to someone like me (and others for sure) that life is worth living - if only to capture this courageous, groundbreaking genius-of-an-artist at work for all of us. And for anyone out there, who might shy away - for Carlin's trademarked, so to speak, political incorrectness - please consider that you have 3 choices, in my humble opinion: don't buy it which you will sadly come to regret when you are in dire need of a good laugh; or buy it with a glimmer of hope that you may find life more living via hilarity and the absolute remedy for these dire times, or seek help for perhaps not grasping how truly wonderful life is...George made that possible for most of my adult life in the bleakest of times. I am certain he can still do so (from Heaven, no doubt)...for anyone. Simply put, this is a 5-star keeper - for life!