Life
Is Worth Losing would be fun film if it wasn't so real, enjoy the film clip
below
George
Carlin - Life Is Worth Losing... George Carlin, Roc.. "You have to be
asleep to believe it." A short excerpt from the video "Life Is
Worth Losing" (2005).
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.
5.0
out of 5 starsFar 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-7/12/08: 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.}
MovieShame.
There have always been lots of movies that show or exploit sex, but far fewer
that try to explore it seriously, as a rich, meaningful subject, whether
psychological or social...
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