George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing Page #3

Synopsis: George Carlin continues making people laugh with his 13th HBO stand-up special.
Director(s): Rocco Urbisci
  Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.4
TV-MA
Year:
2005
75 min
2,809 Views


Goddam it!"

I just think that's interesting as hell!

That's probably the most interesting

thing you can do with your life!

End it!

I don't think I could that, though!

Could you? God!

I couldn't commit suicide

if my life depended on it!

But I understand it, you know?

I think I do...

I don't wonder about it! I don't

wonder:
"Why did he do that?"

"What was going through his

mind?" You know what I wonder?

Where do you find the f***ing time?

Who's got time to be committing suicide?

Aren't you busy? I've got sh*t to do!

Suicide would be way down

on my list...

...probably down past lighting

my own house on fire!

Am I wanna try a little

self-mutilation first?

You know? Take a couple of

hunks out of my arm...

See if I like the general idea...!

Cause you gotta have

priorities, man! You know?

And you gotta have a plan, too, for

something like that! Gotta plan that sh*t!

People don't just run out the

house and jump off a bridge!

There are things you

have to decide!

Timing is important!

When are you gonna do it?

"Welll, let me see it now...!"

"Wednesday's out. Gotta take

Timmy to the circus...!"

"Survivors's on on Thursday!"

"Friday, I've got my colon cleansing..."

"Folks are coming over on Sunday..."

"Sunday...!"

By God, that'll be just the thing!

Maybe Mum will find my body!

Serves her right for f***ing me up

the way she did!

Then you have to pick a method!

How are you gonna do it?

Well, let me see it now...!

I'm afraid of heights, that's no good!

Can't swallow pills,

Don't like the sight of blood...!

F***ing ovens are electric...!

I'd lay out in front of a

train, except damn track

ain't coming through here

in thirty goddam years!

Maybe I'll just take a gun

and shoot myself in the mouth!

Huh... Suppose I miss!

People'll be laughing at me!

Suppose I live...!

I'd have a big f***ing hole in my head!

I'd have to wear some kind

of dumbass hat!

Well, I guess I'll just hang myself!

That'll be good!

Gotta get a rope!

Oh, sh*t! There's always something...!

I've got a rope

in the garage...!

Ah! It's got a lot of

grease and paint on it!

Don't want to get that

stuff on my neck!

Wal-Mart is having a special

on rope this weekend!

No sense in spending a lot of money

to kill myself!

Then again, I can always

put it on my credit card,

and never have to pay

the f***ing thing!

Eh, that's it, then! I'm hanging myself

and Wal-Mart is paying for it!

What's next? A note...!

Oh, Jesus!

Gotta express myself!

Hell, if I gotta express myself I wanna

be thinking a note or something, I guess...

Where's the pen? Can never

find a pen!

Told the kids not to move the pen

away from that telephone! Goddam kids!

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George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic. Carlin was noted for his black comedy and reflections on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. He and his "seven dirty words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a 5–4 decision affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comics; one newspaper called Carlin "the dean of counterculture comedians". In April 2004, he placed second on the Comedy Central list of "Top 10 Comedians of US Audiences".The first of Carlin's 14 stand-up comedy specials for HBO was filmed in 1977. From the late 1980s, Carlin's routines focused on sociocultural criticism of American society. He often commented on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirized the excesses of American culture. He was a frequent performer and guest host on The Tonight Show during the three-decade Johnny Carson era, and hosted the first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975. His final HBO special, It's Bad for Ya, was filmed less than four months before his death. In 2008, he was posthumously awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him second (behind Richard Pryor) on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time. more…

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