George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing

George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing (2005) is a stand-up special you can watch online on iFILM. It's Carlin's thirteenth solo show for HBO, taped at New York's Beacon Theatre and directed by Rocco Urbisci.

Carlin walks out darker than usual, and that's the whole point. Over seventy-odd minutes he dissects America's two favorite addictions, shopping and eating, pitches an All-Suicide Channel as the next great reality network, and describes with gleeful menace how the planet will scrub itself clean and bloom again once fire and flood finish wiping us out.

This was the first set he recorded after going through rehab that same year, and it ranks among his bleakest. Less everyday observation, more cold-eyed reckoning with the end of civilization. Pure late-period Carlin: corrosive, merciless, with no safety rails. Not the special to pick if you want comfortable comedy. Stream Life Is Worth Losing (2005) online on iFILM.