Genre:
Comedy
Directed
by: Steven Santos
Cast:
George Carlin
Time:
60 minutes
This is George Carlin’s third HBO comedy
special, shot live from the famous Carnegie Hall, in New York City. The show
contains a lot of material from his album titled A Place for My Stuff, though
the title bit is not there.
Carlin is starting to look older here, but he’s
none the weaker. In fact, his pace is getting stronger and stronger. The angry
edge that would define his material in later years is slowly starting to come
through here, though there is still some cute stuff, like the bits about Rice
Krispies, being a fussy eater and dogs vs cats. From the get-go, the comedian
starts with a straightforward short joke about abortion and then discusses his
recent heart attack in a dark and funny way. Carlin closes with a great updated
bit about the dirty words. That final list he reads has a great comedic pace to
it.
In this show from Carnegie Hall, we get to
see the slow transformation of George Carlin into the comedian he would become
in later years. It is a very good show.
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