''Life Is Worth Losing'' is the 18th album and 13th

HBO Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television service, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is based a ...

special by American comedian

George Carlin George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author. Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential comedians of all time, he was dubbed "the dean of countercultur ...

. It was recorded simultaneously with the live broadcast of the special and was his final special recorded at the Beacon Theatre. The special was the first project Carlin had undertaken since completing

drug rehabilitation Drug rehabilitation is the process of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and street drugs such as cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and amphetamines. The general int ...

in 2005. Early on in the program, Carlin announced that he was 341 days

sober Sober usually refers to sobriety, the state of not having any measurable levels or effects from alcohol or drugs. Sober may also refer to: Music * Sôber, Spanish rock band Songs * "Sober" (Bad Wolves song), from the 2019 album ''Nation'' * " ...

at the time of the recording, and that 2006 would be his 50th year in show business. Much of the material in the special focuses on topics such as torture, depression, suicide and genocide, and the stage is adorned with

tombstones A gravestone or tombstone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave. A marker set at the head of the grave may be called a headstone. An especially old or elaborate stone slab may be called a funeral stele, stela, or slab. The us ...

. Carlin later revealed that he had been suffering from heart failure during the recording of the special and was subsequently hospitalized for a short time afterward. Portions of "Coast-to-Coast Emergency" were originally part of a routine titled "Uncle Dave", intended for a planned 2001 Carlin special to be titled ''I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die'', which was reworked after the

September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into ...

and retitled ''

Complaints and Grievances ''Complaints and Grievances'' is the 17th album and 12th HBO stand-up special by comedian George Carlin. It was nominated for the Grammy Awards of 2003, 2003 Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, Best Spoken Comedy Album. Produc ...

''. A live recording of "Uncle Dave" was later issued on the 2016 posthumous release '' I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die'', derived from cassette tapes from Carlin's personal collection. ''Life Is Worth Losing'' was nominated for

Best Comedy Album Best Comedy Album may refer to: * Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album * Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year * Canadian Comedy Award for Best Comedy Album * New Music Award for Best Comedy Album * Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award for Best Comedy Album ...

at the

49th Annual Grammy Awards The 49th Annual Grammy Awards was a ceremony honoring the best in music for the recording year beginning October 1, 2005, and ending September 30, 2006, in the United States. The awards were handed out on Sunday, February 11, 2007, at the Stapl ...

, but lost to

Lewis Black Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. His comedy routines often escalate into angry rants about history, politics, religion and cultural trends. He hosted the Comedy Central series ''Lewis Black's ...

's '' The Carnegie Hall Performance''. A DVD of the special was released on February 27, 2007, by

MPI Home Video MPI Media Group is an American producer, distributor and licensor of theatrical film and home entertainment. MPI's subsidiaries include MPI Pictures, MPI Home Video, Gorgon Video, and the horror film distributor Dark Sky Films. The company is ...

Track listing

#"A Modern Man" – 3:53 #"Three Little Words" – 3:51 #"The Suicide Guy" – 7:06 #"Extreme Human Behavior" – 13:41 #"The All-Suicide TV Channel" – 3:13 #"Dumb Americans" – 10:57 #"Pyramid of the Hopeless" – 8:43 #"Autoerotic Asphyxia" – 4:54 #"Posthumous Female Transplants" – 3:34 #"Yeast Infection" – 4:38 #"Coast-to-Coast Emergency" – 6:50

Charts

References

External links

George Carlin's Official Website
* 2000s American television specials HBO network specials Stand-up comedy specials and films George Carlin live albums Stand-up comedy albums Spoken word albums by American artists Live spoken word albums 2006 live albums Atlantic Records live albums Eardrum Records live albums 2006 television specials 2000s comedy albums {{2000s-comedy-film-stub