Life Is Worth Losing

Life Is Worth Losing is the 18th album and thirteenth HBO special by American comedian George Carlin. It was recorded simultaneously with the live broadcast of the HBO special of the same title, his 13th HBO stand-up comedy special, and was his final special recorded from the Beacon Theater. The set was designed to resemble a snow-coated graveyard. It is the first project Carlin had undertaken since completing drug rehabilitation in 2005.[2]

Life Is Worth Losing
Live album by
George Carlin
ReleasedJanuary 10, 2006
RecordedNovember 5, 2005, Beacon Theater, New York City, New York
GenreComedy
Length71:20
LabelEardrum/Atlantic
ProducerGeorge Carlin
George Carlin chronology
Complaints and Grievances
(2001)		 Life Is Worth Losing
(2006)		 It's Bad for Ya
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Early on in the program, Carlin proudly announces that he was 341 days sober at the time of the recording, and that 2006 would be his 50th year in show business.

Production

A DVD of the show was released on February 27, 2007 by MPI Home Video.

Awards

The album was nominated for Best Comedy Album for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards making it his seventh album to be nominated for a Grammy award since 1966. It lost to Lewis Black's The Carnegie Hall Performance.

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

Charts
Chart (2005) Peak position
US Billboard Top Comedy Albums Chart 4

References
  1. Life Is Worth Losing at AllMusic
  2. New York Times


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