''It's Bad for Ya'' is the 19th album as well as the 14th and final

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 ...

stand-up comedy Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage (theatre), stage and delivers humour, humorous and satire, satirical monologues sometimes incorporating physical comedy, physical acts. These ...

special by stand-up 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 televised live on March 1, 2008, on HBO, less than four months before his death. The album is the follow-up to the 2005 HBO special '' Life Is Worth Losing''. Carlin worked on this material since ending his ''Life Is Worth Losing'' tour. The working title for this show was ''The Parade of Useless Bullshit''. Filmed in the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts in

Santa Rosa, California Santa Rosa (Spanish language, Spanish for "Rose of Lima, Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, California, Sonoma County, in the North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, Bay A ...

, the show's stage behind Carlin was designed to represent a cozy living room theme. The CD was released July 29, 2008, and the DVD and Blu-ray Disc on November 25, 2008. ''It's Bad for Ya'' received the

Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album The Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album is presented by the The Recording Academy, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement in comedy." The award was awarded yearly from 1959 to 1993 and t ...

, awarded posthumously.

Track listing

# "Opening" – 1:30 # "Old Fuck" – 3:45 # "Goin' Through My Address Book" – 2:52 # "Things We Say When People Die" – 2:36 # "He's Smiling Down" – 2:11 # "Parents in Hell" – 1:08 # "People Refuse to Be Realistic" – 1:10 # "Dead Parents Helping" – 3:59 # "A Couple of Other Questions" – 1:04 # "Today's Professional Parents" – 5:48 # "The Self-Esteem Movement" – 1:16 # "Every Child Is Special" – 1:42 # "Children Are Our Future" – 0:39 # "Raisin' a Child Is Not Difficult" – 0:42 # "I Like People" – 0:51 # "Stupid Bullshit" – 3:12 # "Stupid Bullshit on the Phone" – 2:33 # "What a Phone Call Should Be" – 0:54 # "In a Coma" – 0:49 # "Their Kids!" – 1:09 # "They Want to Show You the Pictures" – 4:29 # "Just Enough Bullshit" – 1:33 # "No One Questions Things" – 2:55 # "Proud to Be an American" – 1:47 # "God Bless America" – 2:59 # "Takin' Off Yer Hat" – 3:04 # "Swearing on the Bible" – 4:23 # "You Have No Rights" – 5:14

Award and nominations

The live HBO performance special was nominated for an

Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with their own set of rules and award categor ...

for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards. It lost to '' Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project''. The audio recording of the special won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album in the

51st Grammy Awards The 51st Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, on February 8, 2009, honoring the best in music for the recording year beginning October 1, 2007, through September 30, 2008. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss were the ...

Charts

References

External links

George Carlin's Official Website
* 2000s American television specials 2000s comedy albums 2008 live albums 2008 television specials Atlantic Records live albums Eardrum Records live albums George Carlin live albums Stand-up comedy albums Spoken word albums by American artists Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album HBO network specials Live albums published posthumously Stand-up comedy specials and films {{comedy-album-stub