''Life Is Worth Losing'' is the 18th album and 13th HBO special by American comedian

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. It was recorded simultaneously with the live broadcast of the

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special of the same title, his 13th HBO stand-up comedy special, and was his final special recorded from the Beacon Theatre. The set was designed to resemble a snow-coated graveyard. It is the first project Carlin had undertaken since completing

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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

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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
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