''It's Bad for Ya'' is the 19th album as well as the 14th and final
HBO stand-up comedy special by stand-up comedian
George Carlin
George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American comedian, actor, author, and social critic. Regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians of all time, he was dubbed "the dean of countercu ...
. It was televised live on March 1, 2008, on HBO, less than four months before Carlin died of
heart failure at age 71.
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
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, 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, 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 for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special at the
60th Primetime Emmy Awards
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. It lost to ''
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project''.
The audio recording of the special won the Grammy for
Best Comedy Album
The Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album is presented by the 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 then from 2004 to presen ...
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 b ...
.
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 concert films
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