A favorite performance of stand-up comedian George Carlin, this comedic bit on Death & Dying, includes the well-known “2-minute Warning.”
Carlin takes on a hilarious journey from the unpleasantness of “getting dead” to how we talk about death and dying big. Performed at the Celebrity Star Theater in Phoenix on July 23, 1978, George Carlin mesmerizes his audience in his second HBO special. The show was originally planned as part of a concert/sketch movie, The Illustrated George Carlin, that never came to fruition.
The routines include: Death, Kids & Parents, Newscast #2, Time and Al Sleet, the Hippy-Dippy Weatherman.
Stream the full special here: https://tubitv.com/movies/503540/geor…
George Carlin described his comedy as focusing on 3 things: love of language and how we use it; the small things, moments we all share as humans; and the big topics of our culture—war, death, children, religion, etc. A social commentator, he challenged conventional wisdom and brought us face-to-face with our ingrained hypocrisies. There was no topic off limits to his keen observation, wordplay, goofy jabs and rants, whether it was drugs, war, politics, the accumulation of stuff or the way in which we use words.
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