Customer Reviews:
TWO GREAT SETS FROM THE HILARIOUS GEORGE CARLIN!.......2007-06-24
I'm glad I picked this up when I could,it is now out of print and this is some great stuff here! This plus the two earlier box sets complete the older Carlin stuff,but I think George is just getting better with age.
PLEASE REISSUE THIS DVD!.......2006-01-10
For anyone that has only the two Carlin DVD box sets available:
1) The George Carlin Collection (the first 4 specials 1977-1984)
2) Completely Carlin (the other specials 1986, 1988, 1996, & 1999 specials)
you need this set to complete your Carlin video collection. I hope this DVD set gets reissued soon. Or at least have "Jammin' In NY" (1992) released as a stand-alone set since "Doin' It Again" (1990) is now available on DVD by itself.
The Turning Point.......2004-07-20
One aspect of "Jammin' In New York" which I noticed (and am probably the only one to do so) as a turning point has to do with the quality of Mr. Carlin's voice. In the years leading up to this special, that particular instrument of his had a certain quality that more or less sustained itself, good times and bad, even as his act became more strident and pointed. But "Jammin'" would be the last time his voice would maintain that quality. By the time of his 1996 "Back In Town" show, his voice would become more gravelly, coarse and ravaged (probably the combination of age and the parts of his routines where he'd scream at the top of his lungs). Back to "Jammin'," though: I especially appreciated his routine on the inanity of airplane announcements, and his advocating the use of land currently taken up with golf courses and cemeteries to house the homeless (I grew up near a golf course in Pennsylvania, so I share his sentiments in that regard). And his airplane routine was a vast improvement over that on his 1977 "On Location" program.
Not what I expected.......2004-03-17
I watched part of Robin Williams' Live on Broadway, got dizzy, loved the vulgarity and bought the DVD as my silent $17 protest against decency. A few days ago I read Carlin's reaction to the current onslaught of decency and decided to check him out. I thought he was great. One problem. From the date given for the show (Jammin') and everything I could read about it, I was/am sure Carlin was talking about poppa Bush. Yet I KNOW he named Dick Cheyney and Colin Powell. Huh? Regardless (though it bugs me), he was dead-on when he said if the government says it, don't believe it. Not even the FDA. And the reviewers who say politics and humor don't mix (Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde sure didn't say it!) just got cut a little close to the nerve. I wish (did he?) he'd do something current (as Tom Lehrer said, that's like asking a citizen of Pompeii to say something amusing about lava). Like about all the little uglies with their little axes running about like Carrie Nation screaming things like "the sanctity of marriage" (they don't mean sanctimonious, by any chance) and "tradition" and generally trying to run the lives of everyone they can. I'd love to see what he'd do with that! George Carlin was nothing like what I'd expected, instead he was more so, and I thought his numbers on similarities, euphemisms and the first bit on words (pomposity of expressions) were a riot. But I squirmed when he said "fruit." Ain't nothin' sacred! Yet when I asked a friend of mine how he'd feel if Howard Stern talked that way about his own girlfriend, he said he'd feel "proud." Iconoclasm and lots of it!
Misleading title.......2002-05-12
First of all, this is some of the best Carlin stuff. The only comment I have is that the title was misleading to me: one of the shows is called "Doin' it Again". Since this title is not on CD, I though that it was something I did not have. After receiving the DVD, it turned out that it was another name for the CD "Parental Advisory - Explicit Lyrics". Nevertheless, fantastic comedy...
Amazon.com
"My job is thinking about goofy sh--," declares George Carlin, the ever-reflective absurdist and star of George Carlin Again. The second in Carlin's long string of HBO specials since 1977, Again (1978) finds the once buttoned-down comic performing in the round and musing, as is his wont, on many vital issues of the day. What, for example, do restaurants do with the rest of a frog after cooking its legs? Who empties the coins out of wishing wells? To the delight of his Phoenix audience, Carlin also takes a detour into pop philosophy with a look at our relationship with time ("There is no 'now.' It could be the middle of last month for all we know.") and death ("Everybody gets a two-minute warning. Try to use yours to die big."). Oddly, a nostalgic reprise of the Hippie-Dippie Weatherman from Carlin's early career falls flat; the comedian senses it and segues into a more trenchant and daring bit about dirty words and American law. This is not a monologue for the faint of heart, but Carlin fanatics will be pleased. --Tom Keogh
Description
Winner of the 1990 CableACE Awards Doin' It Again is George Carlin's seventh live stand-up concert for HBO, taped at The State Theater in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1990. In Doin' It Again, the minutiae of everyday life is up for Carlin's hilarious interpretation as he takes on the best of the worst in all of us. From embarrassing underwear situations to people who announce their bathroom activities, nothing escapes this comedic veteran's watchful eye. Cancer, rape, stupid people, dogs, organ donor programs, when toilet paper became bathroom tissue, "pulling the plug," and offensive language all receives Carlin's special treatment in this uproarious performance.
Customer Reviews:
Another Anti Gov't.......2007-01-10
WellGeorge was awesome when he first came out not he just seems like a pist off old man
Great.......2006-12-29
This was awesome I know that's very unelaborate but the material on here is probably the best i've ever heard from any comedian not George's best but it's in the top 5 and brilliant none the less.
I saw this on Cable last night and had to buy it.......2003-11-21
I was clicking through the channels last night at around 1 AM and happened upon this on HBO. I could not stop laughing! I'm surprised I didn't wake my wife up who was sleeping upstairs. I thought this was such an excellent show that I had to buy it to show my wife. I know I will want to see this over and over. I know she'll love it too. This is a brilliant, articulate man. He tells us about the bizarre and hillarious things that he thinks about during the day.
Ignore the other review here. This one was great!!.......2001-12-17
I think this IS one of Carlin's finer shows. The beginning is outrageous as Carlin explains the language he will not be using for the show, and the routine that follows ("Life's Little Moments") had me in stitches for weeks especially when he describes shaking hands with someone who's missing a few fingers. Carlin goes on to one of his many routines about dogs, expresses his thoughts on cancer, talks about stupid people, the humorous side of rape, feminists, blowjobs, prostitution, his good ideas (Including the Sony S***man), things we never see or hear, things we don't want to hear, organ donor programs, comatose, and ends with a tight discussion on words and euphemisms. All the while making his traditional goofy faces and voices which just add to the laughs. This is a very entertaining special and comes recommended.
Though a great comedian, this is hardly Carlin's best.......1998-10-31
Carlin's work generally reflects his anxiety with society and the shortcomings of the outside world. This performance does not represent his best work nor does it compare with any of his other presentations. I rate this far below most of his other shows. END
DVD:
- Gilbert & Sullivan - Master Collection (Opera World)
- Going All the Way
- Good Night, and Good Luck (Widescreen Edition)
- Gun Shy & Miami Rhapsody (2pc)
- Hello Again Everybody: The Harry Caray Story
- Hillbillys in a Haunted House
- I Love Big Machines
- Indiscreet
- IRANgeles
- Just One Night
DVD
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George Carlin - Complaints and Grievances
Completely Carlin
The George Carlin Collection
George Carlin: At Carnegie Hall
George Carlin - Life Is Worth Losing
