It's Bad for Ya

It's Bad for Ya is the 14th and final HBO stand-up comedy special by stand-up comedian George Carlin. It was televised live on March 1, 2008 on HBO, less than four months before he died of heart failure.^[2]

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

It's Bad For Ya received the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, awarded posthumously.^[3]

Track listing

1. "Opening"
2. "Old Fuck"
3. "Goin' Through My Address Book"
4. "Things We Say When People Die"
5. "He's Smiling Down"
6. "Parents in Hell"
7. "People Refuse To Be Realistic"
8. "Dead Parents Helping"
9. "A Couple of Other Questions"
10. "Today's Professional Parents"
11. "The Self-Esteem Movement"
12. "Every Child is Special"
13. "Children Are Our Future"
14. "Raisin' a Child is Not Difficult"
15. "I Like People"
16. "Stupid Bullshit"
17. "Stupid Bullshit On The Phone"
18. "What a Phone Call Should Be"
19. "In a Coma"
20. "Their Kids!"
21. "They Want to Show You the Pictures"
22. "Just Enough Bullshit"
23. "No One Questions Things"
24. "Proud to Be an American"
25. "God Bless America"
26. "Takin' Off Yer Hat"
27. "Swearing on the Bible"
28. "You Have No Rights"

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. 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.

Charts

References

External links

• George Carlin's Official Website
• Program Detail at HBO
• George Carlin: It's Bad for Ya at the Internet Movie Database