This is late Life Carlin at his most raw; darker content here delivered with the undertone of anger that showed in his writing and his shows after his first wife died. It is almost like that sore never healed. This special is filled with the same great observational style George could always be counted on to deliver, though here it came with a definite bite. This special really felt like there was a message here of "wake up before it's too late", though the tone smacks of "I think it already is too late and it makes me angry". As much as Carlin spouted that he thought humans were inherently a doomed species he seemed to be forever attempting to save us from ourselves. I miss his biting sarcasm as the chaser to his insightful observations of our sacred cows; he saw them all for what they are, illusions created and cultivated to keep the monster under the bed at bay.

A great way to inform the masses through "comedy." What a brillant man. Thank you for your service George. RIP

It’s extremely annoying that they stretched the video to fit a modern widescreen presentation. 1 star.

Retrospectively in 2021, the one two punch of talking terrorism and germs to open the show quickly makes this a not-comedy, Rorschach Test.

I love me some George Carlin but I'm simply not in the mood for any anti-vax rhetoric at the moment. If Carlin thinks swimming in sewage can keep you from getting polio, then that is his right, but now is not the moment to spread that disinformation.

Shame on Amazon for airing this.

Nightingale did not fully subscribe to the idea that many diseases are caused by specific micro-organisms known as germs until she was in her sixties, in the 1880s, she was well aware of the importance of hand washing. In her book Notes on Nursing (1860), she wrote that:
Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.
During the Crimean War (1853-1856) Nightingale had implemented hand washing and other hygiene practices in British army hospitals. This was relatively new advice, first publicized by Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis in the 1840s, who had observed the dramatic difference it made to death rates on maternity wards.
Science matters. I had never seen this ignorant rant till now. Amazing someone thought it was a bright idea to republish it now that we have cultists in such prominent places.

I like reading through the negative, "woke", reviews that seem to be encountering Carlin for the first time. They always take one routine as an affront to their own ideologies and count the rest as left/right propaganda.

Two things should be observed, though: Carlin made jokes that were offensive to every demographic--you are not special--and late career he turned to dark humor that highlighted how messed up the world really is. That said, Carlin was NOT anti-vax; he was very much pro-science, pro-choice, logic-driven, and anti-ESTABLISHMENT. You can gather throughout his routines and interviews that he was very much about "you doing you" but not expecting "others to do you, too".

True it’s a bit of a rant but Carlin is brilliant and makes incredibly prescient observations. It’s like he foresaw our current predicament with Covid and the general fragility that has weakened us as a country and a species. If he were alive he would be an outspoken critic of the hysteria over what is basically a bad cold, and the terrible ramifications of the media and government response. We need a George Carlin right now, he is sorely missed.

If you think this masterpiece is not a 10 out of 10, YOU ARE WRONG. if you think George Carlin is not the greatest comedian of our generation, YOU ARE WRONG. if you think there will be another man that spits truth and wisdom like hot lava but disguised as jokes, YOU ARE WRONG.

Geroge Carlin is not just a comedian, he is a philosopher, a poet, a true humanist. his work is timeless, and his work will forever be remembered as the greatest "comedy specials" by those who still valued free-thinking as Humanity's most valuable trait.