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Released
  
July 29, 2008

Length
  
67:00

Initial release
  
2008

Produced by
  
George Carlin

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IMDb

78%
Rotten Tomatoes

Genre
  
Comedy

Label
  
Eardrum/Atlantic

Director
  
Rocco Urbisci

Cast
  
George Carlin

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Recorded
  
March 1, 2008, Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, California

It's Bad for Ya (2008)
  
I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die (2016)

Executive producers
  
George Carlin, Rocco Urbisci, Jerry Hamza, Kimber Rickabaugh

Nominations
  
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special

Similar
  
Life Is Worth Losing, George Carlin: Again!, George Carlin: You are All Di, George Carlin: Doin' It A, George Carlin: Complain

It's Bad for Ya is the 19th and final album, and 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 at age 71.

Contents

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, 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.

Track listing

  1. "Opening" – 1:30
  2. "Old Fuck" – 3:45
  3. "Goin' Through My Address Book" – 2:52
  4. "Things We Say When People Die" – 2:36
  5. "He's Smiling Down" – 2:11
  6. "Parents in Hell" – 1:08
  7. "People Refuse to Be Realistic" – 1:10
  8. "Dead Parents Helping" – 3:59
  9. "A Couple of Other Questions" – 1:04
  10. "Today's Professional Parents" – 5:48
  11. "The Self-Esteem Movement" – 1:16
  12. "Every Child Is Special" – 1:42
  13. "Children Are Our Future" – 0:39
  14. "Raisin' a Child Is Not Difficult" – 0:42
  15. "I Like People" – 0:51
  16. "Stupid Bullshit" – 3:12
  17. "Stupid Bullshit on the Phone" – 2:33
  18. "What a Phone Call Should Be" – 0:54
  19. "In a Coma" – 0:49
  20. "Their Kids!" – 1:09
  21. "They Want to Show You the Pictures" – 4:29
  22. "Just Enough Bullshit" – 1:33
  23. "No One Questions Things" – 2:55
  24. "Proud to Be an American" – 1:47
  25. "God Bless America" – 2:59
  26. "Takin' Off Yer Hat" – 3:04
  27. "Swearing on the Bible" – 4:23
  28. "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. 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.

References

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