This stand-up comedy DVD, Jammin’ In New York is George Carlin at the top of his form, something you will not get again until his Life Is Worth Losing some fifteen years later. This, however, is just a set-up for the closing number where he rips people and their habits apart. Here, Carlin uses his observational skills to bring people together by pointing out what we all have in common. Included are his takes on government and society in general. This tape is of a performance in New York City. Little Things We Share, the second cut on this stand-up comedy DVD is also very funny. This video presents comedian George Carlin at his best, before a live and appreciative audience. In later years, Carlin is vicious but a lot of it sound and fury signifying nothing and you get the feeling he is just going through the motions his audience expects, on Jammin’ In New York the comic actually put thought behind the words and commentary. Both Golf Courses for the Homeless and The Planet Is Fine (The People Are Screwed) are vicious but intelligent and thoughtful attacks on modern society and humanity. When George Carlin is asked which HBO concert is his favorite, his answer is always, 'Jammin in New York.' the reasons are several: It was his first HBO show done live it was the first he had done in his hometown, New York City and it was the largest audience he had ever worked before: 6,500. It is on this stand-up comedy DVD and live HBO performance that this stand-up comic is at his most socially relevant. George Carlin is not kidding when he says “we’re a war like country” on this stand-up comedy DVD. You know Carlin is talking about the first Iraq war and George Bush senior but it also applies to the current war in Iraq and George Bush junior as well as Dick Cheney.
The really scary thing about George Carlin Jammin’ In New York is how still a propos its opening number, Rockets and Penises in the Persian Gulf, is.
Jammin’ In New York also includes the best comedy bit about the uselessness of golf ever. It was the first live on HBO George Carlin performance, it features some of this veteran and sometimes genius stand-up comic’s best comedy material ever, and also includes one of George Carlin’s longest set pieces, Airline Announcements, where the comic uses his sharp observational skills, his love of words, and his hatred for artificial language. George Carlin Jammin’ In New York is an exceptional stand-up comedy DVD in many ways.
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