George Carlin: All My Stuff
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This 14-disc career retrospective set includes all twelve of George Carlin s HBO concert specials, spanning nearly thirty years. One of the greatest comedians of our time performs all of his memorable routines including: Baseball and Football, A Place for My Stuff, Losing Things, Al Sleet the Hippie-Dippie Weather Man, Hitler, We Like War, It s Not A Sport, Why We Don't Need Ten Commandments and Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.
Two bonus discs round out this collection: an interview disc titled George on George and an exclusive 75 minute video interview with Carlin that was taped in April of 2007 as part of XM Radio s Artist Confidential series.
George Carlin: All My Stuff includes performances such as:
On Location: George Carlin At USC 77
George Carlin Again! 78
Carlin At Carnegie 82
Carlin On Campus 84
Playing With Your Head 86
What Am I Doing In New Jersey? 88
Doin It Again 90
Jammin In New York 92
Back In Town 96
You Are All Diseased 99
Complaints and Grievances 01
Life Is Worth Losing 05 |
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4.5 stars really...some of the picture quality ruins the fun : Powered by Amazon
Posted on 2008-10-29 |
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I really, really wish I could give this box a full 5 star rating, and I actually do so when only taking the quality of Carlin's material and performance into consideration, but due to the digitally deteriorated picture quality on several of these HBO specials I just can't...and I'm not being nitpicky here. I'm talking about stuff that will make your eyes sting after a while. The box itself is great as well as the bonus material, but throughout the first special as well as the third and fourth (and one or two more) there are these horizontal lines--a couple of dozens of them--occupying all of screen, and they're highyl visual and create striped blurs over the whole screen during sudden movement (the speed of movement that is required for a heavy blur to appear varies from disc to disc, but it's more obvious on close-up shots, and the first special suffers the most.) This unfortunate flaw really effects your mood while trying to concentrate on Carlin's shows...so a few of these discs have been exposed to some sort of digital over-compression, while a bit over half are just fine. Actually, on the "George on George" documentary on one of the two bonus discs, clips are shown from several of these specials, but the quality is crisp and clear, and you think to yourself "why can't the actual shows on the other discs look this great?" ...it's a shame. I own no other of Carlin's HBO shows separately, and don't know if most of the early ones suffer from this over-compression or whatever it is the way they do here, but I'm almost ready to buy one of them just to see if I can replace the discs in this set...but I suspect that these are just gathered discs of all already separately released DVD's.
...oh, and I don't think I have to explain anything about George Carlin and his stand-up for this product. He's a legend, and you know his stuff (you wouldn't be considering buying this pricey box if you weren't familiar with his comedy from before) ...I just wanted to be the first one to point out this unfortunate flaw. It's the only flaw, but it's a big one. |
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A must for true Carlin fans! : Powered by Amazon
Posted on 2008-08-02 |
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| the greatest Carlin collection of all time. frome the first dvd to the last, I laughed until I cried. the set gives the best of the 20th century's BEST comic. the thinking person's comic who used words as both weapons and humor to show the absurdity in all things in life. this walks you through George's career from 1977 til the present. I'd give it 10 stars if I could. He blazed the trail into irreverant comedy boldly and with out fear where many followed and immitated but never equalled. |
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A Great Tribute to one of the Greatest Human Beings In History : Powered by Amazon
Posted on 2008-07-29 |
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| I Will Be Saving Up to Buy this Masterpiece and I know that There will be no other man like him. Hail and Fair well George. We Loved you. |
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Thanks George : Powered by Amazon
Posted on 2008-07-05 |
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George Carlin creates a persona on stage that is difficult not to love.
In real life, He was a gentle man, but on stage he was tough as nails on our hypocrisy as people.
I just wanted the little baby who wrote about stand up blasphemy to know that as a comedian myself we are allowed to make fun of whatever we want...so get over it...maybe you can ask Jesus for that funnybone you've always wanted and never gotten.... |
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To "Uncle" George : Powered by Amazon
Posted on 2008-07-02 |
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The George Carlin Collection
I bought this set a few Christmas ago,but I knew before that it would be funny & worth it. I saw George in 1981 for about $ 10.00. He was last in Houston during Christmas 07,but I missed him cause my dad was in the hospital.
Sad to say but my dad passed away two weeks before George,but Before George passed,I caught his last HBO Special "Bad For Ya" between visits.
And He was as usual,AWESOME. I'll be in line to get the DVD of "Bad" when
it comes out.
Both the CD & First DVD collections are great.They were like the Memorial
Marathon HBO had last week. Vintage George to the present"BAD".
NO One will replace him. Good Night Uncle George |
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