Performing at the Celebrity Star Theater in Phoenix on July 23, 1978 stand-up comedian George Carlin mesmerizes his audience in the second of his HBO specials. George Carlin’s Again video was released on DVD in 2001. The stand-up comedy show was originally planned as part of a concert/sketch movie, The Illustrated George Carlin, that never came out.
Again video is also known as On Location: George Carlin in Phoenix. The stand-up comedy video includes the routines: Death, Kids and Parents, Newscast #2, Time and Al Sleet, the Hippy-Dippy Weatherman.
Stand-up comedian George Carlin’s Again video finds the intelligent and passionate comic performing on many vital issues of the day. What, for example, do restaurants do with the rest of a frog after cooking its legs? Who empties the coins out of wishing wells? In Again video, stand-up comedian George Carlin also takes a detour into pop philosophy to the delight of his Phoenix audience. In his stand-up comedy video Again, he takes a look at our relationship with time and death.
George Carlin’s two most famous early routines in Again video are about Al Sleet – the Hippy-Dippy Weatherman and The Seven Dirty Words which you can not say on TV, according to the American law. When talking about the Hippy-Dippy Weatherman Al Sleet, he gets nostalgic and explains why the weatherman decided to end his career. George Carlin’s impersonation of Al Sleet is totally hilarious and it will have you on stitches.
George Carlin was an absolute genius when his stand-up comedy video Again focused on the use of language, as he does in other routines. He has a gift on dissecting meanings and usages of language, mostly when he talks about the most simple and common every day word. The Seven Dirty Words section is clearly the shining moment in Again video. The stand-up comedian talks about the seven words which law forbids to be used on television. With his witty humor, he manages to explain the absurdity of this prohibition and why some words should not even be in the list in the first place.
Watch George Carlin: Again video, also known as On Location: George Carlin in Phoenix so you can see stand-up comedy at its best. This is one of stand-up comedian George Carlin’s first stand-up comedy concerts and his genius was at his best. He is passionate, intelligent and perspicacious. It will be very fun to rediscover the talent who was George Carlin, so the Again video is a must for your collection- it is a classic!