George Carlin: Jammin' in New York.
Original HBO airdate: March 11, 1992.
Written by and starring George Carlin
Director: Rocco Urbisci
Available at Amazon.
George Carlin returns to his hometown just a year or so after the end of the first Persian Gulf War, which he kicks off this program with a lengthy monologue about said war, along with the realization that war is just a game played between sexually inadequate politicians using weapons to compensate for their shortcomings. Also on the agenda: bizarre human behavior that we all seem to exhibit, the inanity of airline announcements, environmental issues, and a Carlin favorite, a long rant about human inequality using golf courses as the primary sign of the haves being much better than the have nots. What's Carlin's suggestion? Give the golf courses to the homeless.
This is probably Carlin's best HBO special, and he himself said it was his personal favorite performance. Highly recommended.
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