George Carlin: Doin' It Again (1990) (TV)

Director:

Rocco Urbisci

Writer:

George Carlin

Release Date:

23 March 1990 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

George Carlin brings his comedy back to New Jersey and this time talks about Offensive Language, Euphemisms...

Plot Keywords:

Stand Up | Sexual Joke | Pun | Old Man | Joke

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

George Carlin	...	Himself
Rocco Urbisci	...	Interviewer (uncredited)

Directed by
Rocco Urbisci

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
George Carlin

Produced by
Brenda Carlin	....	executive producer
George Carlin	....	executive producer
Lynne D'Ambrosio	....	producer
Jerry Hamza	....	producer
Suzanne Harold	....	producer
Michael Hoffman	....	producer
Kimber Rickabaugh	....	producer
Ellen Silva	....	producer
Rocco Urbisci	....	executive producer

Original Music by
George Carlin
Ros Davis

Film Editing by
Richard 'Jake' Jacobson
Edward Smith

Production Design by
Bruce Ryan

Art Direction by
Mitch Gill

Makeup Department
Frances A. Kolar	....	makeup designer

Production Management
Bob Livengood	....	production manager

Sound Department
Mike Cunningham	....	utility sound
Terry Kulchar	....	sound mixer
Jim Parente	....	utility sound
Victor Smith	....	utility sound
Jan Stieff	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
John Burdick	....	camera operator
Bill Lance	....	video tape operator
Joe Puthoff	....	camera operator
Hector Ramirez	....	camera operator
George Riesenberger	....	lighting designer
Fred Roth	....	camera operator

Other crew
Terry Adams	....	supervisor
Stuart Allen	....	technician
Doug Barry	....	video
Kim Bromley	....	unspecified assistant
Ellen Brown	....	associate director
George Carlin	....	executive album producer
Gene Crowe	....	technical director
Frank Lewis	....	crew
Bill Murillo	....	crew
Nancy Nash	....	assistant to producers
Rose Riggins	....	stage manager

Thanks
Bill Lutz	....	special thanks
William Wright	....	special thanks

Distributors

• Home Box Office (HBO) (1990) (USA) (TV)
• MPI Home Video (????) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

Quotes:

George Carlin:We have no more stupid people in this country. Everybody has a "learning disorder". Or he's "minimally exceptional".
[laughter]
George Carlin:Imagine being told that about your child. "He's minimally exceptional." Oh, thank God for that.

Movie Connections:

Featured in 11th Annual the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor: George Carlin (2008) (TV)

Comic Genius.

Only George Carlin could create entire dissertations based on completely surreal situations concocted in his (self-proclaimed) sick mind. Only George Carlin could get away with talking about the issues he tackles and addressing the fact that we the listener, the audience, get offended much too easily -- that we're offense prone.

Carlin talks about the Words that Speak the Truth. Language is big with Carlin and he uses it like swords to attack his audience to not only extract the laughs but to shoot them with what's real and what's not; what we mean to say when we say what we mean. Addressing the uses of "words you can't call people" he expertly spews forth a barrage of epithets, which only make us more aware that we may be a little more racist than we would like to think ourselves as. The same time he talks about how our own language has evolved over the years: what once we called trailer homes, now we call mobile homes, partly-cloudy has become partly-sunny, cripples become physically challenged.

It's sometimes hard to laugh at Carlin. There are moments when instead of laughing, you stop and think: because he's saying the truth, and the truth "ain't pretty". The uncomfortable situations we find ourselves in, the ease in which one can offend feminists, the hilarity of rape (and the possibility that one day, instead of being called "rape victims" they will be names "involuntary sperm recipient" makes our use of political correctness questionable. Carlin has no limits and knows it. And boy, is it an event to watch him regurgitate his furious observations. You gotta love someone this crotchety who sees things in a particular way and who dares to "go there" where most comedians, even the hardcore ones, would not.