Ten-disc set includes rare performance footage

A mammoth collection of George Carlin material is to be released next month to mark the tenth anniversary of his death.

The George Carlin Commemorative Collection features all 14 of his HBO specials, from 1997’s On Location to 2008’s It’s Bad For Ya.

The ten-disc box set also includes more than five hours of previously unreleased bonus material including rare performance footage from his personal archive.

George Carlin’s daughter, Kelly, who helped compile the collection, said: ‘While digging around in dad’s stuff, we found a few gems that we just couldn’t keep for ourselves. It’s amazing to think that ten years after his death, we keep finding stuff I’d never seen before.’

That bonus material includes:

• Carlin’s first stand-up special from 1973, The Real George Carlin, which has not been seen since it first aired. 
• APT 2C, a never-aired HBO pilot from the 1980s
• Previously unreleased material from the 1960s, when Carlin was a clean-cut guest on the likes of The Jackie Gleason Show and Hollywood Palace.
• I Kinda Like It When A Lotta People Die, a posthumous album that included a home recording made in 1957 and a special taped in Las Vegas in September 2001 that was shelved due to the September 11 attacks.

The George Carlin Commemorative Collection will be released in the US on June 12 with a list price of $100, although it is not yet available from UK-based websites.

 Carlin died at the age of 71 on June 22, 2008.

The full contents of the new collection are:

Disc 1: On Location With George Carlin and  George Carlin Again!

Disc 2: Carlin at Carnegie; Carlin On Campus and  Playin’ With Your Head

Disc 3: What Am I Doing In New Jersey?;  Doin’ It Again; Jammin’ In New York

Disc 4: Back In Town; George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy; You Are All Diseased

Disc 5: Complaints & Grievances; Life Is Worth Losing; It’s Bad for Ya

Disc 6: Bonus George Carlin appearances from Playboy Penthouse (1961); CBS Talent Scouts (1973); The Hollywood Palace (1966); The Jackie Gleason Show (1969); The Real George Carlin; Apt 2C; George Carlin Personal Favorites

Disc 7: George Carlin Appearance from The Comedy Store (1999); George’s Best Stuff

Disc 8: George On George; George Carlin Appearance from Comedy Magic Club (2006); George Carlin: Too Hip for the Room

Disc 9: I Kinda Like it When a Lotta People Die CD

Disc 10: Blu-Ray versions of Life Is Worth Losing; It’s Bad for Ya Blu-Ray

Published: 15 May 2018