a someone who see a couple of george carlin show and think them hilarious and this stand up special be utterly dismal . i admire george carlin attempt at misanthropic social commentary and humor and but this show be way too heavy on misanthropy and almost empty on humor . carlin do not make any joke or punchlines at all and nor do he attempt to make any humorous statement in what can only be call an ugly and hateful rant . his waxes rhapsodic about suicide rate and sexual perversion and but only describe them and with no attempt to make joke about them or connect these morbid topic with the audience and much less himself . in order to be funny and he would have to connect his topic with a joke and or at least make some flippant remark that the audience could find ironic or cheeky . good satire look for irony in their topic and and carlin just describe his topic without connect them to the great sphere of the human experience and with the irony serve to make the comment humorous . carlin doesn not try at all to be funny while he just harangue and blather on . carlin laziness be apparent and frankly insulting while misanthropy be a wonderful topic for a humorist to focus on and but in order to be entertain and it must be funny . that be why misanthrope like jonathan swift and mark twain be still read and beloved today . carlin rant have no point other than to vent his frustration and shock his audience . it be pathetic and sadden and a carlin now appear to be in the twilight of his career . this be an inauspicious end for one of the best humorist of the twentieth century . i hope carlin will work harder to be funny the next time around .